> The Chinese government hates free Taiwan and may invade but its a good idea to be suspicious of US government claims about the intentions of their enemy of the week.

Wait, why does the Chinese government hate a free Taiwan ? US gov was pretty on point with the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Shouldn’t we be suspicious about a government that “hates” a free neighbor ?

International politics are not about good guys and bad guys. The US government hates the Iranian and Cuban governments, not because they are worse than US allies like Saudi Arabia, but because they once humiliated the USA. Until 24 February 2022 Germany got along well with Russia, not because they had the same type of government, but because each had something the other needed.

> Wait, why does the Chinese government hate a free Taiwan ?

The answer to that is the most important subject barely taught at schools: history.

Well: history, and humans being.

Assuming "why does the Chinese government hate a free Taiwan?" is a real question, because Taiwan is where the survivors of the Chinese Nationalist government went after they lost the civil war with the Communists (and Communists and Nationalists kept kidnapping and murdering each other after that date), and because Chinese Communist Party ideology emphasizes unifying all Chinese.

See also the CCP's crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was another place where Chinese people lived with independent courts, a free press, and multiple parties and the CCP was not satisfied.

> Chinese Communist Party ideology emphasizes unifying all Chinese.

Interestingly, CCP wanted to help Taiwan, Mongolia, Korea and many other provinces to independent. It is KMT (nationalist government) who advocate unifying all Chinese. I guess the nationalist government won the propaganda war, now CCP go KMT's way.

Pretty sure that the CCP policy that there is one China including Taiwan goes back to the 1950s. Its ugly and complicated history but Taiwanese people today can look at what is happening to the Uighurs and see very good reasons not to be conquered by China.

I'm talking about CCP in 1936, when they were still guerrilla.

Fair enough! The history between the KMT and the CCP in the 1940s and 1950s was really ugly and complicated, but it has lead to this situation where Beijing may try to conquer Taipei and hundreds of millions of people may suffer.

Taiwan is the Republic of China government that flee the mainland after they lost to the Chinese Communist Party during the civil war, so of course the CCP want to eradicate them once and for all.

So I guess 2027 is the ETA for when the new US chip fabs come online...