Chinese Tensions
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This map may surprise many British readers.
On the left, the black border dashes separate minute islands from mainland China. These tiny islands actually belong to Taiwan.
Also, in the middle of the strait, we see the Pescadore Islands, also belonging to Taiwan. South East of Taiwan there is Orchid Island, the only island still inhabited by the native Formosans.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid_Island#/media/File%3ATaiwan_relief_location_map.jpg
Taiwan was never viewed by Chinese Imperial governments as belonging to them until the Ch’ing (Manchu) government seized the island from Ming rebels in the mid-17th century. The Ming govt. was happy to let the Dutch East India Company use Taiwan for a trading base since it wasn’t considered Chinese territory anyway, whereas the Pescadores were.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7223knz3ezo
Philippines and China stand-off.
Chinese capitalist expansionism in South America:
And some leftwing groups like this one still think that China is somehow “socialist”.
Webinar: China proves that a new world is possible! Delegates report back from China
This, from the German “Gegen Kapital und Nation” (Against Capital and the Nation) group, explains the relationship between China and the US quite well :
I see the “separatist” president of Taiwan is in fact reinforcing the Republic of China motif and flying the KMT sun logo, not the Taiwan independence one, for all his rhetoric against Beijing.
How will China vs Philippines cold war be ended without China taking military action, bringing in the US? Can it remain as it is indefinitely, without triggering war?
Will the US allow Taiwan to declare independence?
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