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you're muddying the waters and it's absolutely relevant (History and historical context is always relevant). In 1949, the Republic of China retreated to the island of Taiwan and continues to this day to claim to be the government (in exile) of China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_the_government_of_t...

This isn't a simple border dispute between separate countries. It's a governance dispute between two competing claims to a single country.

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> This isn't a simple border dispute between separate countries. It's a governance dispute between two competing claims to a single country.

Actually it's not even theoretically a single country. The "China" officially claimed officially by the ROC is quite different than the "China" officially claimed by the PRC. The difference between the claims it at least Mongolia.

But you are correct it's not a simple border dispute. It is a complicated border dispute that has gone on a couple generations now. But it's also complicated dispute between two separate countries. It is quite clearly you who are trying to muddy the waters here.

This is pretty funny though, if I've understood this correctly. People in the West always seem to think that a properly democratic government made by the chinese people (be it those in Taiwan or those in China) would be "peaceful", but to me if I look at a map and observe the lands Taiwan claims for herself, it seems quite a lot (if they do actually claim the rights to governing the China-China too, and not just Taiwan the Island)

> This is pretty funny though, if I've understood this correctly. People in the West always seem to think that a properly democratic government made by the chinese people (be it those in Taiwan or those in China) would be "peaceful", but to me if I look at a map and observe the lands Taiwan claims for herself, it seems quite a lot (if they do actually claim the rights to governing the China-China too, and not just Taiwan the Island)

Are you making the claim that Taiwan's official historical claims somehow make the current country not peaceful? How exactly? Exactly what belligerent actions has Taiwan engaged in recently?

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