freediver wrote on Nov 19
th, 2025 at 12:02pm:
The vast majority of Taiwan's citizens want Taiwan to (continue to be) independent of China.
Vast majority?
Yet:
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/26/g-s1-79704/taiwanese-voters-reject-a-bid-to-remov...26 July 2025 — The independence-leaning ruling Democratic Progressive Party won the last presidential election, but the China-friendly Nationalists (KMT) and the Taiwan Workers Party won the recent 'recall elections':
Taiwanese voters rejected a DPP bid to oust about one-fifth of lawmakers, all from the opposition Nationalist Party, in a recall election Saturday, dampening hopes for the ruling party to flip the balance of power in the self-ruled island's legislature.
The independence-leaning ruling Democratic Progressive Party won last year's presidential election, but the China-friendly Nationalists, also known as the KMT, and the smaller Taiwan People's Party have enough seats to form a majority bloc.......
You can see why the pro-independence DPP 'freedom or death' morons want to get rid of the more pragmatic members of parliament who want peace with the mainland and therefore don't support 'Taiwan independence'.
Quote:Unlike China, Taiwan is a democracy and the citizens are allowed to inform themselves, criticise the government and openly debate the issue. They are not constantly spoonfed lies by the government like the citizens of China have to put up with.
Says the narrative from another 'freedom - or death'! ideologue who won't do the dying (hopefully...) when the DPP tries to assert it's "freedom", ie, independence from the mainland.
Meanwhile most mainlanders are horrified by the fake 'freedom' of blind-leading-the-blind 'democracy', after seeing the Capitol riots in the US.
Quote:The international community is increasingly supporting Taiwan's continued independence.
Said 'independence' not recognised by the UN? You are confused.
Quote:However, China still claims Taiwan as part of it's territory. Some Taiwanese even claim China as part of Taiwan's territory. Obviously, neither of these views reflect the current reality.
Resulting in a sovereignty stalemate, so long as the US supports the DPP goons, on ideological grounds.
Quote:Should China recognise the current reality that Taiwan is an independent nation with a political system that is incompatible with China's, making it virtually impossible to peacefully unite the nations with the support of Taiwan's people?
No.
Political systems are really only confused systems resulting from
dysfunctional economic systems ("it's the economy, stupid"); hence the political chaos in most democracies around the world today.
Quote:The alternative, continuing to claim that Taiwan is part of China, is seen as a imperialist threat that heightens military tensions in the region and abroad.
..ie, as seen by 'freedom or death''/survival of the fittest/free-market ideologues.
Quote: The only foreseeable way that China and Taiwan could be peacefully re-united into a single country is if China itself became a democracy - which may well happen, though the current CCP regime sees democracy as a dirty word, even though the CCP is internally democratic. Just one example of the impenetrable hypocrisy and spin of the CCP.
Hey....congratulations: an intelligent comment at last; indeed "the CCP is internally democratic", and appreciated by the vast majority of mainlanders (c.90%, according to a Harvard poll) who in fact have a favourable opnion of their central government, unlike the view of the electors in democracies who are split into numerous contending interests, and forced to elect unstable governments despised by more than half the population, eg Labor only gained 30% of the primary vote in the last election, yet it's governing with a huge majority in the HoR.
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