Just have to look at China, you need real name verification to even buy a domain name.

One China, One Taiwan, two countries across the Taiwan Strait

Yeah, it blows my mind Romanian politicians arguing for this when the collective memory of about 300,000 women dying trying to perform unsafe at home abortions is fresh within this generation of people over 40.

Pretty much, this is the same strategy the US employs: destroy sex ed, limit contraception, criminalise abortion. It “worked” for Romania during the communist era, where the fertility rate was almost 4, but it created a huge generation of abandoned and traumatised kids.

In the state’s mind, this was still a net benefit, as even traumatised and abandoned kids eventually have to work and pay taxes

On it’s own, probably not, paired with decreasing access and quality of sex ed, probably quite a lot

Original comment was talking about China attacking Taiwan to suffocate the US from the supply of chips for its military. China can unilaterally choke the US of rare earths without invading Taiwan

This piece of software was exactly what was missing for me after leaving the iOS ecosystem. This is great!

Fair

Micron is a US company, but most R&D is done in Taiwan. As long as the US depends on Taiwan education pipeline and propensity for following SOP to the T for producing chips, the Arizona fabs aren’t a deal-breaker wrt Silicon Shield.

Yayyyy calls for war crimes again /s

Unlike for consumer applications, military systems don’t need cutting edge 2nm processes. Most military systems use 28nm - 90nm processes, which are more reliable, and which the US can comfortably supply domestically.

When did the Chinese Civil War start? When did the Chinese Civil War end (/you believe was frozen)? Between those two points in time, who had sovereignty over Taiwan?

Taiwan wasn’t even part of the civil war you use as the basis of your argument. It wasn’t even part of the ROC until the allies gave it to be under the administration of the ROC, sovereignty to be decided at a later date peacefully, following the UN Charter.

Framing this as a frozen civil war is ridiculous, but it’s the only way the PRC has some claim to Taiwan.

The US’s One China interpretation is that it “acknowledges” China’s position, not passing judgement about that position.

Anyways, One China One Taiwan, two countries across the Strait

Well the PLA has barracks inside HK since the handover from the UK. On the other hand, blockading or invading Taiwan would be the largest amphibious invasion in human history

They are doing impressive projects, not gonna lie, but the whole “class struggle” spiel has been over for some time now

The current status quo framework is based on the civil war claims, even the slightest deviation from this framework is seen as a red line by the PRC, to the degree that Chen Shui-bian was seen as a diehard independence figure for simply using Taiwan instead of ROC in national day addresses.

Looking at practical implications, where Taiwan hopes to maintain a status quo until the PRC’s window of opportunity for annexation fades away, why would Taiwan say “yeah we don’t claim the ROC territory, we claim exactly the territories of today’s PRC”, thereby strengthening the PRCs argument for annexing Taiwan?

What you’re looking for was tried by the progressive administrations following democratisation, but faced opposition in the Legislative Yuan, mainly from the opposition KMT party, including rewording of “paying reparations” to “paying compensations” to the victims

It’s absurd to claim Taiwan today is moulded by the White Terror era, or that the administration or political entities have fascist policies.

Again, if we look at the framework of fascism, the PRC is much closer to a fascist definition than Taiwan

The main argument of the PRC is there is one China, the ROC was the government of that China, the PRC succeeded the ROC as the sole legitimate government of all Chinese territory in 1949. Taiwan was part of the Japanese empire (sovereignty given to Japan by Qing China) for the entirety of the ROC’s lifetime in China, the ROC given administrative rights to Taiwan at the Treaty of San Francisco.

Taiwan giving up those de-jure territorial claims implies Taiwan is a separate entity, the civil war framework dissolves, since there’s no longer a competing government claiming to represent China, just two separate countries, and the succession of states logic breaks.

The moment Taiwan says “we don’t claim the mainland anymore, we just claim Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, …,” it’s a de facto independence declaration.

This is seen by the PRC as sedition and, again, by law, the PRC must intervene militarily to prevent that.

This de-jure claim is based on a constitution written in 1947 by an irredentist fascist that occupied Taiwan and placed it under martial law, against the will of it’s people. As I said in other comments, any attempts made by Taiwan since democratisation to move away from that constitution are seen as seditious, and, by PRC law, must be intervened with militarily.