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If so, was it polled somewhere?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

China (see taiwan, tibet)

Russia (see crimea/ukraine)

Wow you just got dunked on.

Seethe

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tibet was a theocratic slave state before being liberated.
Neither the UN, the EUs member nations, the US or Taiwan thinks Taiwan is a country.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's okay to be wrong, Taiwan is a beautiful country. Sorry if that makes you upset.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love being wrong! It means I get to learn new things. I am for example happy to learn that we have a user here from either Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, or Tuvalu, since these are the only places that regonize Taiwan as a country.
I am very sorry to hear what climate change is doing to your wonderful island/country! I hope your government is working towards a good future.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Taiwan doesn't recognise Taiwanese independence. Let that sink in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Note that they said "Most involved" Russia, for instance, has always been the modern "Sick man of Europe" since the fall of the USSR. It's imperial aspirations don't extend as far. And it's relationship to the historic Core of the US and Western Europe, is as a semi-peripheral nation trying to coalesce a regional sphere of influence with itself as the center of gravity. None of that makes it a Core country though.

Maybe if the current world system collapses, and it filled that vacuum. But that hasn't happened.

Imperial Core refers to the World Systems Theory of International Relations, first put forward by Immanuel Wallerstien. I would suggest you read up on the topic before making half-baked responses like this.

[–] PutangInaMo 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US (see native Americans)

Spain (see Cuba/ Mexico)

Wow you just got touchdowned on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Canada (see indigenous)

Wow you just mega-mollywhopped inside of.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

wait, do you think calling canada a genocidal colonist state in the imperial core is an own to us?

Thats literally our point

[–] PutangInaMo 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are we making a list together or not?

I guess it's just me; here

Score several more for China, more current too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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