Joe Biden Fails to Congratulate Taiwan’s President-Elect: ‘We Don’t Support Independence’
Of course he does not support independence.... Xi told him not to.
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Besides a dirty deal still being a tit for tat deal, what other enemy country would want to bribe him if he did not?
Countless independence-loving Taiwanese soon getting killed for being thrown under the bus by a country whose Forefathers wrote The Declaration Of Independence is just acceptable collateral damage when you've been influence peddling in oodles and oodles of obscene for completely treasonous dirty riches.
If China does land, there will be an instant civil war on the tiny island.
asian quagmire.
Why does a constitutional republic go around the world promoting democracies? Is it because democracies are weak and easily manipulated to their ends?
Millions more innocents are going to die for the MIC in Taiwan. Only this time, there will be no borders for them escape over. So 100% slaughter rate is possible.
28% Traditional folk religions
20% Buddhist
19% Taoist
24% non-believers/atheists
7% Christians
That being said, being independent of Mainland China has been a unifying factor for decades. They have a robust business engine and they know all that will come to a screeching halt if China becomes belligerent.
As to a religious civil war, that's quite the unfounded hypothetical. The problem is that none of those religions are militant; Taiwan doesn't have the same problem that Western China has or Indonesia or Sri Lanka where the majority are Muslim. You also have the prohibiting factor that there is no private ownership of firearms in Taiwan, so any resistance by the populace is going to be makeshift weapons. And I'm sure that this factors highly in China's plans because an armed populace would be much more difficult to deal with.
As to the Taiwanese voting for "independence" from China, they already have it with the status quo. China doesn't rule them - even though they'd like to. I'm just really not seeing this whole notion of a civil war in Taiwan...
1. 90% free trade of Taiwan comes from China.
2. Cross strait investment creates millions of factory jobs for mainlanders under Taiwanese leadership.
3. Taiwanese are welcomed to universities and work opportunities on the mainland to send remittances back to Taiwan unhindered by western and dpp interference.
If the DPP disrupts the status quo it will cripple Taiwan and then the world economy in turn.
2. Which is a disincentive for China to go to war just like the US and Mexico. But there's the interesting thing: you don't have Taiwanese citizens going across to China to look for jobs. Why? Because Taiwan has a free market system which has resulted in both industry and commerce. If the Chinese take Taiwan, it will be another shutdown just like Hong Kong.
3. Sure, because the Chinese benefit. But again, do you see many Chinese going to Taiwan for education? No - because they don't have the same opportunities. And let's not forget that the Chinese try to recruit the Taiwanese who go there to spy on their home nation to the benefit of China. The relationship is anything but neutral.
"If the DPP disrupts the status quo it will cripple Taiwan and then the world economy in turn."
A little hyperbolic, don't you think? I'm not going to deny that Taiwan declaring its total independence from China right now would be politically and militarily a bad idea, as the resulting war would put a major dent in Taiwan's economic output even if it survived. And if you're implying that China would cut off trading to the rest of the world once such a war started, that's possible, but it would be extremely unwise for China. Trade is a two-way street as much as China would like that otherwise. Their economy is already on the rocks and if they started a war with Taiwan, it wouldn't be very difficult to get a coalition of nations to embargo China - as painful as that may be to some industries like electric vehicles. And if there was anything President Trump proved, it was that China really cares about its trade. The tariffs Trump extracted on China had a profound effect on their ambitions around the globe - ambitions that are being pursued heavily under a complicit US President.
1. Taiwanese voted against "independence" mandate 6 to 4
2. Taiwanese Buddhists have successfully incorporated all of the folk religions ceremonies and Taoists regularly incorporate beliefs with Buddhism in Taiwan. Taiwanese are very proud of being the last location of traditional eastern Buddhist temples and practices. Buddhism absorbs Gods and share Ancestors, not murders them for all time like with Christianity. Buddhists will fight crusaders that wish to destroy the last of the cultural shrines that withstood 5000 years of wars.
3. Civil war would be based on old grievances between those that see themselves as Taiwanese, those that see themselves as Chinese and those that seek a third position. And owing to the fact the majority of the people do not wish to be ruled from Washington through the dpp and want the status quo to remain and/or return.
Arming Taiwanese would create genocidal conditions instantly. Old KMT warlords would be crowned overnight.
I hope that your understanding is more clear?
2. How the various religions worship is up to them. If they choose to take the Roman stance of absorbing all other gods - and effectively having none - I guess that's up to them. No idea where you are going with "not murders them for all time like with Christianity" however.
3. Where are you seeing these kinds of divisions except in Chinese Communist Party propaganda? Taiwan has been its own nation for three generations now and they can clearly see what life would be like under the thumb of the Communists. They paid much closer attention to Hong Kong than did Westerners because that would be the future of their country. And most of them are terrified of it.
"Arming Taiwanese would create genocidal conditions instantly. Old KMT warlords would be crowned overnight."
Again, I'm really questioning where you are getting such notions. The Chinese haven't been in control of Taiwan since WW II and the US left militarily in 1979. That's three generations of change plus them watching tens of millions of their relatives in China getting slaughtered by the Communists. And you think they still have such strong ties to that that they'd be willing to start a civil war?
The ruling zionists media does not inform you of the realities of Taiwan.
You're misinformed. The Western perspective is very limited in these matters.
The western powers are creating yet another quagmire in which they do not have realistic perspective nor historical understanding.
The problem I have with your statement is that it isn't supported. Islam and communist atheism both have far more blood on their hands: Islam since the 800's AD and atheism in the past ~120 years. Christianity - even if you aggregate all the various Christian sects together - doesn't hold a candle to either of these even if you add in the Inquisition, the England vs Ireland conflict, or the so-called Crusades (which were fights against invading Muslims).
In my advanced years, I know just a little about dementia.
There is no cure.
You last five, maybe ten years, them you're gonzo.