So… If this were true, would the RoC give up all its claims on the continent?
To become an unsinkable American aircraft carrier and humiliate China? Absolutely. The old KMT is no more. They’re lap-dogs 100%.
In the medium-term the US strategy of propaganda is working. No reason why the residents there aren’t becoming more westernized, more anti-sino/Chinese, more anti-communist, more rabidly, ignorantly pro-white-western-order. What I mean is pulling the trigger next month on forceful reunification for China would be easier in the sense of pacification and reintegration of Taiwan than pulling the trigger on forceful reunification in 5 years, 10 years. Of course this is a trap. The US benefits from and wants to goad China into doing that to better attack and isolate them, to justify forcing decoupling on some greater, grander scale. But it’s a tricky trap because even if China doesn’t fall into it (they haven’t so far) it has a fall-back which is that the road to actual re-integration becomes harder the longer they wait. On a global geo-political level and for the grander strategy waiting at least a few years is wiser than acting now for China but it comes at a cost.
This is worded suspiciously like the overwhelming majority of people there still call themselves “Chinese”…
KMT:
The KMT is pro reunification tho. The DPP is the batshit one financed by Washington and in power.
The KMT is pro reunification tho
Maybe now. Not so much until they lost the power as evidenced by no reunification in the decades before.
We have a saying in the PRC regarding the two, the DPP are overtly pushing independence while the KMT are doing it covertly.
Though to be somewhat fair, there were proposals put forth in the past (even if unrealistic) by the KMT such as forming a federation (which was rejected by the mainland in 2001).
