I just looked into the history of Taiwan and China and it looks to me like the previous government of China lost a civil war and then retreated to Taiwan.
Really puts into perspective all the useful idiots saying "Taiwan is China." They're literally following the same logic as "the South will rise again."
Propaganda is real. Indoctrination is real. Tribalism is real. If you feel you're immune to them, then you're probably the most susceptible.
You just totally get how to engage with other people don't you... insult their intelligence, and surely they'll come around to your viewpoint. Works everytime.
It reeks of "I never knew a thing about this until recently and now I have been reading tons of opinion forums and blog posts about it so I'm basically an expert now. Also I have a few new words in my vocabulary I need to whip out to show how smart I am."
So do Israel Palestine, or Azerbaijan and Armenia, Guyana and Venezuela, India and Pakistan.
Come on man, these are all subjects you can “look into” and then pretend you understand them while lording it over people and telling them that they should brush up on their reading comprehension.
The Republic of China retreated to Taiwan in the Chinese civil war when the communist party took control, yes. No, nobody expects the CCP to fall and the ROC and Kuomintang to return to the mainland.
Also the KMT aren't really good guys anyway, they're a pretty nationalist right-wing party.
But I don't really see what that has to do with this story.
