• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    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?

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      26 days ago

      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

    • vga@sopuli.xyz
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      26 days ago

      Also Hitler called Austrians German before annexing them.

    • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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      26 days ago

      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.

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      26 days ago

      A common misunderstanding: Putin wants a piece of Ukraine. Quite a big piece, well all of it really.

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    26 days ago

    Is this controversial? Don’t people in Taiwan consider themselves Chinese? Republic of China?

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    25 days ago

    No shit? The party line in Taiwan is the exact same as it is in mainland China: one China. The disagreement is over who is in charge. When you get off anplane in Taipei, you see a sign “Welcome to the Republic of China”. When you get off the plane in Beijing, you see a sign that says “Welcome to the Peoples’ Republic of China”.

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    25 days ago

    Authoritarian Chinese gov is better overall, more progressive in R and D, and closer to socialism than USrael gov