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  • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
    520·
    2 days ago

    Why would China need to invade Taiwan? They assert that Taiwan is already a part of China. That would be like the US invading Kentucky. Right? Or is Taiwan a different country from China?

    • Burninator05@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      2 days ago

      Two differences in your analogy.

      1. Kentucky agrees that it is part of the US. Taiwan does not believe they are part of China.

      2. The rest of the world agrees with the US that Kentucky is part of the US. The rest of the world does not agree that Taiwan is part of China.

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          That’s exactly why he is invading Venezuela.

          The courts have been holding him back from deploying national guard - let alone active-duty troops - domestically. He’s got ICE, but he wants more. He wants to declare martial law. He wants troops in the cities. Active-duty, Federal troops, not weekend warriors. The courts say he can’t do that without the Alien Enemies act, and they say he can’t invoke that act without a war.

          So we have a war.

      • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        2 days ago
        1. Taiwan’s constition states that they are a part of mainland China. Their position is that the ROC and not the PRC are the rightful government.
        2. 142 or so countries agree that the PRC is the rightful government of Taiwan. 12 recognize the ROC. And, importantly, 50 or so, including the US, acknowledges the claim that the PRC is making without agreeing or disagreeing with it.
      • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Taiwan does consider itself China. In fact, declaring they’re not might verywellbe the trigger for the invasion. I get that they’re de facto two separate countries, but de jure, PRC and ROC are two sides of the world’s longest and coldest civil war.

    • zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I guess they would just kidnap, I mean “capture”, the president of Taiwan to be charged in their courts. No need to invade, it’s just “law enforcement” without a warrant like what Trump is doing now.

    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Yes, the PRC claims that there is one country and Taiwan is a part of it. They also know that a seperatist group maintains control of Taiwan. If the confederacy lost all but Kentucky in the civil war, the US would still need to regsin control by military means. I’m not sure it would be called an invasion though.

      • bitcrafter@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        You have got it backwards. The correct analogy would be if the Confederacy won the Civil War by conquering all of the states in the Union except for Rhode Island, but then later claimed that it was actually Rhode Island that was the separatist group and demanded that everyone in the world agree with this.