Re:Taiwan to Deploy ‘Bee Eye’ Radars Near Chinese Mainland
by FooBarWidget on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:47PM
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You know, the early 2000s looked pretty promising, with China and Taiwan having normalized relations for a while and with cross-strait business blooming. Back then a large portion of Taiwanese identified as Chinese. Today's tensions haven't always been there. As little as 10 years ago, Taiwanese supported reunification (though on their terms, e.g. the ROC government takes over the mainland)
Ironically, Taiwan is very pro-Japan nowadays even though Japan was a colonizer in the early 20th century. Given this, it's not at all set in stone that relations will stay bad if peace endures.
Re:Taiwan to Deploy ‘Bee Eye’ Radars Near Chinese Mainland
by Adraghast on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:48PM
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> Not really, if Putin had quickly succeeded I have not doubt that WWIII would have started with a failed attempt to take Taiwan followed by WWIII.
What qualifications allow you to make claims with such confidence?
The problem is that the status quo may not be acceptable to the people of Taiwan and reunification is not acceptable not even slightly wanted by the people of Taiwan. The's not really any chance of a reunification of the current China and the current Taiwan.
> Anything Russia does to other states has got absolutely nothing to do with it.
Not really, if Putin had quickly succeeded I have not doubt that WWIII would have started with a failed attempt to take Taiwan followed by WWIII. There's no scenario where A) China can take Taiwan, and B) Taiwan will accept Chinese rule. That died 70 years ago.