Will these old bros ever reunite?
Will these old bros ever reunite?
Xavier Brooks
Bentley Gray
Should they?
Tyler Peterson
I would guess by 2035 they will be united
Sebastian Parker
this makes me cry
Nathaniel White
Post the one about France
Kayden Brown
If we observe history of China and how many times different Chinas reunited, I don't see why people doubt this will happen.
Eli Garcia
I don't think so.
>Taiwan bans eating dog and cat meat
edition.cnn.com
Robert Peterson
It could be easier than expected. China's political system allows for diversity in governance (Cfr. Hong Kong, Macau, etc)
Jayden Bell
Maybe when China becomes ridiculously powerful while Taiwan remains static
Carter Perry
If you ever want to trigger someone from Taiwan, tell them that they already are reunited.
Some Chinese students I have met here on exchange unironically think China and Taiwan are part of one another.
If you want to trigger the Chinese, tell them about the Vatican's diplomatic relations with the PRC in Taiwan.
Josiah Perez
I hope it would happen. If Germany reunited why can't Taiwan but I will admit it is becoming increasingly difficult.
A lot of Taiwanese do not identify with China but with their island. The 'diversity of governance' has been increasingly proven to be a farce in recent years. In fact, maybe it was a farce from the beginning considering the first HK CE reversed the late-British reforms and made LegCo less representative. Which isn't to say Brits were all good. They came up with the idea of functional constituencies, political seats given to industrialists and corporations and we all know how this can go very wrong. In recent years, we've had HK politicians asking China for a legup in elections, people getting kidnapped off the streets and bundled to China and threats against the media and activists all culminating in new legal powers which effectively allow the government to disqualify any lawmaker they don't like.
Taiwan is looking very closely at Hong Kong and China's promises of autonomy and based on what they see they are going to say 'No thanks' to an offer of One Country, Two Systems.
As an aside, OCTS has been proposed by other countries divided by Cold War politics. The East Germans proposed unifying Germany while it kept it's Communist system. Norks once suggested a Korean Confederation where it kept it's party state. You could say that in China we are seeing how these proposals could have worked out and based on how it's been working out (increasing calls for independence, frustration and anger) it can be compared to a struggling marriage. It's probably even worse in this case as at least South Korea and West Germany had some political cards to play with as they grew more powerful economically.
In China the situation is reversed. Sure HK is a major economic center but China is a growing economic, political and military power.
Nathan Hernandez
give em 100 years or so to figure out this whole "technology and industry" thing, like the UK did
Connor Fisher
But they both have technology and industry...?
Charles Jones
I have also heard this. Usually expressed as 'Taiwan Provence' by young mainland people. Pretty lel.
Hopefully integration doesn't happen, because Taiwan is dope. But realistically, I give it 50years. Personally I think if push came to shove, Taiwan would be wise to plee for Japanese vassalige, that would be the best way to ensure independence from china....even if it could potentially spark a major conflict in the region.
Gabriel Thompson
Why would Taiwan ever want to give up their freedumbs.
Eli Lee
anti-capitalist shitbags LEAVE
Aiden Myers
why do they need 100 years when they have the UK as an example of how not to do things?
Sebastian Stewart
>you need to be anti-capitalistic to care about the earth
ur dumb my d*de
Justin Bennett
When one of the "bros" holds hundreds of guns at his other "bros"'s head, this seems unlikely.
Ethan Thompson
Your pic is fucking nightmarish but Chaohu lake and the copper mine have a certain aesthetic to them.
Joshua Hughes
they really fucked any chance of Taiwan coming in under a one country two systems model when Beijing acted in violation of that towards HK
Camden Brown
Maybe in 50 years lel.
Also probably more likely by force than by diplomacy.
Also Taiwan and China aren't that different from each other. Chinks are still Chinks
en.wikipedia.org
Chinas just seems worse because it's on a much larger scale
Ryder Perez
every taiwanese already knows beijing fucked over hong kong
Charles Baker
Hong Kong's government got castrated. Fuck the PRC and fuck you you fucking gommie shill.
Carter Rodriguez
>100 years
hmm
Colton Garcia
Our environment will most likely be colossally fucked within 100 years. Human loving conditions in earth have about 60-70 years left before shit starts getting real bad.
Andrew Sullivan
why is he so smug?
Angel Baker
He's the president of China when America is going through their Suez crisis
Tyler Murphy
>Hong Kong's government got castrated
As a fucking colony, it always WAS a castrated government.
Matthew Long
It's almost certain we'll be annexed by PRC in future judging by the degeneration and declination of my little island, thanks to DPP and anti-Chinese separatism.
Most of all, I also unironically hops CCP can speed up the process and stop faggot marriage because I really cannot stand the rampant degeneracy infesting here anymore.
t. Taiwan Chinese
Cameron Thompson
*hope