cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/49224731
China’s ambassador to Australia has urged Canberra to prepare for dealing with a “reunified China”, declaring Chinese people “will not forgive” countries that seek to obstruct Beijing’s push to bring Taiwan under its control.
In remarks that frame reunification as inevitable and resistance as unforgivable, Xiao Qian likened Taiwan’s status to that of Tasmania and warned that any attempt of “compromising or openly distorting” Beijing’s one-China principle would constitute a retreat from prior commitments and erode trust.
He said Australia could not keep reaping the benefits of trade with China while seeking to block reunification, signalling economic consequences for resisting Beijing’s aims.
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Mr Xiao also lashed a recent [Australian] Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade statement that described China’s military and coast guard drills around Taiwan as “deeply concerning, destabilising and risk inflaming regional tensions”, and reiterated that Canberra opposed any unilateral attempt to change the status quo.
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He also cautioned governments, including Australia’s, against pursuing dialogue on Taiwan unless they were committed to reunification.
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Pretty much what “peaceful unification” means
White Euro centric westerns stop projecting challenge: impossible
MLs stop chaining random lingo with no substance to appear intelligent challenge: impossible
China hasn’t dropped a bomb in over 30 years.
It’s the USA that says “let me save you from what I will do to you if you don’t let me save you”.
The USA has destroyed a dozen countries in only the last 20 years. It is currently bombing multiple countries as we debate. China is doing nothing of the sort and has done nothing of the sort for decades.
You are projecting your own culture’s violent mobster-like behavior onto China in a way that is fundamentally divorced from reality.
You’re literally a yank… and through your Yankish Orientalism you’re just advocating for the Chinese Monroe Doctrine
Aaanyways, I don’t expect you read Chinese (most yanks fascinated by the PRC don’t), but this post is from the PLA Eastern Theatre Command, not some rando on Weibo, a part of Chinese state apparatus.
The Chinese state showing their “Taiwanese comrades” as vermin to be exterminated by barrages of missiles is peaceful unification to you. Lmao. The locations of the worms in the photos are the most dense population centres in Taiwan, not military installations
In genocide studies, dehumanization is commonly understood as a preparatory step on the path to mass killing, which is also seen in other statements such as 留島不留人" (leave the island, don’t leave the people), etc.
It’s just so tired.
Those are locations of military installations, primarily US military installations, which is in keeping with the entire theme of the poster which is the destruction of US military assets.
You can keep trying to scrape up little things like this and pretend it proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the CPC is just like every single evil European empire. But we all know it’s projection. The USA is actively showing us what it looks like to kill your own people and to drive violent rhetoric against them. China looks nothing like that. The US is actively showing us what naval bullying looks like. China looks nothing like that.
You are drawing false equivalencies to simultaneously assure yourself that they are equally or more evil people in the world while also providing the rhetorical support the empire needs to continue vilifying its enemies and expanding its violence.
China hasn’t dropped a bomb in 30 years. In that same time, the US has destroyed a dozen countries. There is no equivalency. China has been pursuing peaceful reunification with Taiwan for 50 years. It gains absolutely nothing by attacking the island. The only reason it would attack Taiwan, and again it has said this for 50 years, is if foreign imperial powers establish too strong of a military presence there. Remember, there are US soldiers stationed 4 miles off the coast of the mainland because those small islands are part of the province of Taiwan.
It’s disgusting how much water you will carry for the empire.
The arm of the Chinese state tasked with annexing Taiwan posting images showing Taiwanese as vermin to be exterminated is “scraping small things”.
I don’t want US involvement in Taiwan, I want Taiwan and China to have better relations on the basis that there’s two countries on opposite sides of the Taiwan Strait. I don’t want yanks like you to benefit from war in Asia-Pacific.
Most Taiwanese I talk to want the same, but have to swallow sending money to the US for weapons in order to keep their way of life.
China could pull back on the ultimatum of annexation and allow those relations to flourish, instead it is ratcheting up the tension through drills simulating blockading Taiwan and starving it’s population into submission (against UN Charter but we don’t care about that in tankie land if China does it), and bombing dense population centres.
Edit: also where did you get that map lmao? Looks like it’s from the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis which is in the fucking 50s
Yes, choosing to editorialize a few small images on a poster as depicting the Han Chinese in Taiwan as vermin to be exterminated, when there is 50 years of diplomatic evidence that this is not the perspective of the Chinese government. Yes. You are scraping.
You’re too educated to be this ignorant. I have to assume you’re being totally disingenuous.
The US got involved in Taiwan to punish China when China decided to support the Korean people trying to push the US imperialists off the peninsula. When the US got involved, they supported the 40 year white terror. The white terror involved purging the island of entire families where anyone even mentioned maybe rejoining the mainland and ending the civil war. 40 fucking years of violent fascist repression while the US built up its imperial military logistics and infrastructure in its psychotic quest to violent destroy communism in China.
The island’s current “way of life” is only about 30 years old at this. Democratic reforms were introduced at the same time they were introduced in Hong Kong. That’s not a coincidence. But more importantly, that democratic transition happened with the US military already fully integrated into the society. The idea that they are somehow forced to buy weapons to maintain their way of life is totally disingenuous. They were buying weapons long before they abandoned overt violent fascism and the only reason China is threatening violence is literally because of foreign military interference. Again, China has been consistent on that for 50 years.
China’s recent escalations of the preparation of force can be explained in two ways: 1) they just decided after 50 years to finally just get violent because they’re irrational fascists or 2) the material threat to national security has gotten worse.
Given ALL the evidence that we have available to us, from Afghanistan to Libya to Somalia to Iran to Nigeria to Venezuela, do we genuinely think that the national security threat from the US is not at the highest it’s been since the 1950s?
And yes, the image I provided is older. I don’t have an updated map of all US military threats and strategic positions in Taiwan. That’s sort of irrelevant though, as the US has only continuously increased its military investment in Taiwan.
There’s no reason for Taiwan to peacefully unify with China.
Taiwan is incredibly rich, Taiwanese enjoy a stable welfare state that would make even the Nordics jealous. They can govern themselves and manage their national budget, which through the TSMC golden goose, is pretty fat.
Culturally, China is way behind. Look at the KTV songs and the “classic movies” in the Sinosphere, they’re most likely all from Taiwan.
A lot of Taiwanese look at Chinese modern culture, way of life, mannerisms and think it’s quite tacky.
So yeah, all in all, the only reason Taiwan would join China is to get protected from what China would do if it doesn’t. It’s equally imperialist
Kinda wish there was more real discussion and less propaganda/aislop.
Y’all are boring, can’t even tell you apart without reading your username every time.