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Originally Posted by gunnut
Is Taiwan really a nation? Tibet, and Vietnam were more or less buffer zones for China, and have always been under the influence. India is a totally separate culture(s) and a totally separate people(s). China has never claimed India. Taiwan is a different issue. Most of the people in Taiwan are from China, or descendants of people who came from China. Chinese culture runs deep there. China, both under the Nationalist government and the CCP government, claim Taiwan as a part of China. Only the Taiwan independence movement want Taiwan to be separate.
If you restrict the geographical area to Taiwan only, then you can say more people want Taiwan to be independent. But if you include China, then more people want Taiwan to stay with China. I'm all for democracy but where do we draw the line?
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The same argument could be applied to America. Many of the people in the US are descended from people from the UK. UK culture runs deep there. Technically they should just suck it up and be part of the British Empire, because only the people who fought against the crown in the War of Independence wanted the US to be separate from the UK.
China is a nasty piece of work. They're a dictatorship that defies the international community all the time. They ignore the widescale counterfeiting of our products. They artificially devalue their currency and generally thumb their nose at the rest of the world. They invaded India and Tibet, and are angry if anyone even talks to the Dalai Lama, let along honour his work. They're supplying weapons to Sudan, Iran, the Taleban, and just about everyone else we don't want to have weapons. I would say that there are a lot of good reasons why we don't want them to expand to Taiwan as well. Yet for some reason, as long as they slather lead paint on cheap toys for Wallmart they're all right in our books. China always seems to get a free pass when they least deserve it.