China launched its most extensive war games around Taiwan on Monday to showcase Beijing’s ability to cut off the island from outside support in a conflict, testing Taipei’s resolve to defend itself and its arsenal of U.S.-made weapons.
The Eastern Theatre Command said it had deployed troops, warships, fighter jets and artillery for its “Justice Mission 2025” exercises to encircle the democratically governed island, conduct live fire and simulated strikes on land and sea targets, and drills to blockade Taiwan’s main ports.
The live-firing exercises will continue on Tuesday across a record seven zones designated by China’s Maritime Safety Administration, making the drills the largest to date by total coverage and in areas closer to Taiwan than previous exercises. The military had initially said artillery firing would be confined to five zones.
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Surely Trump is just being a good guy selling weapons to heckin wholesome Republic of China (which not only claims officially the entirety of the Mainland, but also the entire country of Mongolia and many lands in Bhutan, Pakistan, India or even Japan). Come on, surely this US involvement in war is the correct one!
Taiwan does not claim Mainland China (source: Executive Yuan - Territory)
I can’t read Chinese, care to provide information on your source?
Because, per the Wikipedia article on territorial disputes:
If I state a nation claims territories, I tend to prioritise first hand sources from the nation in question, rather than second-hand, crowdsourced statements. After a quick translation:
Your source is talking about de-facto control, not de-jure claims, and doesn’t contradict my previous comment on territorial claims at all. It specifically says “under its effective jurisdiction”, i.e. de-facto control.
This de-jure claim is based on a constitution written in 1947 by an irredentist fascist that occupied Taiwan and placed it under martial law, against the will of it’s people. As I said in other comments, any attempts made by Taiwan since democratisation to move away from that constitution are seen as seditious, and, by PRC law, must be intervened with militarily.
You’re conflating an attempt with changing the constitutional claim of continuity over the Chinese empire, with territorial claims over lands outside de-facto PRC. Taiwan could easily simply give up claims over those lands, but it doesn’t
The main argument of the PRC is there is one China, the ROC was the government of that China, the PRC succeeded the ROC as the sole legitimate government of all Chinese territory in 1949. Taiwan was part of the Japanese empire (sovereignty given to Japan by Qing China) for the entirety of the ROC’s lifetime in China, the ROC given administrative rights to Taiwan at the Treaty of San Francisco.
Taiwan giving up those de-jure territorial claims implies Taiwan is a separate entity, the civil war framework dissolves, since there’s no longer a competing government claiming to represent China, just two separate countries, and the succession of states logic breaks.
The moment Taiwan says “we don’t claim the mainland anymore, we just claim Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, …,” it’s a de facto independence declaration.
This is seen by the PRC as sedition and, again, by law, the PRC must intervene militarily to prevent that.
Again, I specifically mentioned: “territorial claims over lands outside de-facto PRC”. Taiwan could maintain its claims over the mainland but give up those over the “Greater China” without implying it’s a separate entity. It’s not the PRC’s business whether Taiwan claims Mongolia.
I feel like anyone who says “Republic of China” is a CCP troll. The comment itself is unhinged. No, Taiwan does not want to conquer most of the Asia, this is simply about stopping another invasion. You’re the baddies, leave others alone, no one wants to invade you.
The picture is from Wikipedia, famous CCP troll organization?
It’s from a constitution written by a warmonger that called himself Generalissimo, in 1947, and imposed the longest (at the time) martial law. Since Taiwan’s democratisation, any move to change even minor parts of the constitution are seen by China as reason for military intervention. The only way the PRC has claim to Taiwan is through a “succession of states”, and that’s why preventing Taiwan from rewriting a constitution written by a coloniser (the Republic of China) is important to them
I agree with everything you said, I just tend not to support the continued states that stem from fascism and don’t have institutional purges in the state apparatus and in the economic powers.
What?
If we’re talking fascism in terms of: belief in the need for a national rebirth (振興中華明民族), militarism, authoritarianism, political purges, the PRC scores much closer to a inter-war fascist European state. Talk to any Chinese and ask them what they think the state’s view on “class struggle” is today.
From your link:
Nothing about removing the people in power from the institutions or the economic powers. It’s about redeeming the victims, but not about transforming the system and putting new people in power.
What you’re looking for was tried by the progressive administrations following democratisation, but faced opposition in the Legislative Yuan, mainly from the opposition KMT party, including rewording of “paying reparations” to “paying compensations” to the victims
It’s absurd to claim Taiwan today is moulded by the White Terror era, or that the administration or political entities have fascist policies.
Again, if we look at the framework of fascism, the PRC is much closer to a fascist definition than Taiwan
My original claim:
Your last comment:
So you agree with my point that public institutions and economic power are tainted with non-purged members of the fascist state? I’m very insistent about this because I happen to be a Spaniard, and I have equal criticism towards my own government, which never purged the political or economical powers after the 1975-1980 transition to bourgeois democracy.
Absolutely ridiculous. Communism is literally the polar opposite of Fascism and has shown this time and time again. All of the land of China, for starters, belongs to the people collectively through the state, and is only leased through 80-year periods to homeowners, directly making impossible the accumulation of wealth through real state. This by itself is more communist than any policy in Taiwan.
Taiwan keeps those claims and this official name because otherwise it would be perceived as declaring Taiwan as a sovereign state, and that would anger China. Such symbolic moves are not seen as worth the risk of Chinese agression by most, or a large part of the Taiwanese population.
Is the government of Taiwan a CCP troll? That’s the official name of Taiwan - The Republic of CHINA.
I just don’t get why America obsesses over this little Island, over say Madagascar.
Madagascar got the same kind of attention from Europe during the colonial era. As a result the people there speak French, and Americans absolutely can’t deal with that.