this is a call to action, not a complaint! the instinct behind the xi memes is noble but does little to expose the recent and significant harm that our overseas siblings endure. let’s channel our creativity in ways that positively break the mold, bringing awareness and empathy into the conversation.
I don’t know with Taiwan, maybe offer them a place in the USA or something. If the ROC had tried to settle with only holding Taiwan and ended the civil war diplomatically, that would be entirely different. If the US civil war had ended with a ceasefire and the Southern Confederacy had retreated to Cuba while never rescinding their claim as the government of the Confederate states, I would not take kindly to any foreign intervention as a US citizen. Maybe I’m one of the only people with independent thought and ethical reasoning skills in the country, but I find it idiotic to have a double standard. Let those that wish to immigrate do so and take whatever with them, but anyone else getting between the ROC and PRC is a piece of shit with criminal motivations. The Chinese decide their own fate and destiny. Some will be winners some will be losers. The ROC failed to represent the Chinese people when they retreated to Taiwan. It isn’t my place to take sides or get involved. Give them a peaceful escape, sure, solve the conflict peacefully, sure if it is possible, but to try to push the PRC into WW3 is some dumb nonsense just like trying to “contain” China instead of coexisting peacefully. Containment is needed for incompetent exploiter criminals to maintain hegemony without merit.
Taiwan also held a referendum on gay marriage and voted overwhelmingly against it, but the courts forced it through anyways.
The world is a messy place, and I’m for everyone being happy and coexisting in peace. However I seriously worry that Taiwan is the cause of WW3 to come in a few years time. WW3 is the obvious easiest way for the present elite to deal with climate change without changing their ways at all. The flip side of the climate change coin is “a population problem.” Population is easy to manage with a large scale global conflict. Killing 7 billion people solves the problem for at least another century. That is not as impossible as it sounds. Consolidation of power makes it even easier. I don’t support that. Let all of Taiwan immigrate anywhere in the world if it saves the rest of us. That is just 24 million people, versus billions, and for a fight in a civil war which they never tried to settle.
Tell me, should we take this same mentality to Ukraine and Palestine? Should those Eastern Europeans just be left to fight it out amongst themselves? Not our problem if the bigger more powerful one invades another? Not our issue what happens in the Middle East, if one country keeps another under its thumb for decades and then starts a wholesale genocide?
By all means, avoid hawkishness. Nobody wants to do anything to provoke China. But if China does decide to invade Taiwan, that will be one sovereign state aggressively invading another. And I don’t think it’s a bad thing to say “hey, maybe it’s a good idea to try to stop that”.
Picking a side in isolation without context is not smart. Looking at the situation in totality is required.
Ukraine gave up nuclear arms with the understanding that this invasion would never happen. I think it is up to the entire world to take a stand in that instance.
Israel is a rogue crusader state that shouldn’t have existed as evidenced by genocide. The entire middle east is a mess due to the boarders and racism of western powers after WW1. Getting involved there is wrong on top of the original wrongs that caused it. Two wrongs never make a right.
Why not accept that the PRC won the civil war and that the ROC lost without any further conflict. I mean I would love to spend time living in Shenzhen. I spent time on some Chinese electronics forums before they got locked down to user names with mainland phone numbers. There was all the usual talk and even a lot of politics along with a bunch of pinned threads about what was not acceptable to say or talk about. People were actually more real and a more vibrant community than in the west in many ways. I would honestly rather be a part of what I saw in those instances. I could go on more, but I see the only real losers as venture capital in this situation and their money is not worth a single death.
Because, at its most fundamental, I think looking at the world in terms of the bigger fish is a disgusting worldview. We should just let the strong rule? In that case, let’s go USA! Go pull out those nukes and use 'em on anyone who dares challenge your supremacy!
No, I would much rather live in a world where people can decide for themselves what they want, and where everyone else will help them achieve that if a bigger fish comes along to try and stop them.
That is a selective narrative context that is not grounded in the full scope of reality and recent history. You’ve decided to make up a label of what is or is not a big and small fish. The ROC was once a very big fish and it lost badly. You are parroting propaganda perspective when you fail to look at the big picture of events and look at them in total. This view of Taiwan in isolation without the history and broader context is propaganda nonsense out of western countries.
The actual geopolitics of Taiwan is very much about US manipulation and denial of maritime access to China. It always has been. This is absolutely about bullying anyone that can challenge American supremacy. The whole logic behind TSMC was to make Taiwan valuable to venture capital in the USA so that the supremacy angle was not the only factor that kept the US attached to Taiwan. It was a brilliant move, but it is ending now. The end of the silicon age is now. We are reaching the Landauer Limit in around 5 years time when memory eraser is too power intensive to scale further. This changes the formula of value. In addition, China’s population peak against the cost to invade Taiwan is set to be optimal in 2030 after which invasion becomes much less feasible. This is what most independent analysts that I follow say. I don’t want to see any of this happen and I’m not taking sides. A realist perspective and open minded observation leads me here. I’m pretty skeptical of most sources and especially ones that focus on recent events to the exclusion of context and total history to spin some narrative or convenient propaganda to support the only bully with military bases around the world and surrounding China in this instance.
What if the confederates could not renounce their claim on the US because America would invade Cuba if they did?
China will not allow them to renounce their claim, to do so would imply that Taiwan is not Chinas.
Because that’s what Taiwan has to go through, so most people say keep the status quo because it’s better than pissing of China and them starting WW3 over the island.
I view that like retaliation for Taiwan holding onto the UN chair for all of China along with all the other diplomatic attempts to repress the PRC. I can empathise for sure about how past problems are thrust on a newer generation that has no say in where they were born. I personally feel like the entire affair is not a real issue but is heavily politicized.
China is largely thriving with people that have more purchasing power than most people in the USA. China doesn’t seem all that bad to me. It is just as backwards conservative as any large group of people. The cultural values are less than ideal in some areas, but the USA is no better, or anywhere else for that matter. A foreign national just bought a US president after that president tried to overthrow the government. I can still say that openly, but for he long. All US companies are moving to a neo feudal society, a regression of a millennium of sociopolitical progress and destroying any semblance of democracy. An informed public is the third cornerstone in the foundation of democracy and yet the internet only has 2 relevant web crawlers, both of which are not deterministic and are individually targeting users across all platforms. Mainstream media is owned by a half dozen entities. This is no different than China. It is likely worse. So what is everyone fighting for. It is just about TSMC and the supporting industry.
I was in the bike shop business. There are a handful of factories around Giant there in Taiwan. They undercut the whole market until there were no other competing companies making bikes at large scale production. When they got the monopoly buttoned up, the price of bikes over doubled here. This has crushed road cycling in my area. No one could afford a nice bike and most quit riding. This is Orange County CA, one of the biggest bike markets in the world.
I think the ethics are sketchy regardless of who the government is. Overall, whatever is right or wrong may change but it is relatively minor stuff. There are privateers and criminals on all sides. It is not worth dying for a change of address when paying taxes IMO.