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> ...while hopefully China's politics become more like Taiwan's. That's an utter fantasy, especially by the mechanism you propose. To be absolutely blunt: you
by tivert 2y ago
> ...while hopefully China's politics become more like Taiwan's.
That's an utter fantasy, especially by the mechanism you propose.
To be absolutely blunt: your proposal strikes me as the kind of thing a no-nothing outsider would propose, someone who has no skin in the game and would suffer none of the consequences, and whose ignorance makes a solution seem easy.
I mean, FFS, (assuming your an American) would you propose a supra-national union between the US and China with "proportional representation" (meaning China dominates the US) and a mere hope that China's politics become "more like" democracy?
- worstspotgain 2y agoUh, no. As I said up top, I didn't come up with the idea: In the 2000 presidential election, independent candidate James Soon proposed a European Union-style relation with mainland China (this was echoed by Hsu Hsin-liang in 2004) along with a non-aggression pact. In the 2004 presidential election, Lien Chan proposed a confederation-style relationship. [1] It seems to me that maybe your dismissal of the CCP making concessions towards unification in general fits the notion of a "know-nothing outsider" much more than what I wrote. Both China and Taiwan have long held that there is only "One China" and that they eventually belong together. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_unification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_unification