Is this controversial? Don’t people in Taiwan consider themselves Chinese? Republic of China?
No, that is only the official line due to history and political pressure from China.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Taiwanese_identity
China’s leader Xi Jinping declared people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese and want peace.
Isn’t that pretty much what Putin said about Ukraine before invading?
Also Hitler called Austrians German before annexing them.
I also don’t think it’s anything new?
I’m not sure deep into the details of taiwan and china, but iirc they both more or less agree that they are “the china”, and just disagree on the exact details
It’s a common scheme, Authoritarian claims people in neighbouring country are ethnically/culturally the same as them, accuses the target country of suppressing “their” people, invades to “Protect” “their” people. Rinse and repeat.
Idk but I believe the pretext was ethnically “Russian” people living in Ukrainian territories. It is true that the two countries share a great deal of ethnic heritage. The Rus people were from Kyiv.
No it was nothing of the kind. He claimed Ukrainians were basically Russian, that is not about Russian minorities.
A common misunderstanding: Putin wants a piece of Ukraine. Quite a big piece, well all of it really.
