I've seen a lot of liberals saying things along the lines of "but if we don't follow the rules based order it will set a bad precedent! What's stopping China now deciding to invade Taiwan on the justification that they don't like their government?"

Edit: oh fuck I didn't scroll down into the comments there's already one here

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 days ago

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The situation is quite different, China has every right to do so. Because every country has the right to conclude its civil war. Such a civil war is still ongoing between the PRC (Peoples Republic of China - "China") and RoC(Republic of China - "Taiwan"), both claim to be the legitimate government of the entity China. The reason the PLA did not finish the job in the 40s was US intervention and the start of the korean war.

This is a completely internal matter for China according to international law.

[–] Oppopity@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's absolutely an internal matter but I'd still like to see a peaceful conclusion. That said it would be really funny if China did just pull a US and kidnap their president to take over it only for all the liberals to then cry and blame Trump for setting a bad precedence. Of course that would never happen though and they would immediately pivot their talking points back to China bad.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

A peaceful conclusion is certainly preferable.

only for all the liberals to then cry and blame Trump for setting a bad precedence.

Liberals are unable to do this. The creation of Kosov and the preceeding illegal bombing campaign on Jugoslawia set the precedent for Russias actions in Ukraine. Libs are mighty silent about this fact.