Robert Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Quote TAIPEI, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Taiwanese voters swept the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te into power on Saturday, strongly rejecting Chinese pressure to spurn him, as China said it would not give up on achieving "reunification". Lai's party, which champions Taiwan's separate identity and rejects China's territorial claims, was seeking a third successive four year term, unprecedented under Taiwan's current electoral system. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/polls-open-taiwans-critical-elections-watched-closely-by-china-2024-01-13/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolution Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Free Taiwan, East Turkestan and Tibet from the colonizer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reymiu Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Good for Taiwan (and world peace)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miracle Whip Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Taiwan is China and will remain Chinese sorry westoids. 1 3 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarticle Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Sadly, Hong Kong couldn't do the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needs Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 End the colonization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmittenCake Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 2 hours ago, Miracle Whip said: Taiwan is China and will remain Chinese sorry westoids. Stick to poorly dragging Nicki minaj if this is the type of smooth-brain takes you choose to post Taiwanese people don't want anything to do with the Chinese government. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gottasadae Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Democracy won Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komet Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Good for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropical Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 6 hours ago, Miracle Whip said: Taiwan is China and will remain Chinese sorry westoids. It has literally never been China but okay. 加油台灣! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Communion Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 4 hours ago, SmittenCake said: Stick to poorly dragging Nicki minaj if this is the type of smooth-brain takes you choose to post Taiwanese people don't want anything to do with the Chinese government. Sis, didn't they just re-elect a government whose entire policy is status quo de-facto independence? The irony is that this global focus on Taiwan reiterates how little of Taiwan's future is actually a choice any Taiwanese can make. They exist in the mind of 99% of the world as a proxy war. Yes, China is aggressive and the Taiwanese government should have its autonomy, but it's clear Taiwanese still benefit from Chinese trade and not having China as an aggressive foe (being sanctioned by China's trade partners is more likely than military involvement). And then clearly American trade also benefits Taiwan, yet there's Western forces who want to push separatism to the point of harming the Taiwanese economy for the sake of also harming China's. There's a reason why the reception by Taiwanese leaders was apprehension when seeing just how fairweather and unorganized America's support for Ukraine actually is. There's no NATO in Asia like there is Europe. Neolibs have discovered campist as their new favorite term, and it's clear some reactionaries DO want China to foolishly preemptively strike Taiwan despite that it would serve no one, but no other issue is quite as blatant with how nearly both sides are driven by some ulterior motive with how Westerners sees Taiwan not as an entity but a means to harming China. Most ATRL threads even show interest in Taiwan as being rooted in, before anything else, an anti-China sentiment (the awkward reality of most Taiwanese being ethnically Han and literally part of the non-indigenous population who did things like cheat and steal the remaining 5% native population out of their land ). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethereal Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 8 hours ago, Miracle Whip said: Taiwan is China and will remain Chinese sorry westoids. Girl get your ass back to stanning Mariah and put her back in your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthteller Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 18 hours ago, Miracle Whip said: Taiwan is China and will remain Chinese sorry westoids. the least voted candidate still got 1250x more votes than Xinnie the Poo. sit the f*** down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvadaKedavra Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 So happy for Taiwan. I had an ATRL friend from there and he deserves his freedom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakeyourbombom Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 On 1/16/2024 at 12:15 AM, Smarticle said: Sadly, Hong Kong couldn't do the same When will this tragedy end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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