China doesn’t want to destroy Taiwan , it wants to reunite with it like it did with other territories that had been taken by foreign powers, like happened to Hong Kong and Macau. Taiwan was occupied by Japan and then never went back to being China after the Japanese were defeated because the Chinese Party that was defeated in the Revolution fled to the Island and never accepted the PRC as legit government in China. Some of the more nationalist Taiwanese even consider themselves to be the legit government in exile of all China. You seem to not understand any of that when you compare China with Nazi Germany, really embarrassing.

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phantasmish 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There’s definitely something embarrassing going on, and it starts but does not end with confusing destruction of a state with destruction of… I’m not even sure what you had in mind. The land? The infrastructure?

Taiwan’s democracy is absolutely threatened with destruction by a totalitarian superpower, that wasn’t in any way incorrect or misleading, and that’s how the GP post phrased it. Its state is threatened with destruction. That’s entirely accurate.

	▲	brabel an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Where are you from? Did you know Taiwan is not recognized as a state independent of China by Europe, the USA, Japan and nearly every other country with the exception of 12 small countries? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries... You want it to be a state but your own country says it’s not one most likely. Stop embarrassing yourself.

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oblio 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What happens is Taiwan opposes the union? You know, through a democratic vote?

The standard authoritarian playbook would require moving to step two, which we saw in action a few years ago on the other side of Eurasia:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/18/stark-b...