I can't wait to be powerful enough to demand that celebrities reaffirm to me in stilted Polish that Taiwan is an integral part of Poland, since that argument is about as strong.
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The deference to PRC irredentism would never be tolerated in other contexts. Imagine our WWF stars apologizing in German for implying that Alsace-Lorraine was in any way a part of France. And yet that territory (along with half of Europe) changed hands more recently than Taiwan
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I think the proper course here is to have Taiwan continue de facto independence while trolling the PRC by having them formally apply for American statehood
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This stuff would be silly except that it normalizes the idea that China has a right to attack a peaceful, prosperous, and pluralistic democracy next door at a time of its choosing. We don't tolerate a similar threat in Korea, but China gets a pass
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