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> I wish whole of EU would declare in unison support for Taiwan.

Sure, Spain can take a break from hunting down Catalonian referendum politicians in France, or hunting down the Basque separatists that Franco didn't wipe out in Guernica, and can declare Taiwan should be an independent country.

The British PM can visit soldiers in Thiepval, Holywood or other UK barracks in north Ireland and declare support of Taiwan breaking off of China.

The Italian newspapers can take a break from condemning the northern League wanting to break off from Italy and form another country, and praise Taiwanese independence.

Maybe after an EU council meeting denouncing the people of Crimea voting to be annexed into Russia, we can have an opening of Taiwanese embassies in preparation for Taiwan announcing a break from China.

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Catalonia, the Basque region, Ireland, etc are not comparable to Taiwan. Taiwan _is_ a separate country today already. There is no separatist movement. It’s all just Chinese propaganda. (Officially Taiwan has similar claims, but they clearly have stopped actually exercising them hence that fact isn’t really relevant).

If you want a more accurate comparison it would would be as if Spain started claiming that Portugal is a part of its territory and pushing the world to accept that position.

Italian here. The separatists you’re talking about are absolutely a thing of the past and they were never serious to start with. There is no actual separatist movement, and the one still in it usually didn’t even finish middle school. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t even make the connection.

> Maybe after an EU council meeting denouncing the people of Crimea voting to be annexed into Russia

I think the problem there was that the vote came after the annexation. Or the voting method was so untrustworthy it might as well have been made up.

Impressively colourful whataboutism.

Are we supposed to order them by which may be even close to what we see with Taiwan or doesn't it matter at all?

The parent you are responding to has a very colorful comment history too, with a certain theme to it. Strangely only in political threads.

> political threads

I thought this was a discussion site about "hacking and startups".

If there's enough daily top of the front page US/EU bash China/Russia/Iran/Cuba/Venezuela (put your developing country not bowing down to the west here) threads for someone to have a "colorful comment history", then maybe this new focus of the site can be updated in the about section.

I wonder if you're aware how transparent your strategies of derailment are here.

This is not twitter or something.

We see what you're doing.

It's not complicated.

> the northern League wanting to break off from Italy and form another country

This isn't the 90's, that stuff died down when we all united against the africans. [1] There's no separatist movement in Italy other than in fringe groups on Facebook. Definitely much less than "Texas wanting to secede" anyway.

Supporting Taiwan is really not a question of opposing local separatist movements (at least in Italy) as much as just "losing China" and all that it'd entail.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2KTI_mZ0v4

This video is satire, racist POV

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