China should abandon threats against Taiwan, US diplomat says.

Agreed, while we’re at it let’s include Russia and N. Korea. Hey everybody, cut that shit out!

Sure, but since 70 years, one particular country seems to make threats and execute them. The other does not.

The world doesn't revolve around the fkn USA, China, or Russia. Every nation has their own self determination and isn't motivated by being a pawn of some hegemon. Mark Carney's speech was so good man...

I meant what I said.

As a Taiwanese, I'd like to live without the threat of a foreign neighbouring authoritarian government threatening our way of life.

The Strait of Taiwan's the more important factor here. If China takes Taiwan they basically open the seas to their navy.

The US cared about Taiwan long before it made semiconductors. Your comment makes no sense. Learn history.

The US protected Taiwan long before it made semiconductors.

Wrong. At least read the wikipedia page about Taiwan instead of responding in complete ignorance.

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Nules are very threatening

Plot twist: Trump launches surprise invasion of NK.

ironic as there’s only one country that deployed ~~nuclear~~ atomic bombs against another

The Ottoman Empire

Honestly, that’s impressive. Dude has made 1500+ comments in 25 days.

I already pay taxes and I also work as an engineer designing military equipment for the US, NATO, Ukraine and Israel. I'm doing my part.

Okay and when was the last time DPP went to war???? Also what nonsense are you talking about... DPP arrested KMT after failing to overturn election results? You are just making things up.

Is that why the LDP which traces its roots back to actual war criminals has been in power for 70 years? Every long lasting modern PM was ultra nationalist with annual visits to a shrine of war criminals, denies history and pursuing territorial claims against all of its neighbors. Also lineage to imperial Japan matters as over half of LDP including all recent PMs were part of Nippon Kaigi, a group who quite literally wants to restore imperial Japan. And I actually fully agree it’s a good thing that Korea’s institutions were strong enough to push back against an attempted coup from a desperate far right party(which still support the previous president and calling on Trump to reverse it). Point I made is out of everyone in Korea, there’s no party more authoritarian than rabidly pro-American PPP party. In Taiwan, that’s how democracy work. If 60% of the population disagrees with you, the response is not to call them traitors, attempt to overturn election results, arrest leaders of the opposition. Official DPP accounts fully support and congrats Yoon back in Korea of purging parliament of “pro communist” opposition through a coup. That is not democracy. It is fully reasonable to call DPP a populist facist party. Of course China would be better off as a plural democracy instead of a CCP one party state, but you cannot tell me that the other right wing parties in east Asia aren’t authoritarian.

isn't that evil

No, because this was territory lost when China was weak and divided by foreign powers. Taiwan was a part of China and was taken away by Japan. It's why China and Taiwan have the same claims in the South China sea. If the CCP's claim to rejuvenation is the restoration of a strong united China, you can't really have its more painful reminder looking right at them across from Xiamen. Even when the Chinese have given up territory post 1949 (like with Outer Mongolia), it was always done in a position of strength in which it volitionally chose to give up the territory. It never chose to give up Taiwan.

It’s not really rewrote by CCP. It’s way more complicated than people give credit to it. CCP originally had a stance that Taiwan should be freed from imperial Japan and allowed self determination. Now this in reality meant a Soviet style federation under either communist china or a communist international. ROC who was in power at the time argued that Taiwan is part of Chinese territory. As WW2 progressed basically all the allies and Soviet Union adopted RoC’s view on Taiwan, culminating in the yelta declaration. This then becomes an issue of legitimacy for CCP as it is still in an unfinished civil war and allowing Taiwan independence would be viewed as losing Chinese territory echoing the century of humiliation which is unacceptable politically. So no CCP can’t just randomly change people’s view on Taiwan. Especially because a lot of peoples great grand parents fought the Japanese under the KMT as well

It didn’t come under China during Qing. Qing reunified it by the Kangxi Emperor. And in fact it was a very similar story. Remnants from the Ming dynasty, the one that preceded the Qing, went to Taiwan and maintained de facto independence for decades. Before Kangxi Emperor reunified it.

Mongolia and the Sino-Russian borders were settled by treaty, and not a serious point of contention for the CCP. Taiwan is unfinished business from the civil war considering the ROC fled there. Mao was unable to follow up because of lack of naval capability, not for lack of trying/desire. Afterwards when the CCP did start building ships, the US essentially threatened intervention. So you have a foreign power dictating what Chinese people considered a civil war - and a domestic affair. So from the perspective of the CCP, this is a continuation of foreign colonial power intervention e.g century of humiliation and an unfinished civil war.

Saying that various parts of modern nation-states only came together in the last several hundred years is not a winning argument for any modern country. What did Italy or Germany or Spain or the United States look like a few hundred years ago? And regarding Mongolia or various parts of Russia, just wait. They're coming for it.

Yep but it doesn't really work that way in the Chinese history's eyes. Once some place has been added to china it cant ever be not a part of China. If we were talk about history the Han Chinese is really only around the yellow river valley. The rest of China is basically "Hanified" throughout the millennium and is now considered a legitimate part of the China. And yes China is making moves to take the russian regions that was Chinese holdings in the last couple of years. Its not really reported since it doesnt really fit the 'friendly' outward appearance of the two. Less so for Mongolia since there is less reason to take it outright and its a part of Yuan dynasty which is Mongol and not really Han Chinese.

An unfinished civil war isn't imperialism. What Israel is doing by invading and annexing Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank is imperialism.

But you see China is not The West (tm) so it's just sparking assimilation and that's a-ok /s

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Austronesian expansion has been found to have originated in Taiwan (and centuries before that, from China, but we're talking over 4000 BC when that happened). Taiwan was the mothership that seeded the cultures of Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, maybe even Hawaii. That history is Long and vulnerable.

No, what matters is taking account of the coloniasm that raped China's sovereignty, with many countries purposely destroying its economy, and then considering the impacts reflected into today's USA spreading a disinformation campaign and you naively believing its propaganda, all 'cause they want 'em chips, they don't give two shits about the chinese, yet they're trying their beast splitting them apart.