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Johns Hopkins coronavirus map changes “Taiwan” to “Taipei and environs”

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is it the time to stop kowtowing to the the Chinese government?

the way I see it it is the PRC use their clout to bully individual Nations with the knowledge that other nations will happily take their money so they can threaten to remove this money and find another country to fund. If all Nations start rejecting the PRC worldview on things like calling Taiwan, Taiwan and not so readily accepting the government views they will not be able how to use that influence anymore. this would also reduce their legitimacy at home. now is the time to break trying to strangle hold on manufacturing which is basically what supports there are entire economy and as a result keeps the government in power.

Alternatively, we are dealing with a worldwide crisis requiring close collaboration and cooperation between nations across numerous fields and disciplines. As a world power and the first country to encounter the virus, China's help is particularly important. Why kick a hornet's nest now and risk that collaboration when we need it most?

The CCP (China Communist Party) has steadfastly refused to cooperate with anyone, and their own paranoia let this become a big problem for all of us. If anything, the CCP needs to grow up and start acting a little rationally, because the way they are acting now is downright scary.

The CCP is blaming the US, claiming that the US Army created this virus and infected them. The CCP is ostracizing Taiwan by belligerently going after the most inane things, and attempting to control speech outside of their country. The CCP is literally taking organs out of healthy people and putting them into more deserving CCP members.

Where does it end?

I think the CCP is hanging on by the skin of their teeth. They have to make a huge show of this to scare the people into believing the CCP is still in control. Remember, before this even happened China had to maintain ridiculous economic growth rates to quell social unrest. Well the Trump admin was hurting them and now add on a pandemic. The next few years are going to be very precarious for the CCP.

Apologies for being inflammatory, but screw the CCP. The world needs to knock them down a few pegs.

Saying China is "the first country to encounter the virus" is an incredibly generous way of putting it. People don't eat bats and pangolins because they want to - they eat them because they're poor. The CCP is the architect of the widespread poverty which created the disease in the first place.

Bats and pangolins are not poor people's food. If a poor farmer poaches a pangolin, they're more likely to try selling it to someone who's seeking the thrill of exotic food. I found a Zhihu answer that's mostly talking about how pangolins are protected animals and you'll get fined if you get caught, but it also mentions one case where a pangolin changed hands for 1800 RMB: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/89829943

Yes, Taiwan is an independent and sovereign nation. The US sells defensive arms to Taiwan. If it were not a separate country, how would this be allowed to happen?

The US sells lots of arms to, for instance, splinter terrorist groups that are not separate countries - including the Taliban! Over the long term it's been the leading state sponsor of terrorism!

This isn't trying to call Taiwan terrorist, but if the US will arm the Taliban or Contras, why would it not be allowed to arm Taiwan as a separatist group?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban%27s_rise_to_power#Alle... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...

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