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What's happening in Taiwan? Why did a presidential candidate said something like this? In another country, a presidential candidate telling people to not supporting their own country's sovereignty would be a political suicide.
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.
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.
Source?
Foreign influence operations exist because they work.
That's a dogwater (approaching racist) argument and you know it.
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?
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.
Wouldnt the foreign influencer in the context of this comment tree be china though?
Yeah but there's no doubt in my mind they were running the "vassal state chooses to align with enemy state" script.
That's the reason US spends billions on shit like NED, USAID, and other programs to interfere in countries around the world.