Having crushed the opposition in Hong Kong, China is moving against Taiwan. The island's military is in bad shape and it's unclear how the U.S. will respond.
There's resistance to China in the urban centers of Taiwan, but I've never read anything from western sources about the rural areas. They seem to exclusively interview people who are in the technology sector and studied abroad. Even those people aren't super worried about China. They aren't like "we're going to fight to the last person to defend Taiwan" they're like "If there's a referendum to rejoin China and it passes, I'll get used to it".
Theres not just "resistance", theres a decades long campaign of deliberate propaganda, disinformation, and brainwashing people into following the party line to hold a staunch anti china narrative and view. Most people in the US also "dont like socialism or communism", doest mean socialism or communism are bad, just means people were taught to believe that.
It's just our resident terminally online Anarchist collective. Their entire position is "tankies bad" so you end up with shit like them defending a hyper capitalist police state formed by reactionaries.
I think the answer to this varies depending on what you take as the atomic political unit. If the majority of a community's members want independence from a state, then I think that community has a right to seek independence even if most citizens of the state don't agree with it. If a town in Taiwan voted to be independent from Taiwan and rejoin China, I would uncritically support it. By the same token, if a town in Catalonia didn't want to be a part of the anarchist movement and was forced to regardless, I would condemn the movement for trying to control that town.
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There's resistance to China in the urban centers of Taiwan, but I've never read anything from western sources about the rural areas. They seem to exclusively interview people who are in the technology sector and studied abroad. Even those people aren't super worried about China. They aren't like "we're going to fight to the last person to defend Taiwan" they're like "If there's a referendum to rejoin China and it passes, I'll get used to it".
Theres not just "resistance", theres a decades long campaign of deliberate propaganda, disinformation, and brainwashing people into following the party line to hold a staunch anti china narrative and view. Most people in the US also "dont like socialism or communism", doest mean socialism or communism are bad, just means people were taught to believe that.
I totally agree, I was just providing an "by your own logic" response.
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bro why the fuck are these taiwanese baby shills in here
It's just our resident terminally online Anarchist collective. Their entire position is "tankies bad" so you end up with shit like them defending a hyper capitalist police state formed by reactionaries.
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get back to your country, colonist
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You should read about Smangus.
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I think the answer to this varies depending on what you take as the atomic political unit. If the majority of a community's members want independence from a state, then I think that community has a right to seek independence even if most citizens of the state don't agree with it. If a town in Taiwan voted to be independent from Taiwan and rejoin China, I would uncritically support it. By the same token, if a town in Catalonia didn't want to be a part of the anarchist movement and was forced to regardless, I would condemn the movement for trying to control that town.
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What principle do you mean?
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This sums up how I feel about it as well.