Taiwan proposed on Thursday $19 billion in defence spending for next year, a double-digit increase on 2022 that includes funds for new fighter jets, weeks after China staged large-scale military exercises around the island it views as its territory.
The claim is that the CPC has legitimate authority over the Taiwanese land. When did the CPC ever take that land? When has it ever governed it? Never. The CPC can wave around recognition they’ve gotten out of governments all they like. It doesn’t change that that is not how Taiwan is.
I get that’s what the CPC’s claim is. I just think it’s an incredibly faulty claim, given that they’ve never governed Taiwan. They’ve just said that they do.
Good for them. Going to go imperialist by invading a neighboring country that is no threat to them? Because that’s what this has become now. If they do this, all claims to be “anti-imperialist” become hollow and false.
Going to go imperialist by invading a neighboring country that is no threat to them?
Not a country.
War isn’t imperialism. Imperialism is an economic system, not just something you call any and all military action by any large country. Imperialism is an elevated form of capitalism in which finance-capital has evolved to become such a power that it merges with the state and uses all state powers in the pursuit of the expansion of capital abroad. Imperialism isn’t one specific action, it is an entire state of being of a country. Like capitalism, but at its highest stage.
I’m sticking with how people live their lives instead of how the CPC’s ideology wants things to be.
People living in Taiwan are by and large happy with the status quo. Why are you trying to project your ideas on them? They don’t want independence, they want things to remain as they are. Why are you so insistent you know better than them?
How’s the housing market?
Considering 90% of people own their homes and Chinese cities never show up in most expensive cities in the world, it seems to be going great.
And the aging population?
As if that’s not a problem anywhere. Didn’t stop the US from becoming and being the richest and most powerful country for a long time.
The claim is that the CPC has legitimate authority over the Taiwanese land. When did the CPC ever take that land? When has it ever governed it? Never. The CPC can wave around recognition they’ve gotten out of governments all they like. It doesn’t change that that is not how Taiwan is.
Taiwan is a region of China. CPC is the legal government of China. Are those two facts so difficult to get into your head?
I get that’s what the CPC’s claim is. I just think it’s an incredibly faulty claim, given that they’ve never governed Taiwan. They’ve just said that they do.
Chinese people dont care what you think.
Good for them. Going to go imperialist by invading a neighboring country that is no threat to them? Because that’s what this has become now. If they do this, all claims to be “anti-imperialist” become hollow and false.
Not a country.
War isn’t imperialism. Imperialism is an economic system, not just something you call any and all military action by any large country. Imperialism is an elevated form of capitalism in which finance-capital has evolved to become such a power that it merges with the state and uses all state powers in the pursuit of the expansion of capital abroad. Imperialism isn’t one specific action, it is an entire state of being of a country. Like capitalism, but at its highest stage.
Read the thread again. Not a neighboring country, but a region of China.
China is rapidly becoming the most powerful and richest country in the world. No country will care about cheap slander from the collapsing US.
Feel free to keep that view, but I’m sticking with how people live their lives instead of how the CPC’s ideology wants things to be.
China shouldn’t get too overconfident there. How’s the housing market? And the aging population?
People living in Taiwan are by and large happy with the status quo. Why are you trying to project your ideas on them? They don’t want independence, they want things to remain as they are. Why are you so insistent you know better than them?
Considering 90% of people own their homes and Chinese cities never show up in most expensive cities in the world, it seems to be going great.
As if that’s not a problem anywhere. Didn’t stop the US from becoming and being the richest and most powerful country for a long time.