Taiwan president defiant as he begins Eswatini trip; China calls him a 'rat'

Tolerance paradox and all. If we tolerate the intolerant, the intolerant will destroy a tolerant society. For a tolerant society to exist, we must be intolerant of the intolerant.

Well do what a normal person would watch another news source this isn't rocket science.😁😉🙄

This is some crazy circular logic. China intervened because North Korea was going to lose, not because of US involvement. If the South was winning without the US, China would have still intervened. It’s literally part of their core foreign policy to maintain North Korea as a buffer state. They didn’t want to risk a land border with a western adversary when it has India on the opposite side.

Talking blue water fleets here, read people read. Fleets I bet your left ear most of yall don’t even k ow the difference between a floating coconut and a purpose built deep water world traversing vessel

Unfortunately for China the only thing the US need do to see it’s collapse is nothing

Your post, especially in the context of what you are replying to, implies that China is worse because unlike Eswatini, China has imperialistic ambitions. But you secretly knew this was indefensible which is why you purposely worded your post in such a way that when someone like me calls you out, you are able to pivot to a softer position of "i was just merely pointing to a difference!!!" At least grow some f****** balls and stick to your position

China been doing it for years.😅

He tried purging opposition members from the government. >Former Vice President Annette Lu (DPP), has expressed criticism of the "Great Recall Movement," highlighting concerns about the potential for authoritarian tendencies within the party. She cautioned that the DPP might be overemphasizing anti-China rhetoric, potentially diverting attention from pressing domestic issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Taiwanese_mass_electoral_recall_campaigns

He started a massive campaign to remove close to all opposition members from Parliament, and also jailed one of the most popular opposition party leaders without trial. Taiwan is like US. It is technically a democracy, but the safeguards are failing slowly as one party has successfully created a cult support base and is using that base to keeps testing the waters. Also imagine if 90% of news media in the US was controlled by republicans only.

>Lai visits Taiwan-funded projects in Eswatini https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/05/04/2003856736 Lai removing "Chinese' on the census to strip people of their Chinese heritage sounds democratic to me. Now 98% of Taiwan's population is ethnically classified as "Other"

OK, I'm having trouble understanding your original comment then. Do you think English doesn't have metaphors? We know they weren't literally saying he was a tiny four legged rodent. 

yup, some countries could learn from that.

That’s just not true is the thing.

Maduro really loves his chinese equipment, same with iran, almost like Iran's best equipment is iran made.... says a lot with a theocratic dictator makes better equipment than china, china prob gets all its working equipment from north korea 

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> If they had just declared themselves a new country like US did from England I don't think there would be all this drama. My understanding is that it's actually the exact opposite. Most people in mainland China are very firm on the idea of national unity; they would rather Taiwan (ROC) claim to be the real China than declare independence. There are currently 2 major political parties in Taiwan: the DPP and the KMT. The DPP favours Taiwanese independence, whereas the KMT maintains the view that the Republic of China is the only legal government of China. The CCP's relationship with the KMT is much better than its relationship with the DPP. For example, Xi Jinping has met with current and former KMT leaders on multiple occasions: * The [meeting in 2015](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_meeting_of_Ma_Ying-jeou_and_Xi_Jinping) between Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou (president of Taiwan at that time and former chairman of the KMT) was the first meeting between leaders of the two sides since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949; they met again [in 2024](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_meeting_of_Ma_Ying-jeou_and_Xi_Jinping) * Last month, Xi Jinping [met with KMT chairwoman Cheng Li-wun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visit_by_Cheng_Li-wun_to_mainland_China) In contrast, this is the CCP's stance on the pro-independence DPP: * [China threatened to impose the death penalty on Taiwan separatists](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-issues-guidelines-criminal-punishment-diehard-taiwan-separatists-2024-06-21/) * [The CCP has stated that "Pro-independence provocations of DPP pose greatest threat to cross-Straits peace"](https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/242446) * ... and in the article linked by the OP, China called Lai Ching-te (president of Taiwan and chairman of the DPP) a "rat"

No, no armistice or treaty was ever signed, but open conflict hasn't happened since 1979 when the US established relations with the PRC. They're technically still in conflict.

CCP didn't usurp. Kwomintang and CCP signed a treaty to form a bipartisan state, and Kuomintang tore it, starting the civil war. It ended with Chiang fleeing to Taiwan and the establishment of PRC

Yeah Winnie the Pooh, I like that comparison. Very funny and cute.

Then just declare independence. After all, the Chinese are too stoopiddddd as you say, Taiwan can easily outsmart them. They have big daddy America behind them too right? On a completely and utterly different whataboutism topic, why is Taiwan's national airline called China Airlines? Why is Taiwan called ROC? And why do they have so many Chinese artefacts in their museums?

Lolz Even Taiwanese are Han ethnicity. F*** you and your colonialism