cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/49224731
China’s ambassador to Australia has urged Canberra to prepare for dealing with a “reunified China”, declaring Chinese people “will not forgive” countries that seek to obstruct Beijing’s push to bring Taiwan under its control.
In remarks that frame reunification as inevitable and resistance as unforgivable, Xiao Qian likened Taiwan’s status to that of Tasmania and warned that any attempt of “compromising or openly distorting” Beijing’s one-China principle would constitute a retreat from prior commitments and erode trust.
He said Australia could not keep reaping the benefits of trade with China while seeking to block reunification, signalling economic consequences for resisting Beijing’s aims.
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Mr Xiao also lashed a recent [Australian] Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade statement that described China’s military and coast guard drills around Taiwan as “deeply concerning, destabilising and risk inflaming regional tensions”, and reiterated that Canberra opposed any unilateral attempt to change the status quo.
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He also cautioned governments, including Australia’s, against pursuing dialogue on Taiwan unless they were committed to reunification.
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The arm of the Chinese state tasked with annexing Taiwan posting images showing Taiwanese as vermin to be exterminated is “scraping small things”.
I don’t want US involvement in Taiwan, I want Taiwan and China to have better relations on the basis that there’s two countries on opposite sides of the Taiwan Strait. I don’t want yanks like you to benefit from war in Asia-Pacific.
Most Taiwanese I talk to want the same, but have to swallow sending money to the US for weapons in order to keep their way of life.
China could pull back on the ultimatum of annexation and allow those relations to flourish, instead it is ratcheting up the tension through drills simulating blockading Taiwan and starving it’s population into submission (against UN Charter but we don’t care about that in tankie land if China does it), and bombing dense population centres.
Edit: also where did you get that map lmao? Looks like it’s from the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis which is in the fucking 50s
Yes, choosing to editorialize a few small images on a poster as depicting the Han Chinese in Taiwan as vermin to be exterminated, when there is 50 years of diplomatic evidence that this is not the perspective of the Chinese government. Yes. You are scraping.
You’re too educated to be this ignorant. I have to assume you’re being totally disingenuous.
The US got involved in Taiwan to punish China when China decided to support the Korean people trying to push the US imperialists off the peninsula. When the US got involved, they supported the 40 year white terror. The white terror involved purging the island of entire families where anyone even mentioned maybe rejoining the mainland and ending the civil war. 40 fucking years of violent fascist repression while the US built up its imperial military logistics and infrastructure in its psychotic quest to violent destroy communism in China.
The island’s current “way of life” is only about 30 years old at this. Democratic reforms were introduced at the same time they were introduced in Hong Kong. That’s not a coincidence. But more importantly, that democratic transition happened with the US military already fully integrated into the society. The idea that they are somehow forced to buy weapons to maintain their way of life is totally disingenuous. They were buying weapons long before they abandoned overt violent fascism and the only reason China is threatening violence is literally because of foreign military interference. Again, China has been consistent on that for 50 years.
China’s recent escalations of the preparation of force can be explained in two ways: 1) they just decided after 50 years to finally just get violent because they’re irrational fascists or 2) the material threat to national security has gotten worse.
Given ALL the evidence that we have available to us, from Afghanistan to Libya to Somalia to Iran to Nigeria to Venezuela, do we genuinely think that the national security threat from the US is not at the highest it’s been since the 1950s?
And yes, the image I provided is older. I don’t have an updated map of all US military threats and strategic positions in Taiwan. That’s sort of irrelevant though, as the US has only continuously increased its military investment in Taiwan.
There’s no reason for Taiwan to peacefully unify with China.
Taiwan is incredibly rich, Taiwanese enjoy a stable welfare state that would make even the Nordics jealous. They can govern themselves and manage their national budget, which through the TSMC golden goose, is pretty fat.
Culturally, China is way behind. Look at the KTV songs and the “classic movies” in the Sinosphere, they’re most likely all from Taiwan.
A lot of Taiwanese look at Chinese modern culture, way of life, mannerisms and think it’s quite tacky.
So yeah, all in all, the only reason Taiwan would join China is to get protected from what China would do if it doesn’t. It’s equally imperialist
Kinda wish there was more real discussion and less propaganda/aislop.
Y’all are boring, can’t even tell you apart without reading your username every time.