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2019-01-03 China-Japan-Koreas

Xi: Nobody can change fact Taiwan is part of China

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Posted by Fred 2019-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 Unless they suddenly built several thousand amphibious assault craft, Taiwan has nothing to fear. They don't call the theoretical Chinese invasion "the million man swim" for nothing.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-01-03 02:53|| 2019-01-03 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 The Taiwanese can.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-03 03:59|| 2019-01-03 03:59|| Front Page Top

#3 conflating race/culture with country.
Sort of like the UK claiming all English speaking countries.

Posted by 3dc 2019-01-03 06:27|| 2019-01-03 06:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Formosa has not been part of China since the medieval period. The fact that Formosa was invaded by Japanese and later ethnic Chinese doesn't change that according to international law as far as I know.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-03 10:13|| 2019-01-03 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 For most of its history, the inhabitants of Formosa were aboriginals and not ethnic Chinese.

The Chinese (other than a few farmers) had no real interest in Formosa/Taiwan until the mid-1600's. One of the emperors actually called it "a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization".

The Spanish and Dutch were there as settlers (trading ports) a half-century before the Chinese, so do Madrid and Amsterdam have a say in this too?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-01-03 11:24|| 2019-01-03 11:24|| Front Page Top

#6 If you had a truly free, secret and democratic referendum in both China and Taiwan:

a) Would the people of Taiwan want to join China?
b) Would the people of China want to join Taiwan?

Posted by European Conservative 2019-01-03 18:06|| 2019-01-03 18:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Taiwan is also part of the Pacific. So what?

It is newspeak anyway.

Posted by Angaiper Slinerong2336 2019-01-03 18:08|| 2019-01-03 18:08|| Front Page Top

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