Re:China Is Sabotaging Itself in Taiwan
by mytailorisrich on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:14AM
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Some might retort that the protests in HK came at exactly the right time to influence the Presidential election in Taiwan in favour of the incumbent...
From the point of view of the Chinese government there is no sabotaging of anything. The reunification stance under "one country two systems" is purely rhetorical. The KMT will never agree to 'surrender' to the communists, the other side will never accept reunification by principle, and the Taiwanese people will never agree to give up their democratic system. That won't change as long as the mainland is not democratic, and that is the last thing Xi Jinping wants...
From the point of view of the Chinese government there is no sabotaging of anything. The reunification stance under "one country two systems" is purely rhetorical. The KMT will never agree to 'surrender' to the communists, the other side will never accept reunification by principle, and the Taiwanese people will never agree to give up their democratic system. That won't change as long as the mainland is not democratic, and that is the last thing Xi Jinping wants...