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Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by epgui on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:42PM (#28822988)
Whether we like it or not, the CCP is an integral part of today's China, both the good and the bad.
Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by dada78641 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:19PM (#28823581)
So? Bolsonaro is an integral part of today's Brazil. Does that mean being anti-Bolsonaro equates to being anti-Brazil?

It's completely disingenuous to suggest that recognizing the horrors of an oppressive nation-state equates to some sort of bigotry against the country itself.

Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by epgui on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:22PM (#28823605)
You will note that I suggest no such thing!
Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by carapace on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:07PM (#28823510)
Chinese culture is older and broader than CCP's China†. E.g. here in San Francisco our Chinatown is older than the state of California‡.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese

‡ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_San_Francisco

Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by epgui on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:20PM (#28823595)
Assuredly! I was careful to use the phrasing "is an integral part of", in acknowledgment that "China" is vaster/broader/older/etc.
Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by zeckalpha on Sunday October 10, 2021 @08:56PM (#28823436)
Not in Taiwan!
Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by krageon on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:35AM (#28827180)
If you are completely, militantly and with your entire being opposed to it, it is in fact still a part of you.
Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by epgui on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:11PM (#28823530)
Is Taiwan China though? (mostly non-rhetorical, honest question)
Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by thedudeabides5 on Monday October 11, 2021 @03:03AM (#28825593)
No, it is not.

The people of Taiwan don't want any part of CCP China, and in spite of a lot of noise about "One China Policy" the only people arguing right now for reunification are Xi and the cadres.

Re:China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual P... by zeckalpha on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:54PM (#28830357)
Uh, the government of Taiwan considers itself a successor of the Republic of China and claims the mainland, just as the PROC/CCP claim Taiwan.