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China says Australia must accept Taiwan reunification or face ‘no forgiveness’
(www.theaustralian.com.au)
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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The arm of the Chinese state tasked with annexing Taiwan posting images showing Taiwanese as vermin to be exterminated is "scraping small things".
I don't want US involvement in Taiwan, I want Taiwan and China to have better relations on the basis that there's two countries on opposite sides of the Taiwan Strait. I don't want yanks like you to benefit from war in Asia-Pacific.
Most Taiwanese I talk to want the same, but have to swallow sending money to the US for weapons in order to keep their way of life.
China could pull back on the ultimatum of annexation and allow those relations to flourish, instead it is ratcheting up the tension through drills simulating blockading Taiwan and starving it's population into submission (against UN Charter but we don't care about that in tankie land if China does it), and bombing dense population centres.
Edit: also where did you get that map lmao? Looks like it's from the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis which is in the fucking 50s
Yes, choosing to editorialize a few small images on a poster as depicting the Han Chinese in Taiwan as vermin to be exterminated, when there is 50 years of diplomatic evidence that this is not the perspective of the Chinese government. Yes. You are scraping.
You're too educated to be this ignorant. I have to assume you're being totally disingenuous.
The US got involved in Taiwan to punish China when China decided to support the Korean people trying to push the US imperialists off the peninsula. When the US got involved, they supported the 40 year white terror. The white terror involved purging the island of entire families where anyone even mentioned maybe rejoining the mainland and ending the civil war. 40 fucking years of violent fascist repression while the US built up its imperial military logistics and infrastructure in its psychotic quest to violent destroy communism in China.
The island's current "way of life" is only about 30 years old at this. Democratic reforms were introduced at the same time they were introduced in Hong Kong. That's not a coincidence. But more importantly, that democratic transition happened with the US military already fully integrated into the society. The idea that they are somehow forced to buy weapons to maintain their way of life is totally disingenuous. They were buying weapons long before they abandoned overt violent fascism and the only reason China is threatening violence is literally because of foreign military interference. Again, China has been consistent on that for 50 years.
China's recent escalations of the preparation of force can be explained in two ways: 1) they just decided after 50 years to finally just get violent because they're irrational fascists or 2) the material threat to national security has gotten worse.
Given ALL the evidence that we have available to us, from Afghanistan to Libya to Somalia to Iran to Nigeria to Venezuela, do we genuinely think that the national security threat from the US is not at the highest it's been since the 1950s?
And yes, the image I provided is older. I don't have an updated map of all US military threats and strategic positions in Taiwan. That's sort of irrelevant though, as the US has only continuously increased its military investment in Taiwan.
Kinda wish there was more real discussion and less propaganda/aislop.
Y'all are boring, can't even tell you apart without reading your username every time.
Lol that's a fair take
LOL imagine reading a multi-paragraoh debate providing historical context for claims and thinking it's all AI slop
There's no reason for Taiwan to peacefully unify with China.
Taiwan is incredibly rich, Taiwanese enjoy a stable welfare state that would make even the Nordics jealous. They can govern themselves and manage their national budget, which through the TSMC golden goose, is pretty fat.
Culturally, China is way behind. Look at the KTV songs and the "classic movies" in the Sinosphere, they're most likely all from Taiwan.
A lot of Taiwanese look at Chinese modern culture, way of life, mannerisms and think it's quite tacky.
So yeah, all in all, the only reason Taiwan would join China is to get protected from what China would do if it doesn't. It's equally imperialist
Due to direct foreign investment from the West. It's a tiny island nation that doesn't have enough sand to produce chips without importing from China. Taiwan is not rich, it is well connected.
China accounts for over 80% of world poverty alleviation for the last century.
Again. Dependent entirely on Chinese imports and dependent heavily on Western markets and investors.
Holy shit. Taiwan shouldn't integrate because TV is lame in China? Listen to yourself for a second.
Yeah, almost like they're acting like the Brits and Yanks who look down on lower status people to the point that it's literally a national zeitgeist.
That is so fucking myopic, I am ashamed I am even responding. Taiwan cannot defend itself from Japan let alone the US. It's a protectorate with a comprador class that the imperialists keep fat and happy to maintain their imperial military presence. If Taiwan ever decided to snub the US, they would have no ability to defend themselves.
The CPC doesn't believe Taiwan is ready to integrate. They believe it will take many years. They also believe that forcing it to happen will be catastrophic. The path to integration relies on the continued collapse of the West. As the West does, Taiwan will have more and more reason to integrate. The challenge for the CPC is managing the critical moment where as the West is dying it attempts to destroy China. And Taiwan is a major component of the West's ability to attack China.
So long as the West does not advance its military power through Taiwan, China will leave the island alone and it will eventually integrate when it becomes rational to do so. But if the West moves to expand the military threat to China, it's a signal that they will not allow their civilization to collapse without attempting to destroy China and China cannot allow that to happen.