• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    11 months ago

    Yeah but they actually both wanted it.

    Taiwan, judging from the enormous amounts of military material it has invested in, doesn’t really want to be friends with china, let alone be conquered by it

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        There is currently one China. It just goes by the name Taiwan. The CCP is as Chinese as my local takeout.

        • Filthmontane@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          11 months ago

          You must be one of those people that can’t accept when civil wars are lost. I’m assuming you’re also waiting for the South to rise again.

          • SCB@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            11 months ago

            Yes Lost Causers are famously aware of world history. That must be it.

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              11 months ago

              If you’re aware of history, then how exactly is China not China? I must’ve missed a century somewhere

              • SCB@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                3
                ·
                11 months ago

                Read up on the resolution of the Chinese Civil War and the (nominal) government-in-exile that is Taiwan

                • Filthmontane@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  11 months ago

                  At what point has enough time gone on before Taiwan is no longer a government in exile? Maybe 5-10 years, but that war ended in 1949. If you really think China and Taiwan should fight to death to determine who’s the true ruler than I think that’s pretty fucked up. Maybe you think the US should be a British colony again? Or maybe Ukraine should be part of Russia again? At this point the CCP has controlled China longer than the Kuomintang did, so I think that means they win.

                  • SCB@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    11 months ago

                    If you really think China and Taiwan should fight to death to determine who’s the true ruler than I think that’s pretty fucked up.

                    I think Taiwan should wait out authoritarian communism’s inevitable collapse and then come to the rescue with real solutions.