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Sounds like you live on a different planet entirely.
Taiwan(ROC) has been independent since 1912, 40 years before the PRC even existed. Taiwan doesn't want independence because it already is, despite all the geopolitical shenanigans. The idea that the US is somehow provoking China to invade another country is of course an odd notion at best.
Also when HK was given over the the PRC folks in Hong Kong didn't mind because HK was an economic powerhouse compared to the mainland and the deal was hands off for 50 years. HK would remain autonomous. But China violently broke that deal a while ago.
And sure, the US has a history of violence, but no country is innocent of that, Mao even managed to kill 30 million of his own countrymen in just 3 years time.
Granted, the US is on a descending slope, but to think the world will just accept Chinese morality in it's stead is farfetched. China has almost no allies, and it has an antagonistic relationship with most of it's neighbours. It's wants to be the world's steward but it's acting like an abusive uncle.
We may live in a different universe after all, you may live in the land of fiction and that may explain your reasoning.
The ROC's government was taken over by the nationalist Kuomintang when they lost the Chinese Civil War against the Communists, then the US and UK propped them up to maintain a millitary foothold in the region against the rising Communist-bloc nation. The KMT massacred many who opposed them in what is known as the "White Terror." Today, polling with Taiwan indicates precisely what I said, independence and integration are minority opinions. Meanwhile, the US constantly runs millitary simulations near the coast of the mainland between them in an effort to terrorize and provoke the PRC into taking the first move.
For Hong Kong, you're batting for British dictatorial colonialism and against what the majority of people wanted, despite "One Country, Two Systems" being established all the way back in 1997. They have already been integrated with China, the protests were largely sparked by controversies over extradition laws (and the protests are nowhere to be seen, anymore).
Attributing famine in a developing agrarian country entirely to Mao and washing aside the intentional genocidal Imperialism the US has performed in order to pursue profits is nonsense. You're comparing a mass murderer for profit to a country that went through massive economic hardship in pulling itself out of a century of US and UK colonialism, along with Japanese colonialism. And guess what? The US committed genocide on the Indigenous Americans for their land, and used slave labor to develop, and to this day is massacring innocents right this second in places like Yemen.
Moreover, China has countless allies. The US millitary occupations in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan don't alone mean that China is always seen as a "bully." Plenty of its neighbors see it as friends, and year after year more people sign up for BRI and BRICS. More and more nations turn away from US loans that come with clauses requiring privatization of state industry for Chinese loans that don't come with such stipulations, and now even the EU is turning away from the US and towards the PRC.
You have nothing, you wash the intentional and deliberate murder of millions for the profits of a handful of US elites under the rug in a desparate attempt to draw equivalence between the world's largest and bloodiest Empire and a country that hasn't been at war in many decades.
Do some introspection, this is utterly nonsense.
"I promise I won't get political"
Do you know why so many of them see the status quo as the best option?
Meant that to say Taiwan, which is what the source reflects. And yes, I'm familiar, it's a complicated issue juggling US investment and millitarization, and economic ties with the PRC. Presumably de-escalation and normalization would be most popular if the US would agree to that.
Ah, makes sense I suppose. I can see how the US does benefit from the status quo too in relations to the PRC so they wouldn’t want to let that go. Thanks!
(Also I didn’t notice that mistake either, oops. I meant Taiwan as well)
Yep! It's not a specifically US Strategy to try to millitarize footholds on the borders of countries it is hostile to in order to pressure and threaten them, other countries have done the same throughout history, but the US is by far the country doing it the most in modern times and it isn't close.
🤣 This is stunningly ignorant. I guess the “garden” represents the whole world to you, and the “jungle” doesn’t even exist. Yet BRICS represents 60% of the world’s population and produces more than G7, and has more land and more natural resources. It is the imperial core that is losing allies from the periphery at a quick pace to China. In fact the imperial core itself seems to be teetering on a fracturing: Will Trump’s Tariffs Drive Europe Into China’s Arms, or Into a Fight?
Uhm, China's only official ally is North Korea, thanks to the recently renewed Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty.
China's base Djibouti is but one of many foreign bases there, and is not the result of some alliance between the two countries.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.