China doesn't even care about Taiwan anymore, their saber-rattling about it is a convenient distraction while they quietly make it completely irrelevant in the next few years.

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iso1631 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It does seem the idea is to get the Taiwanese people to want to choose to rejoin China by making China far better for people to live than Taiwan. Maybe that will be via democracy (i.e. China manipulates the people of Taiwan), or perhaps it will be genuine (i.e. China provides a far better lifestyle for the average person than Taiwan)

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nipponese 2 days ago | parent [-]

I have seen first hand how Chinese nationals behave when visiting Taiwan - it’s not pretty.

Shared language and history aside, these two cultures are not in the same solar system when it comes to social norms and curtesies.

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		More so than say Afghanistan and Sweden?

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8note 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

china is gonna care about taiwan as a means of ocean access til the end of time, or til the tectonic plates move to make different opportunities.

the people and industry arent what matter there