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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, Atlanticists are imperialists and should be condemned, but your view is rather unhelpful since it means the vast majority of statements connected to the UN since ~1980 fall under the same view. It's not like the PRC denies that the RoC government exists and effectively controls the island of Formosa, in our context it is just a rhetorical affectation to the effect of the RoC government not being legitimate, which is a pretty fair stance to take given the RoC's own positively absurd territorial claims.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Libs: I support Taiwan because China is bad

Leftists: do you support the 11 dash line then?

Libs: ???

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

The ROC's territorial claims are a side effect of the PRC's stance on Taiwan. I don't remember the exact details but essentially the PRC has previously declared that it would interpret any change in the ROC's territorial claims as a declaration of war. It's a matter of pragmatism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Given that the civil war never technically ended, I'm pretty sure a "declaration of war" just reinforces the status quo.