US approves potential $500m sale of military equipment to Taiwan

Taiwan only exists because it served, and continues to serve, US interests as a staging point for military operations against China. A war over Taiwan would absolutely see the US using Taiwan as a proxy, much as they are currently using Ukraine against Russia.

I mean, China can just mind their own business, leave them alone, and then there doesn't have to be a war. How nice that would be.

Well even though I do not ever want to see war between Taiwan and China, I believe that if there ever were one, the war would not be a proxy war but a war where Taiwanese are fighting for their own.

To say nothing of the 40 years White Terror

It's constitution has not even been amended to not include Mongolia, let alone mainland China.

And the KMT did do a number on the indigenous Formosan population.

This is not like that. The ROC government did not "massacre everyone there." It did call itself the rightful government of the entire China for several decades, but it has since then moved on.

Life expectancy— how the US government treats its people

What is that plot about?


far from perfect can still be good.

They didn't say they were wrong

They just said they were far off the mark

That means their understanding is far from perfect

They absolutely do know their shit

They did not say that they don't know shit about the topic, not even close. They simply said *their characterization is far off the marks*. That means that their understanding of the conflict is far from perfect, but they absolutely do know shit about it.

So you acknowledge the fact that you don't know shit about the topic you're spouting off on but you still just assume you know better??

Do they make redditors in a factory or something

I agree my characterisation is far off the mark. But the poster I responded to wasn’t even in the same galaxy, so I still considered it an improvement.

Also, I’m not Jesus Christ 🤪


jesus christ read at least one book about the history of the conflict you're describing before you confidently spout nonsense.

I agree. People should take how the Chinese government and the US government treat their people into consideration.

This is like if the Confederacy retreated to Catalina Island, massacred everyone there, and continued calling itself the rightful government of the entire continent afterward.

Man, these days you know a hexbear without even looking at the user.

I mean this is complete baloney! You are also using the comparison to establish some kind of “evil slavers vs democracy” narrative that wasn’t in place at all in China during the warlord era. They were all equally horrid.

This is, at best, akin to a war between all states in the US after the Boston Tea Party and a communist state, let’s just pick Arizona, slowly winning the wars and forcing the remaining faction onto Hawaii. Then the socialist party forced anyone who could read, more or less, to work themselves to death in a field in the name of communism. Glory to the people!!!

We've had one, yes, but what about second proxy war?

Imagine instead of complete surrender the confederacy retreated and held Texas, and China was selling them advanced weaponry. That’s what this is