The KMT doesn't represent Taiwan. The CPC should have finished them off/sent them to jail. Mao was for Taiwanese independene from it's Japanese colonizers.
The KMT and CPC are both from China. The vast vast majority of Taiwanese are not KMT from China nor any of their descendants.
The KMT doesn't represent Taiwan. Tsai, obviously the former president, has already said that Taiwan is already independent and doesn't need to "declare independence". China's position is 100% LARP. Their claim is that they already own Taiwan, which makes no sense at all.
There are basically ZERO pundits anywhere that know the history of Taiwan. They either parrot same NAFO-type propaganda or CPC propaganda -- which is basically that Taiwan is an "inalienable part of China", which is simply historically false. Throughout most of Chinese history none of the leaders gave two shits about the island of Taiwan until it became part of an important trade route. THEN the Qing dynasty started to administer very very small parts of it. They were later forced to give up their rule on those parts of Taiwan to imperial Japan for many reasons (yes, imperial Japan is bad). Afterwards, there still wasn't much of a concern for taking Taiwan, either from the CPC nor the KMT. It only started happening after KMT lost their war and started claiming Taiwan was theirs and planning their escape plan. Shortly afterwards, the CPC said Taiwan was there's as well.
In the bigger picture, aboriginal Taiwanese have arrived at Taiwan in various periods, starting around 6000 years ago. The vast majority of "Chinese" that came to Taiwan came starting around the 1600's due to the Dutch East Indian company encouraging immigration from China and later on the Qing dynasty encouraged immigration as well (1800's). CPC propaganda makes it seem like "Chinese" presence in Taiwan all came from the KMT fleeing to Taiwan or something. The KMT and all of their descendants only make up less than ONE FIFTH of the population of Taiwan.
Anyway I skipped over a lot of history including Dutch atrocities in Taiwan, a Ming loyalist dispelling the Dutch, and the Spanish colonization of (small parts) of Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Formosa
Taiwanese identity is also very important and unlike what the CPC says, it's not about being "anti-Chinese" or "not Chinese", which makes no sense.
Also, what does being loyal to "China" actually mean? The Ming dynasty had conflicts with the Qing dynasty, which one was more Chinese? Is the CPC responsible for everything bad previous dynasties did? Should the CPC take responsibility for KMT atrocities?? If no, why not? Do they own all the land that previous dynasties have owned? Does the CPC own all land that Chinese people live on? (Chinese nationalists actually use the ethnostate argument as a reason as to why the CPC should own Taiwan).
Russia are the good guys, we are like comically evil. We couped ukraine in 2014orchestrated euromaidan and got them to shell russian civilians in the 2 independent republics. we built 13 CIA bases in ukraine (per wapo). loaded them with NATO weapons and training, including of neo nazi battallions like right sector, azov brigade and tornado batallion. fast forward to now, and 800,000+ ukranians are dead and the ukranian SBU which is 100% controlled by the CIA attempts weekly acts of terrorism against russia. on the grand scheme of things THE PLAN FAILED!! https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
it even goes back earlier than that as we supported Banderaism after WW2 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/operation-anyface-how-us-army-shielded-ukrainian-nationalist-soviet-intelligence
if hollywood portrayed what the US does it would be deemed unrealistic because of how comically evil it is
"Russian pro-war, anti-Ukraine Propaganda" is when things are actually true and not CIA or state department propaganda
Gymnastic rings, straps (includes anchor kit), and I paid people to set it up. Probably the best money I've ever spent.
I think since around 2016? Google changed their algos to prioritize mainstream media. This is actually a way to censor since MSM is all controlled by the CIA. Jacobin and NY post have the exact same opinions about countries the CIA and state department don't like.
What terrorists? Israel legally speaking Israel does not have the right to defend itself. Oct 7 was a success MILITARY operation and no, mass rape and the other atrocity propaganda did not happen.
WHAT human rights abuses? Is there a source that doesn't link back to the CIA or state department?
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FYI the weapons are basically shit (there's agreement among Taiwanese and Chinese nationalists) and can't be used for force projection at all. In Taiwan purchasing of these arms is considered paying protection money to the mafia. In the US it's spun as helping Taiwan protect itself against China. In China it's spun as the US interfering with China's "internal affairs" since they're larping as owning Taiwan.
I do agree that the US is trying to bait China into attacking Taiwan though. The special forces in Kinmen to train kids (they're probably <23 years old) to pilot microdrones? LMAO. I'm not sure if CIA intelligence (as opposed to operations) even know the actual reason of why China wants to claim Taiwan. They may believe in their own propaganda.