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Think of Hong Kong when you vote, Taiwan president says (www.japantimes.co.jp)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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'Look at Hong Kong and think of Taiwan,' Tsai Ing-wen said. 'We don't want Hong Kong-style peace. We want dignified peace.'

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Believe it or not, a lot of younger Taiwanese people want to rejoin the mainland. Not exactly a majority yet, but it's getting pretty close.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

What is your source for this ? Recent polls show reunification support is still <2%, with about 6% open to reunification eventually but not now.

In 2018, before the crackdown in HK, the reunification support was 3%, with 13% open to it eventually - the events in HK have definitely significantly eroded support for reunification in Taiwan.

I have family in Taiwan and literally don't know a single Taiwanese person that wants reunification with the PRC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Source?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Foreign influence operations exist because they work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's a dogwater (approaching racist) argument and you know it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not parent poster, but I didn't read that at all. International propaganda works, and has the potential to destroy democracy in America (and lots of other countries, too.)

What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They're implying that the people who live there can't make a decision for themselves, in other words a white guy overseas with zero stake in the matters thinks they know more about the reality than the people who actually live there, which is a very disrespectful prospective.

The racism comes from the long history of white people doing this to peoples who choose for themselves in ways that they don't agree with. It's never that they chose for themselves but always that someone else (usually malicious) came in and made the decision for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wouldnt the foreign influencer in the context of this comment tree be china though?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but there's no doubt in my mind they were running the "vassal state chooses to align with enemy state" script.