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As a Chinese-American residing in the US, I really have to smile when white people think they can "stick it" to China. Westerners, in particular white people, are threatened by Asian faces gaining power in the Far East, and so they demonize my country and countrymen and make up ridiculous stories about how much of a scary Orwellian hellhole China is. And of course they indulge in their white savior narrative and try to portray themselves as sooo much better than China. They are not so noble. If Westerners think they can keep goading my country one day they just might regret it. I used to think that China should continue being pacifist (not waging war) but I think it is now necessary given the rising hostility from the USA and other white/white-adjacent nations that are threatened by Chinese/Asian dominance. Given the rising tensions I wonder if the party leadership should just say "f it" and do a rapid reunification Taiwan as soon as possible and risk the economic damage. They have the nukes, afterall.

I’m not white and I don’t believe it’s right that a woman should be politically silenced for speaking out about sexual abuse she encountered.

Perhaps not everything is about ‘sticking it’ to your homeland.

agreed. it's wild how fast a potential operative jumps on this thread and gets hostile about people being upset over human rights violations.

human rights are not supposed to be just a "westerner" thing, it's human rights not western rights.

no person should be treated as subhuman. all people deserve a chance at being free no matter what nation they live in.

and if a organization decides they don't want to support a country because of human rights violations, then good. i support that organization for being on the right side of history.

I support Human Rights, but our problem then becomes the Power/Violence required to enforce those Human Rights.

We're so fucked in this Clown Timeline(tm)

Actually no evidence she has been silenced.

You I'm sure do not want to 'stick it' to China, but you are perhaps unwittingly playing your little part in that process.

Ironic also how the comment yours above has been censored for not towing the Western line.

There is, in fact, evidence that she has been silenced.

> do a rapid reunification Taiwan as soon as possible and risk the economic damage

Did you mean to say "hostile takeover of an independent nation"? China hasn't controlled Taiwan in recent history.

Taiwan is not recognized as an independent nation by the U.S.

>Taiwan is not recognized as an independent nation by the U.S.

While that might have some relevance in the US, I'd be more inclined to ask the Taiwanese if they are an independent nation. AFAIK, they believe so.

Should the Taiwanese be subject to the whims of the US? Or of the CCP, for that matter? I think not.

Taiwan claims that it is China. So its territorial claims encompass all of existing mainland China and actually bits of India and other countries as well. They claim the CCP has been too soft on maintaining Chinese territorial sovereignty. So ironically the Government in Taiwan is actually more expansionist than the Government on the mainland.

Survey shows only 5% of people in Taiwan think they are Chinese and not Taiwanese. What you are referring to is the de jure side of things. Taiwan is a de facto sovereignty and doesn't not have border dispute with India or building islands in SCS.

> They claim the CCP has been too soft on maintaining Chinese territorial sovereignty.

Never heard.

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