There cannot be more than one China. The idea never made any sense. It’s a weird relic of the 1950s.
People don’t really even seem to understand that Taiwan claims it is the government of all of China. It’s not called “Taiwan,” officially it is called “The Republic of China.” Now, Joe Biden is claiming it is an independent country, which no one ever claimed, including the government of Taiwan.
What happened was: there was a communist revolution, and the non-communists fled to Taiwan, and were supported by America as the government of China. Then, in the 1970s, when China opened up, the US itself agreed that there is only one China. It’s called “The One China Policy.”
Joe Biden has apparently totally reversed this policy. It’s not at all clear what the current status is. But Biden has stated publicly that Taiwan either is currently (???) or should become an independent country.
It’s all just a mess, because none of the conditions that created it exist anymore. Mao Zedong is no longer alive. There is very little difference between the basic functioning of the two countries at this point, other than the various social experiments that the US has pushed on Taiwan (feminism, homosexuality, etc.). If you want to talk about freedoms – Taiwan had forced vax and real China didn’t. That’s really all you need to know. (In theory, Taiwan has more freedom of speech. But go try to start a Daily Stormer in Taiwan and see what happens. America literally claims to have free speech, and yet is six million times more censorious than China, which does not claim to have free speech.) It’s an American colony, where America sets policy. So, is that freedom? In real China, policy is determined by the will of the people and enacted by the Emperor in the name of the people. Taiwan voted against so-called “anal marriage” three times, and they got it anyway.
The reason that the people in Taiwan wanted to remain separate after Maoism ended was that Taiwan was much richer than China. That is not really the case anymore. It is technically the case per capita, but that’s a gap that has closed so rapidly, it will be totally closed in less than a decade.
Further, the Hong Kong model worked.
So, Xi’s idea was to begin reunification in 2045. Then Joe Biden starts sailing war ships back and forth through the straits every day, flying around nuclear-armed bomber jets, and so on, while claiming he’s “defending Taiwan.” The Biden strategy – that is, the Blinken/Nuland/Sullivan strategy (those three people – two Jews and a homo – make 100% of the choices about American foreign policy, in secret, and lie about all of it) – is to provoke a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by accusing China of planning to invade Taiwan, even as China’s leader is saying “we’ll figure it out in a couple decades or whatever.”
Conservatives don’t seem to be aware of any of this at all. Conservatives have been made to believe that China is bad. This is really inexplicable. It doesn’t even make any sense. It is, like Taiwan, a holdover from the middle of the 20th century. China is an ultra-conservative, ultra-nationalist country, with zero territorial ambitions beyond Taiwan (and the South China Sea, I guess you would have to say, but they don’t really have a choice there as the US is trying to seize it in order to blockade Chinese exports). They are not going to invade America.
In general, a lot of Chinese people often behave in a way that most other countries view as anti-social. They talk very loudly, they chain smoke, they generally appear totally oblivious to the people whose country they are visiting. I think that is true. But that is really related to the fact that China developed so quickly that the rich generation of Chinese that is now traveling the world are the sons of rice farmers. Basically, many of them just haven’t developed proper urban manners. However, we can see from the Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong Chinese that after a couple generations of affluence, these behaviors that are interpreted as rude go away.
Xi has been doing a big push to tell people to behave themselves in other countries. And I mean, it’s not like they are Somalians. They just talk really loud in public and don’t have normal social politeness.
I’m not even sure Americans are exposed to Chinese people very much. If they are, maybe they are offended personally.
Further, China is in theory a competitor. But they’re competing with Jews who run America. If Jews didn’t run America, we’d have economic competition in a way that would be healthy for both countries. Instead, “America” (read: “the Jews”) doesn’t believe in economic competition, they believe in manipulating the global economy and starting wars all over the world.
Right now, viewing the economic competition with China as a priority – more important than the fact that our country is run by the Jews – is like coming down stairs to find that a black guy has broken into your home and is raping your wife at knifepoint and walking past the scene to go argue with the neighbor about his dog pooping on your lawn. It is simply not rational to view China as a competitor to our country when we do not control our own country.
On the whole, this idea of “China bad” is a Cold War holdover for conservatives, and for liberals, the idea of bad Chinese is related to the fact that China is illiberal (racism, sexism, anti-homo, nationalism, etc.).
There is nothing dumber than seeing conservatives talk about China as their enemy. It makes more sense for liberals, because they have this idea of going around the world and using war to force homosexuality and feminism on everyone. Conservatives defending Taiwan is obviously just a massive psy-op.
China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader.
The Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are happening at a time of fraught relations between Beijing and Taipei. China has been ramping up military pressure to assert its sovereignty claims over democratically governed Taiwan.
Am I the single political commentator on earth who understands what “democratically governed” means?
Why does no one define it? Seriously, ask someone talking about “democracy” to define it. They will say something stupidly vague like “government by the people.” Then ask them why Xi Jinping has a 95% approval rating and Joe Biden has a 30% approval rating. Are the people in a democracy against themselves? Or do they just hate the consequences of their own decisions?
What the darn heck does “government by the people” even mean? The only context it would make sense is if instead of Congress voting, people voted online. That would be “by the people.” I don’t support that and don’t see why anyone would, but it would be much better than what we have now, which is the single most corrupt form of government to ever exist in human history.
China considers Taiwan to be its “sacred territory” and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under Chinese control, though Xi made no mention of military threats in his speech carried on state television.
“The reunification of the motherland is a historical inevitability,” Xi said, though the official English translation of his remarks published by the Xinhua news agency used a more simple phrase: “China will surely be reunified“.
“Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” he added. The official English translation wrote “all Chinese” rather than “compatriots”.
Reuters’ weasel words and aggression are shocking.
Did Lincoln consider the South to be his “sacred territory”? I don’t know the answer to that. I do know, however, that Jefferson Davis never claimed to be the president of all of the states of America.
This is all so stupid.
Xi has to say this stuff because of what Blinken/Nuland/Sullivan is doing. Remember when they flew in Nancy Pelosi? That was at least a public event, unlike all these military threats Biden is making.
And what happened after Nancy flew in? Did the Republicans, who supposedly disagree with the Democrats on everything, say “hey, why are you trying to start a war in China? Stop trying to start wars everywhere, this is retarded and insane”?
No. The Republicans said that Kevin McCarthy, then House minority leader, should also go to Taiwan and try to help provoke a war.
The fact that people go along with “hey, let’s start a war with China!” proves that democracy would be nonsensical, even if it was what they say it is (it’s not, actually, but if it was). A lot of people are simply stupid, but most people are busy. People work and take care of their families. Many of them have other very serious problems. People do not have time to figure out what is going on with Taiwan, something which no normal person should be expected to understand. When you then have the media reporting like this – as if China is planning to invade a foreign country out of pure malice – it becomes even more ridiculous.
Further: how are you going to fight a war with China? It doesn’t even make any sense on a basic level. There are 1.5 billion people in China. They have a lot of nukes. Are you going to land in Hong Kong like it’s the beaches of Normandy and then just start shooting people?
What the hell are we even talking about?