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Originally Posted by astralis
ray,
over 100 years of living a rather different lifestyle, different experiences, and even a slightly different form of a writing system- that tends to do it.
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Also there's a good portion of the population in Taiwan who believe they are not Chinese, but Taiwanese. They have nothing in common with China. They regard the nationalists who escaped communism and arrived in Taiwan in 1949 to be "foreign occupiers" and are to be resisted. This is the Taiwan independence group and would like to see Taiwan in the UN as a form of tacit recognition by the international community of the Republic of Taiwan.
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Originally Posted by astralis
the latest offer coming from the PRC is that taiwan is to keep everything it currently has, even the government and military if it so wishes, and that PRC officials will not be coming to taiwan. in return, taiwan acknowledges PRC sovereignty and gives up its own foreign affairs.
that's better than what HK gets.
however, taiwan is not HK. it's been ruling itself for as long as the modern-day PRC- not as a colony- and has been democratic for roughly the last 15 years.
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That looks like a pretty good offer.
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Originally Posted by astralis
there's simply no incentive, past perhaps cultural incentive and some small economic incentive, for taiwanese to unify with the mainland. as the economies grow further intertwined, the latter will grow more dramatically. and then taiwanese may re-think the idea of unification...
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What incentive was there for HK to reunify with China? Or was that a legality thing as HK was a colony being returned?