• stembolts@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    “consider themselves to be China”

    “reunification (by force if necessary)”

    Your own statement conflicts itself. If Taiwan considers itself part of China, why would force be necessary?

    Taiwan doesn’t consider itself to be a country? Taiwan seems to disagree with that.

    This post is full of dumb.

    • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      What they tried to say is, that Taiwan also considers mainland China to be their rightful territory. Taiwans official name is Republic of China, Mainland China’s official name Peoples Republic of China.

      Both consider themselves to be the rightful government of the whole China (including both mainland China and Taiwan). Both do not consider the other parties rule to be legitimate.

      It really is comparable to Korea or pre-unification Germany. Both governments are united in following the “one China principle”.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Ok since my “post is full of dumb” let me provide some reference material so you can enlighten yourself. Here is a Wikipedia article on the One China policy. Here is on from the Taiwan page.

      EDIT: Also I never said that Taiwan considers itself part of China. I said that the Republic of China considers themselves to be China, as in, the official Chinese government. The PRC also considers itself to be official China and it considers Taiwan to be a rogue state, like how Catalonia was going rouge in Spain except the Republic of China considers itself the govt of China.