Comment on Taiwan adds China’s Huawei, SMIC to export blacklist

• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re both tools created to further Western imperialism and destabilise their respective areas. MacArthur famously called Taiwan America’s ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’, and through decades of anti communist and propaganda and de-sinification and thanks to the vast resources spent on it, it has become way more than just that. If you understand both Israel and Taiwan as extensions of the Western bloc, you will easily comprehend what’s going on in their regions and de-spin their narratives.

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tools? First of all, Taiwan is historically 中華民國 (ROC).China is now 中華人民共和國 (PRC). The area known as Mainland China, or the area currently operated by the PRC was under the control of ROC. In fact, it was during a civil war between the two sides that Japan invaded during WW2.

    The current government of what is now known as China was being thrashed and the ROC almost quashed the rebellion. However, they put their differences aside to squash the Japanese government. The ROC suffered heavy losses to repel the Japanese.

    The PRC separatists took this opportunity to gain ground and pushed the ROC to the island of Taiwan.

    The current generation of Taiwanese are historically and culturally separated from the Chinese. The Taiwanese are happy to at least maintain the status quo of two separate entities, with only some from older generations looking to retake mainland China.

    Mainland China insists to takeover the island of Taiwan, by force if necessary.

    What do you mean Taiwan was a created tool? Learn your fucking history dude

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    • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Besides, there is also a tiny difference that Taiwan is not a lunatic blood-thirsty genocidal war-monger child-killer state-terrorism country.

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      • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So then why is Taiwan bending over backwards to cater to Zionists from a lunatic blood-thirsty genocidal child-killer state-terrorism country? Going so far as offer free vacations to zionists and expanding ties in the wake of Oct 7?

        www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/bj611yqjqxe

        middleeasteye.net/…/israel-taiwan-forging-closer-…

        “It was Mao Zedong who said, ‘Israel and Taiwan are bases of operation for imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective’. So almost automatically, if China supports a side, then Taiwan will support the other,” Arnaud Bertrand, an expert on China, told Middle East Eye.

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      • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m still trying to figure out their spin. /me shrugs

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Very conveniently avoided which foreign entities supported the KMT and financed the militarisation and anti-communist, pro-American retheoric in Taiwan, and there was simply no mention of the decades of White Terror and imposition of martial law and political repression, lol. God knows why, by now, “the current generation of Taiwanese are historically and culturally separated from the Chinese”. Yes, it was a moderately successful brainwashing project, I agree. I don’t agree with it because of morals, but that’s just me, I guess. Okay, “the long-standing current establishment” was ’ engineered’ (you didn’t like the word created) with the same "thorn in their side/military base idea in mind. FFS, there used to be a “United States Taiwan Defense Command”, and to this day there are US military personnel stationed in Taiwan. To deny the American Taiwanese project is crazy talk, but some people get paid for it. I hope it’s not you!

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      • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m well aware of white terror age, and the 228 incident. Im giving you an abridged version.

        There is a reason most of the current generation rejects both the CCP and the KMT. It’s not a brainwashing.

        Have you ever been to either country? I can’t figure out your spin.

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