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"Japan has never given up trying to colonize Taiwan again, the US has not given up exploiting Taiwan... China's powerful military is there to protect Taiwan." This shocking claim comes straight from Chou Hsi-wei, a senior Kuomintang (KMT) politician and former Taipei County Commissioner. In a recent viral video...

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Hello, I’m Dr.Shih, Shu Hua. I am a dentist, a full mouth reconstruction specialist, and a social activist in Taiwan. I participated in both social movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong, which are the "Sunflower Movement" and "Umbrella Movement" respectively. As a result, I was blacklisted by the CCP. During the time of the Sunflower Movement, we had a very pro-China president, Ma (2008-2016). Despite all the peaceful protests in the Congress, the Ma Government ignored the voices of the people and tried to suppress them. That was why many students had to stand out more aggressively for 24 days, which eventually stopped Ma from signing the "Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement." To put it differently, the students were saving our own country. After that, more and more people became aware of the threats from China. After the ruling party of Taiwan changed, people from Taiwan are forbidden to enter the United Nations buildings and the World Health Assembly, like we are not part of this world. This is all because these organizations accepted the view from China, considering Taiwan a renegade province. NO. The truth is: We are Taiwan, we are Taiwanese, and this is an independent country. We have our own passport, our own currency, and our own story to tell. Please don’t believe a bullying country's propaganda; they are pointing missiles at Taiwan, threatening to invade us, and blocking us in all international organizations, just like what Russia did to Ukraine. Don't leave us fighting alone. Please support us, and let Taiwan be a part of the World Health Organizations, be a part of the United Nations, and be a part of the world. Let us help the world, because Taiwan can help. Stand with Taiwan, stand for justice. Thank you. — 先還三天病人債再去日內瓦替台灣發聲

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Great explanation of the China-Japan altercation by Chas Freeman, imho the wisest diplomat ever produced by the US (he's had many roles, including Asst. Secretary of Defense and famously the main interpreter for Nixon during his epochal 1972 China visit) He first describes in his speech the origin of the altercation as being "Japan's threat to extend its defense perimeter to include Taiwan." Afterwards he goes into a longer explanation in the Q&A in which he said: "Prime Minister Takaichi... answer[ed] a hypothetical question in the Diet by suggesting that Taiwan was now once again part of Japan for defense purposes. And this of course would embolden people in Taiwan to continue to pursue independence rather than reassociation with the rest of China, and therefore it is a strategic change of some significance." In effect, as he explains, it's unacceptable to China in several ways: 1) With regards to Japan's colonial history vis a vis Taiwan, it's especially provocative to now once more make Taiwan part of Japan's territory for defense purposes. 2) Because it emboldens independentist forces in Taiwan and therefore makes war MORE likely. This is Japan basically telling independentists: you can go ahead and declare independence, if war breaks out as a result we have your back. If you want an analogy, it's as if Macron announced officially that the French army would militarily defend Catalonia from Spain if it's seceded. 3) Last but not least, it fundamentally challenges the post-WWII settlement, on which the world order is based. As Freeman explains, Taiwan was recovered from Japan under the Cairo and Potsdam declarations - Allied war aims that the U.S. and China fought and bled for together. By re-extending its defense perimeter to Taiwan, Japan is effectively seeking to reverse the outcome of WWII.
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Great explanation of the China-Japan altercation by Chas Freeman, imho the wisest diplomat ever produced by the US (he's had many roles, including Asst. Secretary of Defense and famously the main interpreter for Nixon during his epochal 1972 China visit) He first describes in his speech the origin of the altercation as being "Japan's threat to extend its defense perimeter to include Taiwan." Afterwards he goes into a longer explanation in the Q&A in which he said: "Prime Minister Takaichi... answer[ed] a hypothetical question in the Diet by suggesting that Taiwan was now once again part of Japan for defense purposes. And this of course would embolden people in Taiwan to continue to pursue independence rather than reassociation with the rest of China, and therefore it is a strategic change of some significance." In effect, as he explains, it's unacceptable to China in several ways: 1) With regards to Japan's colonial history vis a vis Taiwan, it's especially provocative to now once more make Taiwan part of Japan's territory for defense purposes. 2) Because it emboldens independentist forces in Taiwan and therefore makes war MORE likely. This is Japan basically telling independentists: you can go ahead and declare independence, if war breaks out as a result we have your back. If you want an analogy, it's as if Macron announced officially that the French army would militarily defend Catalonia from Spain if it's seceded. 3) Last but not least, it fundamentally challenges the post-WWII settlement, on which the world order is based. As Freeman explains, Taiwan was recovered from Japan under the Cairo and Potsdam declarations - Allied war aims that the U.S. and China fought and bled for together. By re-extending its defense perimeter to Taiwan, Japan is effectively seeking to reverse the outcome of WWII.

