freediver wrote on Dec 6
th, 2025 at 12:50pm:
You are deluded little pink. I am merely waiting for some sense to come out of your gibberish first.
"Gibberrish"....that Taiwan is part of China, and the mainlanders' gdp per capita will reach developed nation status (as opposed to their current 'middle income ' status)?
Not gibberish, just plain english stating the fact of the eventual reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, given:
(a) UN res 2758,
and
(b) the increasing growth in the mainland's economy, driven by the 'common prosperity' principle, as opposed to the 'right' to pursue happiness' principle in the US, which by definition
ignores the different capacities of individuals to compete for 'happiness' ie, in the first instance, to acquire the necessities for survival.
Quote:There is not much point in discussing Taiwan's right to exist with you if you cannot even keep up with whether you are talking about Taiwan.
Your brain - crippled by your delusional
"individual freedom/''rights' ideology, is causing you to make this ridiculous claim, when I have been asserting (a) and (b) over this entire debate.
You of course, having lost (a), are hoping to obfuscate by getting lost in the weeds of (b)....to wit:
Quote:Why did you claim you were not talking about Taiwan after I pointed out that the CCP had barely changed the relative income between China and Taiwan over the last decade? And why did you then claim you did not make this claim? And why the several different answers to the same question?
See above: after having lost (a), you are now persisting in nonsensically asserting I wasn't talking about Taiwan.
I'll say it again: both the island and the mainland will have developed-nation per capita incomes in a decade.
Quote:TGDBut time is running out for them: in a decade, over a billion people on the mainland will have a per capita income as high as the islanders
In 2015, Taiwan's per capita GDP was 2.8 times that of China. In 2025, it is 2.5 times as high. Are you saying that in a decade, China might catch up to where Taiwan was a decade ago?
No, I'm saying both will have developed-nation status in a decade, regardless of where Taiwan was a decade ago - try looking forward rather than backwards.
Quote:TGDNo, Im observing growth rates in the mature 'high income' 1st world democracies slow to c. 2%. China will grow at double that rate over the next decade
Exactly -
growth rates of developed nations' economies demonstrably slow-down in comparison to developing nations' economies.
Quote:On top of that, China has a much larger and more severe income disparity than Taiwan
Which will decrease over the next decade, guided by the 'common prosperity' goal - unlike in the US where income inequality is soaring courtesy of the AI boom, and no apparent desire of the central government to reduce this soaring inequality.
Quote:So when you said China would catch up to "the islanders" in a decade, you meant first world democracies, not Taiwan?
No, I meant both.
Quote:Of course, unless you think Taiwan will become the next Leichtenstein
ie a tax haven.
Now ...about 'Taiwan's right to exist' - it already does, and it's part of China.
Get used to it; Trump is brave enough to fight Hamas, and allow the war criminal Netanyahu to permanently obfuscate about UN res 181, but he's not brave enough to declare war on China, in defiance of UN res 2758.
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