More than one of these people, I have asked: Okay, what sources would you trust? What isn’t all just CIA or Western lies?
They really didn’t want to answer the question, and reacted to it with quite a bit of hostility (which I think was tactically a good idea, if they’re trying to “win” the conversation for the side they’ve chosen to support, because it doesn’t take a genius to see where I’m going with the next steps.)
But sure, I’m the victim of propaganda. If only I knew the truth, I wouldn’t be so ignorant.
I get a shit-eating grin across my face every time I see one of these chucklefucks backed into a corner like that. They always either respond with something like “no u”, “fuck you”, or both, and then yeet themselves out of the conversation.
An indication that Taiwan would probably also be put through this sinicisation process Islamic Chinese cultures on the mainland are.
It kinda already was, the KMT dictatorship didn’t just practice it on the Austronesian indigenous population, but also on the already existent transplant chinese population that primarily spoke Hokkien dialect.
The worst part of all of this is they could just admit that they’re clinging to Xinjiang for the more defensible natural border and yo Tibet for the water sovereignty, but because practical geopolitical concerns aren’t Marxist enough for their liking they have to have some complex moral justification for it all.