• Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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    28 days ago

    If the PRC wanted to it could negotiate a peaceful independence that would remove RoC/Taiwan from US influence and lead to a peaceful reunification, or at least much closer ties and no worry about US meddling over a generation or two.

    But it doesn’t see the point, as as local hegemon/imperial power war is an ace card, and what gains does a commitment to peace bring? (This is the US (including pre-Trump’s) general ideology with other nations too (albeit not White European ones.)