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Imperialism isn't just "annexing territory." China isn't trying to aggressively invade Tawian, they are waiting for when Taiwan wants to be reunited, and they have good reason to believe they will eventually.
Well, as I said, if the people of Taiwan are ever willing to unify with the PRC then I will support it. But they don't, they never have, and I see no reason to believe they ever will soon. China's insistence that Taiwan is currently and always has been a part of China does not seem to me like waiting for consent of the people.
It seems to me like, yet again, you haven't done the necessart research and are just parroting the US State Department narrative.
I couldn't care less about what the US government has to say on the matter. As I feel I've made abundantly clear, I do not believe Taiwan should be a part of the PRC because the people of Taiwan do not wish to be a part of the PRC. Any other factors are fairly insignificant compared to that. Even your pro-PRC article clearly states the statistics - that reunification is extremely unpopular to the people of Taiwan - so I really doubt that is western propaganda or the US narrative.
You don't care, you just stop any and all reading where it affirms your pre-existing bias, a bias formed largely by the State Department's influence over mass media. No situation is static, and if you ignore the forces at play you'll always be caught off-guard anytime change occurs.
As I said, if the opinion of the people of Taiwan change to be in favor of reunification then I will also support it, regardless of what western influences want. I understand the situation is complex but consent and self-determination are not.
Again, my stance on Taiwan is simple: because the people of Taiwan do not wish to be part of the PRC, I do not believe they should be. Do you disagree with me?
I believe you are deliberately ignoring the complexities of the situation, because reality challenges your preconceived notions.
If those complexities were significant enough, then the people of Taiwan would support reunification. Like you said yourself earlier, these people aren't stupid. If it was best for them to be a part of the PRC they would support that, but they overwhelmingly wouldn't. And, to be clear, this is not even close. Your own source said it was less than 8% of the population wanted reunification. That's one of the most overwhelmingly unpopular opinions I've ever seen in politics.
This conversation started with you arguing that the PRC was so great because the people of the PRC believed it to be. That the PRC should be the way it is because thats what the people want. And now here we are, talking about a people who overwhelmingly think they should not be a part of the PRC, and now suddenly "what the people want" isn't valid anymore? Why was that valid when it was in favor of the PRC but is invalid when it isn't? Maybe you're right that I have a bias and preconceived notions, but you clearly do too.
Again, nothing is static, and you assume long and protracted processes produce immediate results. Your deliberate refusal to read into anything that might challenge your pre-existing notions is not productive.
I know it's not static, thats why I said I would support reunification if the people of Taiwan did. You, however, are refusing to acknowledge your own biases and hypocrisy on this matter.
There are no hypocricies on my end. I am absolutely biased, and so are you. Everyone is biased. What's important is that I've done the research to support why I believe broad approval of the PRC will continue in China, whike you've refused to do the research on Taiwan's complexities. There is a large gap in knowledge, I don't simply believe that just because a single chart says China is democratic that it is, I believe it because it corroborates everything else I know to be true.