The ambiguity there is bad faith. That's my whole point. The plain language recognizes the one china principle, but the US decides it doesn't because we want to maintain our imperial presence in the region.
When was the last time China invaded anyone? The US is the actual warmonger trying to dominate the entire globe & yall are preoccupied with a country you don't know shit about.
Taiwan is part of China. That is the overwhelming view of people in Taiwan.
No, the system has undergone dramatic reform in the past decade & is still a target of reform. You're trying to evaluate the country as a static image in time rather than observe the pattern of movement in the direction of genuine progress.
It's not whataboutism when I'm saying to stop treating China like an exception rather than an instance of the norm that exists around the world
jfc, i do, yall are being annoying sino-phobic pieces of shit
Literally look at how the West has treated Muslims since 9/11. This is unfortunately part of the norm of our world.
Do you really think this makes China unique? Do you realize this country lifted 800 million plus people out of extreme poverty in a handful of decades? Have acheived literacy rates higher than the US? Have affordable housing, food, healthcare, reproducyive care, & public transport?
The "status quo" was brand new. The people of Hong Kong resisted & protested British rule to join the PRC & the Brits left it in a fucking mess. Reunification was always going to be a messy process. Has it been handled perfectly? No. That doesn't invalidate PRC governance or the CPC's whole project.
Familiar enough to expect you're gonna paint a complex political situation in "china bad" broad strokes. You could just try exploring the simple idea that China is a relatively normal country that has been routinely misunderstood & demonized in the West.
China is explicitly non-interventionist. They have no reason to think the US wouldn't be crazy enough to invade Taiwan cuz look who we fucking put in charge. They have done everything in good faith to do reunification peacefully, & the US fears Taiwan coming under more direct control of the PRC.
???? Yes you do. That's a critical component of hard power projection.
The US maintains a fleet in the South China Sea explicitly for containing China & is constantly manufacturing domestic consent (hence, why you care) for war over Taiwan. China is playing catch-up with their miltary build-up.
US invasion or interference in Taiwan to prevent a peaceful reunification with mainland China.
Consider whose more likely to provoke a conflict over Taiwan: the country that hasn't done a military intervention in several decades or the country that is infamous for all of its interventions?
"[Since 1979] the U.S. government has recognized the PRC as 'the sole legal Government of China' and maintained relations with Taiwan on an unofficial basis. This approach forms the core of the U.S. 'one-China' policy and underpins U.S.-PRC relations."
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
The US would do so to prevent Taiwan from reunifying with China & prevent said semiconductor production from coming more directly under the control of a rival power.
The US doesn't dispute that Taiwan is part of China, and US says PRC is sole government of China. All of our relations with Taiwan are handled in an unofficial capacity.
OMG, they have equipment to do amphibious landings? Gee, it's almost like they're worried the US would do a coup or invade Taiwan to prevent a peaceful reunification like China repeatedly states it wants. Yall seriously presume every country is a crazy war hungry as the US.
Put another way, you're treating the bullshit the US pulls to create ambiguity as the de jure meaning of the policy. I'm saying the plain meaning recognizes Taiwan as part of China & we bullshit our way into maintaining our imperial presence in the strait.
We deliberately created ambiguity about that in the Shanghai Communiqué in spite of recognizing the PRC as the sole legal government of China, that there is one China, and that Taiwan is part of China.
You're not understanding that the words you just said is literally what formal recognizition of a state's sovereignty looks like in international law.
Not talking about Putin (who is much closer ideologicalky to Netanyahu than the CPC). China has a very explicitly non-interventionist foreign policy which is backed up by the fact they haven't done military interventions in more than 3 decades.
You mean building up a military? Yes. It's called deterrence. When's the last time you saw China start a war like the US constantly does?
How so? We literally just started a war with Iran to "preempt" them striking Israel, so what makes you believe we wouldn't try to surge into Taiwan to "preempt" an invasion by China?
Okay, think critically here. Between the US & China, which country is the most demonstrably war hungry? Why would China want to invade Taiwan knowing that would trigger a massive military conflict with the US?
Taiwan is part of China, but the US doesn't want Taiwan to reunify. That's the situation.
no one said you had to
No, we have an agreemenr explicitly with the PRC that officially recognizes their sovereign claims, but we leverage hard power the way we have since WW2 to do what we want in spite of international law.
The KMT doesnxt care as much about asserting the ROC as the One China because they are now much friendlier to a PRC One China.
Look up the legal definition of "recognize" because you're confusing it with the collquial meaning.
they would
A state *officially* recognizing another state's claim to their sovereign territory is how sovereign borders are established in international politics.