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Still.
Still what? I've already explained China isn't attacking. And if you would like Taiwan to be independent petition your own government.
That's a bad take. Independence should be in the view of the people living there. I'm not going to gauge if Taiwan is a country based on if I can convince the US to recognize them, that's nonsense garbage logic
Is it? So you're for the independence of Barcelona? Hawaii? Ireland? Falken Islands? When do they get to choose?
yes
So you think that we should have split off America during the Jan 6th riots? At what point is a country a country and needs to defend it's existence and when is it not?
i can only hope for the collapse of the state, but in general i wish that upon every state that has so failed its people
So anarchy? Every time anarchy happens dictatorships follow. If the country is lucky, they'll eventually have a representative government. You can look at the history of Israeli Kibbutz to see how anarchy and communism fails. The problem with your idealism, which frankly if I could have my perfect world wouldn't look all that different, is that it's impossible. It's been tried over and over to various levels of failure.
All I'm doing is trying to explain the situation, I'm not trying to give a right or wrong to it. YOU are assuming I am.
I haven't said anything of the sort and i was mostly prodding you for more information so that i could internalize your statements as a useful source
Well ask away. I'm mostly here to try to get westerners to realize that their black and white view of the world is simply wrong or impossible.
How do you feel about the other aggressive things China is doing? Like attacking boats with water cannons because they just claim an area? Or dumping sand somewhere to make an island to claim the area? Or actual fighting and deaths over territories with India?
I think we have already established your view on Taiwan, which is hardly compatible with the general population.
I'm Taiwanese, if you look through my comment history you'll see I showed my passport. We want the status quo. We do not want to protest or fight for independence. I'm making these posts as a Taiwanese person because I'm tired of foreigners who never have been to Taiwan or at most a vacation trying to tell me and my people how we should think.
As to the other stuff, I don't have an opinion one way or the other. It's too complicated and each one deserves it's own complex analysis. I will however point you to Johnny Harris. I believe he gives a fairly unbiased opinion on all of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9IiZkMKi68
If you're not just trolling and being anti-China I highly recommend giving it a view.