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Yes, statehood is a legal fiction. It's still a historically developed social construct, with historically evidence mechanism for it. Contracts are fantasies too.

Taiwan does not fit the definition of a state because it has not triggered any of these mechanism. It fits the definition of an imperial vassal based on its history.

As for the PLA having a weapons-ready posture, again, the vassalage of Taiwan was done by imperial gunships. Of course there's a military posture, it was forced upon them by a literal invading military in the middle of a civil war.

As for national security implications, y'all love to think nuclear war is limited to just the launching missiles ignoring the US's constant project to undermine MAD and win a nuclear war. There are two primary components to this, both of which drive the US's encirclement of its opponents. The first is highly variable flight paths with short travel distances. This greatly reduces the effectiveness of missile defense and greatly increases the chances of a total decapitation attack before full scale MAD can be engaged. The second is missile defense. By encircling opponents with missile defense, the US hopes to prevent the large majority of retaliatory launches.

Yes, the US installing its military on the island of Taiwan is a national security threat while simultaneously undermining the claim that Taiwan is an independent nation state instead of an imperial vassal and unsinkable aircraft carrier.

Again, you keep claiming to know that the heart of the CPC is evil and duplicitous while simultaneously supporting every single statement about Taiwan that the US makes. Meanwhile, the US has been the most duplicitous actor in the world stage for a century, they have lied to go to war more times than you can remember, they are actively engaging in double speak daily while they commit war crimes, and you expect me to believe that the things they say, which are the same things you say, are true?

Please. I wasn't born yesterday. The US lied to invade Iraq. It is lying while killing Venezuelans. It lied to destroy Libya. It lied to invade Vietnam. It lied to bomb Iran. It lied to kill Soleimani. It lies to commit genocide. It lies to bomb Nigeria. It's all lies.

Meanwhile, China has not dropped a single bomb in 35 years. The people of China consider the people of Taiwan to be as Chinese as a Floridian considers a Montanan to be American. Invading Taiwan serves no strategic purpose outside of a material threat from the US, and it actively harms Chinese strategic interests.

The moment that the USA (or whatever superpower) decides to withdraw their support you can hop right over and clean house. A peaceful annexation is much more risky and politically messy [see Hong Kong].

Spoken like a mask off fascist. When has invading one's neighbor even been easy business? When has it ever been clean? The only people who believe this are cartoon villains and the fascist Western leadership who models themselves after said villains.

No, the Hong Kong transition is going quite smoothly. The protests came and went, the police were restrained in their response to being literally fire bombed by students egged on by the Brits and the Yanks. Sure, there are difficulties, but that's literally what China has said they would be doing since fucking Deng took office. One country, two systems. It literally has its roots in the Qing Dynasty!! It's a historical process and governance strategy that China has been pursuing for fucking four hundred years.

There is ZERO evidence for your claim that na invasion is cleaner, that it's faster, or that it even achieves the CPC's goals. All the evidence points to a country that is recovering from being dismembered by the most brutal genociders in history (the North Atlantic empire system) and doing everything it can to avoid being checkmated by a psychopathic society that regular writes op eds about winning nuclear war.

Go find articles from China about how invasion would be faster and cleaner. Go find articles from China that they don't care who dies because they're traitors anyway. Go find articles from China saying that they must expand their empire in all directions and win a nuclear war to claim their place as global hegemon. You can't because they don't write them. That's all Eurofascism speaking. You are so convinced that there are people as evil or even more evil than your society out there and you have taken to simply disbelieving all evidence to the contrary.

You are fully bought in. You are ride or die white supremacist empire. You are ready to nuke China if that's what the US leaders say is the only solution to the Yellow Peril. You are fully cooked.