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Last I checked, Taiwan is not a territory or state of the United States. Why should some kid from Kansas pick up a rifle for Taiwan?
by ecshafer 3y ago
Last I checked, Taiwan is not a territory or state of the United States. Why should some kid from Kansas pick up a rifle for Taiwan?
- jcranmer 3y agoThe same reason several kids from Kansas picked up a rifle for France.
- sofixa 3y agoThe difference being that France was an internationally recognised independent and sovereign country that was occupied by a foreign one. Taiwan is drastically more complex, and de jure doesn't exist, being the loser of the Chinese Civil war, with both sides still claiming to be the one and only China (thus only one can be recognised at a time). De facto it is for all intents and purposes an independent sovereign country, but China would never allow that prestige blow (they won the Civil war, for them that means all of China, no exceptions, leaving the losers take a part of China away would be a big loss). For an American to imagine it, imagine the Confederates running away to Hawai and assimilating the locals, continuing to claim they're the legitimate government of the USA (to be fair historically they never did that, but imagine), and surviving for decades with no international recognition/trade/etc. outside of China/Russia. The US had every right to come to the help of France. Taiwan.. is more complicated, as far as international law is concerned.
- tptacek 3y agoI'm not at all confident about international law, but I'm quite confident that international law had very little to do with why kids from Kansas picked up rifles to fight for France.
- ecshafer 3y agoBecause Germany declared war against the United States after their ally Japan attacked the United States? The us wasn’t the aggressor in that situation, and did not get involved when Germany invaded France.