• Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    2 years 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.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

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

        • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 years 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.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

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

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

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

              • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                2 years ago

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

                • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  2 years 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.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    2 years 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.