Thoughts?

Is this imperialism by China, a country which is supposed to be left-wing? Leftists are normally anti-imperialism. Wouldn’t it be better to let Taiwan democratically decide whether they want to be part of China or not?

  • stickly@lemmy.world
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    Nice, glad to see you admitting defeat. Fucking quotes from the CCP are agitprop? Give me a fucking break. Go ahead and translate those for me; you’re clearly a bastion of free and rational thinking. Oh wait, you can’t read anything but English and are arbitrarily choosing to discard sources that don’t fit your bias? Anything that runs counter to your red fanfic is a lie or a conspiracy.

    The sheer lack of basic logic is incredible. You think that the USA is sneaking in and forcing Taiwan to prepare for PRC military action? Like they’ve got a gun to these poor Taiwanese soldiers forcing them to do push ups? The people of Taiwan want them there to maintain the status quo against PRC annexation. The polls say that in no uncertain terms (as I’ve covered in other comments). Maybe they wouldn’t be so willing to jump at the USA’s aid if they didn’t have fucking PRC rockets landing all around them.

    Conversely, if the PRC held domain over Taiwan then they wouldn’t allow this interference. But they clearly don’t if Taiwan is acting independently to protect its own sovereignty. If you ignore reality by starting with “PRC owns Taiwan” then no shit your circular logic will justify any PRC action. This is insane.

    “Stop training to defend against a PRC invasion invade mainland China [with your 150k troops 😂] or we’ll invade you” is a lunatic stance when you’re preaching peaceful reunification. Is this tiny island with 1% of your population a military threat? Or is the superpower with ICBM nukes the problem? Because if so, bullying [sorry "protecting"] Taiwan does literally nothing but feed plausible excuses to the USA hegemony machine. Ignore Taiwan and go run those drills off of Hawaii if you’re dying to be a tough guy. But if they’re not doing that then they must have a different plan in mind 🤔…

    Now go ahead, it’s your turn to pick some minor point in this dead simple logic and try to counter it by citing an anonymous blog post or something…

    Also I’m still waiting for you to tell me what I denied, I don’t think eye rolling is a real answer 🙄

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      8 minutes ago

      Nice, glad to see you admitting defeat.

      The people of Taiwan want them there to maintain the status quo against PRC annexation.

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