• fluxion@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    How bout Xi just fuck off and focus on the 1.4 billion people already under his control?

    WTF kind of brain worm is possessing all these people to waste so much effort, money, and lives to gain small pieces of land. Absolutely ridiculous state of affairs in 2024. We have enough problems to keep us busy already.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Because Taiwan is a very valuble small peice of land.
      Microchip manufacturing facilities there are going to be important in the near future with the worlds increasing dependance on computing power & electronics manufacturing.

      If Taiwan was just another pocket of rural china then the CCP wouldnt give anywhere much of a shit… but they still probably wouldnt like it “getting away”.

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        2 years ago

        The actions of people a hundred years ago do not give people of today the authority rule.

            • Wodge@lemmy.world
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              2 years ago

              Well Taiwan’s claim predates that of the current People’s Republic of China.

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                2 years ago

                It’d also be fine if the mainlanders overthrow their oppressors and claim independence I guess

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                  2 years ago

                  Would be preferable tbh. China could just drop their claims over Taiwan and drop the levels of international tension by a fair bit, but no, they’re imperialists, and want to take everything.

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    2 years ago

    Could someone please explain the difference between “(re)unification” and “illegal annection” to the Chinese?