Because they were both founded by fascists and exist solely to extend american military reach?
US proxies be proxy'ing.
Never forget the White Terror the ROC subjected the native Taiwanese to — specially leftists and even liberals — when colonizing it.
It might have something to do with both countries being founded and governed by Fascists. It bears remembering that the KMT colonized the island of Taiwan in much the same way that Israel colonized Palestine; with a swift and brutal round of ethnic cleansing to secure their local hegemony, followed by decades of military support from Fascists in the West.
I don’t think China should invade Taiwan but it drives me up the wall that so many people think that they are some plucky little democracy standing up to the big, bad, commies, when the reality is that they are just another hyper-capitalist settler-colonial project in the same vein as the US, Israel, Canada, etc.
I don’t think China should invade Taiwan but it drives me up the wall that so many people think that they are some plucky little democracy standing up to the big, bad, commies, when the reality is that they are just another hyper-capitalist settler-colonial project in the same vein as the US, Israel, Canada, etc.
I agree (including that China shouldn't invade, which China also thinks), it drives me crazy how people feel fit to say anything at all about Taiwan when they know so little about it that they think "Taiwanese" is the language they speak or that the dominant ethnicity isn't Han Chinese or that they hadn't been part of China before US intervention in the Chinese Civil War. These are all things that I've encountered in person.
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