Arnaud Bertrand

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I remain absolutely flabbergasted at the level of propaganda on China in France, even on state television. This is a show called CCeSoir on France tv, and the guy speaking is Romain Graziani, supposedly one of France's leading "experts" on China, a Professor of Chinese studies at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon. The way he narrates the history of Taiwan and why it matters to China is, put politely, a complete fabrication. Listening to him, "Taiwan was only really part of the Chinese nation for only 10 years" (and saying otherwise is "pure revisionism") and it's "only in the 1990s" that China's "obsession" with reuniting Taiwan first arose. He further asserts that it's only nowadays with Xi Jinping that "the predatory voracity of China leads to rewriting all of history as if it had been a lost province in the style of Ukraine with Russia." This is so outrageously wrong that I'm not even sure where to start. For one, as a Frenchman, maybe he should read the book "Quand la Chine s'éveillera" ("When China awakens") by Alain Peyrefitte, a former senior French politician and De Gaulle's confidant. In this book written in 1972 (so long before the 1990s), Peyrefitte - drawing from his extensive discussions with Zhou Enlai in China - describes Taiwan as "China's Alsace–Lorraine", drawing the comparison with France's own historical trauma of losing these provinces to Germany in 1871, showing that China's desire for reunification with Taiwan was already a central national priority decades before the 1990s, not a recent invention as Graziani falsely claims. In the book Peyrefitte also relates how he saw in China so many "Let's free Taiwan" slogans alongside others such as "Let's crush imperialism", demonstrating again how central it was to China back then already. The truth is that China's view of Taiwan as an inseparable part of its territory that needs to be reunited has been a persistent diplomatic stance ever since the creation of the PRC (and even before when it was colonized by Japan), making Graziani's timeline not just revisionism but an outright historical fabrication. Also, in his ridiculously wrong retelling of history, Graziani conveniently omits the central fact of Taiwan's recent history: that it indeed represents an "Alsace-Lorraine" for China in the sense that it is a painful territorial wound inflicted during a period of national weakness. Just as France never accepted the legitimacy of German control over Alsace-Lorraine and spent decades determined to recover it, China has consistently viewed Taiwan as a province temporarily separated by an unfinished civil war and foreign meddling, not as a '10-year' historical footnote as Graziani absurdly suggests. And, at the risk of being a "revisionist" in Graziani's eyes, it's also laughably wrong to suggest that Taiwan was only part of China for 10 years between 1885 and 1895. This deliberately obscures how in 1683, after defeating the forces of Ming loyalist Koxinga (who himself had expelled the Dutch colonizers), the Qing dynasty incorporated Taiwan into its empire. It's at this stage that Taiwan was formally incorporated into the empire and administered as part of Fujian province for over two centuries - not 10 years - before becoming its own province in 1885. The 1885 provincial reorganization that Graziani misrepresents as Taiwan's 'integration' was merely an administrative adjustment within already-established Chinese territory. Lastly, I get how comparing the issue of Taiwan with Ukraine is a convenient rhetorical device for Western commentators seeking to delegitimize China's sovereignty claims, but it's an outrageously dishonest parallel. For one, there is not a single country on earth, not one, that recognizes Taiwan as an independent sovereign country, unlike Ukraine. And, as a Frenchman, Graziani should know that France doesn't either. According to international law, Taiwan is part of China. Heck, Taiwan themselves, in their constitution (a reminder that the country is officially called "The Republic of China") do say that they're part of China, and they haven't declared independence. Granted, the "China" that the "Republic of China" say they're part of is a slightly different "China" than that of the PRC in that both entities claim to be the rightful government of the same Chinese territory—making the fundamental conflict a question of which government legitimately rules China, not whether Taiwan is part of China as Graziani disingenuously frames it. All this makes the Taiwan issue actually the opposite of Ukraine. Whereas Ukraine is a sovereign nation facing external aggression that violates its territorial integrity, Taiwan represents a separatist challenge to China's internationally recognized sovereignty. Supporting Taiwan independence therefore means endorsing the very violation of territorial integrity that is condemned in Ukraine's case, an irreconcilable contradiction. All in all, France allowing such egregious revisionism on state television is exceedingly dangerous. The irony is that this is France doing exactly what Graziani accuses China of: engaging in 'predatory' historical revisionism, with state television platforming blatant propaganda as expert academic analysis, propagating falsehoods that contradict international law and manufacture consent for confrontation.
