Summary
Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated in his New Year’s speech that Taiwan’s “reunification” with China is inevitable.
China has escalated military activity around Taiwan, including frequent incursions near the island and sanctions on U.S.-linked companies over arms sales to Taipei.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te rejected Beijing’s claims, stating Taiwan’s future can only be decided by its people.
Lai also criticized China’s restrictions on travel and education exchanges with Taiwan, calling for dignified, reciprocal relations based on goodwill and equality.
The us would probably enter war to stop it, Taiwan is pretty valuable to us
Zero chance.
“Us” being? Taiwan didn’t send me a Christmas card.
Bet they made the processor you used to write that comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites
That’s not where they produce their cutting edge chips though… https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-will-spend-14-billion-on-manufacturing-chips-at-tsmc-report
War is necessary… so I can text grandma? Do ya’ll not hear yourselves?
More like: War is necessary… so a dictator can stroke his own ego
Remember who is the aggressor here.
The Kuomintang fought a civil war and lost, would we be okay if the Confederacy kept Florida and wouldn’t give it back?
The Confederacy retreated to Florida. Then internally the people of Florida turned it around, repealed slavery, defeated the original Confederacy government, started a new democracy and is now thriving. Nope, leave them alone.
not even comparable. Martial law for 40 years doesn’t sound like turning it around.
Did you read the article? Martial law was lifted in 1987. That’s 38 years ago.
The PRC is still under this condition today. Say the wrong things about Xinnie the Pooh and you will be disappeared, martial law or not.
How much undocumented atrocities occurred in China that you can’t even link a Wikipedia article to? And are you willing to accept what’s written about the Tiananmen Massacre on the same site that you linked to? If not, then stop linking to a site that you don’t believe in.
How would you keep the imperialists from stealing land?
Are you talking about the White Terror?
No, not even a little bit.
I’m talking about imperialists stealing land. What land was stolen by the Taiwanese during the White Terror?
For example, the Soviet Union would have stolen Finland if they could, but Finland was (still is) heavily armed and it would not have been worth the Soviets’ trouble. This is a clear example that when it comes to imperialists like the Soviet Union, the threat of war is necessary to prevent it. This isn’t about starting war. It’s about preventing it.
Is America not imperialist? Why is it not okay when they do it, but okay when we do?
Maybe imperialism is bad when anyone does it.
I never defended American Imperialism.