• freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    1. If Taiwan were a sovereign nation, then its coastal waters would be coincidental with China’s, so again, your claim is spurious. But as Taiwan is not sovereign, has never claimed sovereignty, and has never been recognized as an independent sovereignty, the point is moot.
    2. Pro-imperialism is supporting the European-imposed order. Taiwan’s separation from the mainland was a European intervention - literal imperialism. Ending the separation is, by definition, anti-imperialism. Could Taiwan secede from China eventually? Sure. Not now, though, when secession from China guarantees nuclear encirclement by imperialists.
    3. I don’t have feelings about countries’ reasons for Taiwan relationships. I am just reporting history. You can make stupid claims about feelings but it doesn’t change the fact that your argument has no basis in reality.
    4. The relevancy is to disprove your saying that Taiwan isn’t recognized internationally as a part of the nation of China.
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      1 year ago

      If Taiwan were China why do mainland Chinese need a passport to go there?

      It’s like saying north and south Korea are the same country because, historically, they used to be the same country.

      They’re not the same country.

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        1 year ago

        Korea is one nation, though there are two governments. Same deal for China. Eventually both will reunify.

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                Korea is just one nation, with two governments each controlling a part of it. Each claims to be the legitimate state representing the entirety of the nation, so the implicit goal of each is reunification. The sticking point there is the terms of that reunification. Currently the two governments are still at war with each other under an extended ceasefire, so it’s unresolved.

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                  Sounds like a marriage that’s broken, but both husband and wife refuse to divorce. If we look at the history nation states, have you ever seen a country break apart, draw boarders, and then reconcile their differences and reunite?

                  I’m tasking this pragmatically, does one need a passport to go between the boarders? If the answer is yes, they are functionally separate nations.