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I remain absolutely flabbergasted at the level of propaganda on China in France, even on state television. This is a show called CCeSoir on France tv, and the guy speaking is Romain Graziani, supposedly one of France's leading "experts" on China, a Professor of Chinese studies at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon. The way he narrates the history of Taiwan and why it matters to China is, put politely, a complete fabrication. Listening to him, "Taiwan was only really part of the Chinese nation for only 10 years" (and saying otherwise is "pure revisionism") and it's "only in the 1990s" that China's "obsession" with reuniting Taiwan first arose. He further asserts that it's only nowadays with Xi Jinping that "the predatory voracity of China leads to rewriting all of history as if it had been a lost province in the style of Ukraine with Russia." This is so outrageously wrong that I'm not even sure where to start. For one, as a Frenchman, maybe he should read the book "Quand la Chine s'éveillera" ("When China awakens") by Alain Peyrefitte, a former senior French politician and De Gaulle's confidant. In this book written in 1972 (so long before the 1990s), Peyrefitte - drawing from his extensive discussions with Zhou Enlai in China - describes Taiwan as "China's Alsace–Lorraine", drawing the comparison with France's own historical trauma of losing these provinces to Germany in 1871, showing that China's desire for reunification with Taiwan was already a central national priority decades before the 1990s, not a recent invention as Graziani falsely claims. In the book Peyrefitte also relates how he saw in China so many "Let's free Taiwan" slogans alongside others such as "Let's crush imperialism", demonstrating again how central it was to China back then already. The truth is that China's view of Taiwan as an inseparable part of its territory that needs to be reunited has been a persistent diplomatic stance ever since the creation of the PRC (and even before when it was colonized by Japan), making Graziani's timeline not just revisionism but an outright historical fabrication. Also, in his ridiculously wrong retelling of history, Graziani conveniently omits the central fact of Taiwan's recent history: that it indeed represents an "Alsace-Lorraine" for China in the sense that it is a painful territorial wound inflicted during a period of national weakness. Just as France never accepted the legitimacy of German control over Alsace-Lorraine and spent decades determined to recover it, China has consistently viewed Taiwan as a province temporarily separated by an unfinished civil war and foreign meddling, not as a '10-year' historical footnote as Graziani absurdly suggests. And, at the risk of being a "revisionist" in Graziani's eyes, it's also laughably wrong to suggest that Taiwan was only part of China for 10 years between 1885 and 1895. This deliberately obscures how in 1683, after defeating the forces of Ming loyalist Koxinga (who himself had expelled the Dutch colonizers), the Qing dynasty incorporated Taiwan into its empire. It's at this stage that Taiwan was formally incorporated into the empire and administered as part of Fujian province for over two centuries - not 10 years - before becoming its own province in 1885. The 1885 provincial reorganization that Graziani misrepresents as Taiwan's 'integration' was merely an administrative adjustment within already-established Chinese territory. Lastly, I get how comparing the issue of Taiwan with Ukraine is a convenient rhetorical device for Western commentators seeking to delegitimize China's sovereignty claims, but it's an outrageously dishonest parallel. For one, there is not a single country on earth, not one, that recognizes Taiwan as an independent sovereign country, unlike Ukraine. And, as a Frenchman, Graziani should know that France doesn't either. According to international law, Taiwan is part of China. Heck, Taiwan themselves, in their constitution (a reminder that the country is officially called "The Republic of China") do say that they're part of China, and they haven't declared independence. Granted, the "China" that the "Republic of China" say they're part of is a slightly different "China" than that of the PRC in that both entities claim to be the rightful government of the same Chinese territory—making the fundamental conflict a question of which government legitimately rules China, not whether Taiwan is part of China as Graziani disingenuously frames it. All this makes the Taiwan issue actually the opposite of Ukraine. Whereas Ukraine is a sovereign nation facing external aggression that violates its territorial integrity, Taiwan represents a separatist challenge to China's internationally recognized sovereignty. Supporting Taiwan independence therefore means endorsing the very violation of territorial integrity that is condemned in Ukraine's case, an irreconcilable contradiction. All in all, France allowing such egregious revisionism on state television is exceedingly dangerous. The irony is that this is France doing exactly what Graziani accuses China of: engaging in 'predatory' historical revisionism, with state television platforming blatant propaganda as expert academic analysis, propagating falsehoods that contradict international law and manufacture consent for confrontation.

Arnaud Bertrand

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Why China’s Military Is a Paper Dragon — and Why It’ll Collapse If It Invades Taiwan. China’s Top Generals Are Falling One by One. Xi Is Repeating Stalin’s Worst Military Mistake. China’s military might look powerful on TV — but behind the parades and propaganda, it’s falling apart. In this episode, I expose why Xi Jinping’s so-called “war machine” is rotting from within. From purged generals like Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli to a culture of corruption and fake loyalty, the PLA has become a paper dragon — loud, shiny, and hollow. If Beijing ever invades Taiwan, it won’t be a battle… it’ll be a breakdown.
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Why China’s Military Is a Paper Dragon — and Why It’ll Collapse If It Invades Taiwan. China’s Top Generals Are Falling One by One. Xi Is Repeating Stalin’s Worst Military Mistake. China’s military might look powerful on TV — but behind the parades and propaganda, it’s falling apart. In this episode, I expose why Xi Jinping’s so-called “war machine” is rotting from within. From purged generals like Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli to a culture of corruption and fake loyalty, the PLA has become a paper dragon — loud, shiny, and hollow. If Beijing ever invades Taiwan, it won’t be a battle… it’ll be a breakdown.

Ken Cao-The China Crash Chronicle

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