24/09/2022
What is the One China Policy, and why does 🇨🇳 always like to bring it up?
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You know how when someone feels really insecure about something, so they keep talking about it, repeating it, trying to reinforce it into people's minds so they feel more secure about it? That's what that is.
How do we know it's like that?
Have you ever heard of a One USA policy? Or a One Canada policy? No, because nobody needs to be told that there is only One USA, and One Canada.
It'd be like if I was insecure about the size of my yellow p***s.
But I was that annoying, rude, disrespectful, and juvenile rich kid we all knew in class that everyone wanted to be "friends" with simply to enjoy and benefit from their riches.
But again, I was insecure about the size of my yellow p***s. So what do I do?
I say, "If you want to be friends (aka have official diplomatic relations) with me, you have to sign on the dotted line that I have the biggest p***s on Earth, (that our China, the PRC, 🇨🇳, is the "One" and only China on Earth.)
But if I did in fact have the biggest p***s on Earth, would I need to do that in the first place?
No.
People would just know.
It's why the USA doesn't feel the need to enforce a One USA policy, because everybody knows there's actually only one USA.
It's *precisely because* there are in fact Two Chinas, the ROC 🇹🇼, and the PRC 🇨🇳, that they feel compelled to try to use all the leverage they have to create a piece of fiction that they can manipulate and enforce into a "reality" that they enjoy.
The solution?
The truth is, there could be a peace treaty TODAY.
The problem is, ONLY ONE SIDE, one of the "Chinas" isn't interested in peace, and what's worse, ONLY ONE SIDE is threatening the other, and wants to annex the other, either through violence, or coercion.
It's not a mystery why the Taiwanese don't want to be invaded and/or annexed by the PRC 🇨🇳 .
The Peace Treaty could essentially say, the PRC 🇨🇳 gets the land that they got from the civil war and currently govern, and the ROC 🇹🇼 gets the land that they got and currently govern. Cease-fire. No more "Chinese people killing other Chinese people."
Peaceful coexistence. No invasion from either side (even though ONLY ONE SIDE is doing that today.) There are 2 Koreas, 2 Congos, 2 Sudans, and hell, 4 Guineas. There's no reason why there can't be two Chinas, unless somebody wants to suggest we're an inferior people that can't?
You'd think that 🇨🇳 would be happy that they got the overwhelming majority of the land, but no, being their usually greedy selves they want as much as they can get away with.
And they get away with plenty, having gotten away with all their intimidation, coercion, blackmail, and escalation without facing any consequences, as usual. Due to being afraid of facing any kind of backlash from 🇨🇳 the international community always turns a blind eye for them.
The other solution comes from the grassroots "independence" movement. I put independence in " "s because Taiwan/ROC🇹🇼 is *already* independent.
Independence in this case would mean separating Taiwan from any idea of *any* China, whether it's the PRC 🇨🇳 or the ROC 🇹🇼 .
This may or may not be harder or take more time and steps, given that the people may want to come up with a new flag, new constitution, perhaps a new anthem, all of which the 24 million people would have to agree on and pass through the legislature, but it's not impossible.
Essentially it's saying, "Fine, PRC 🇨🇳, you want to be the one and only China? Fine, we don't care to fight you to be the only China, you go ahead, we'll just be Taiwan."
You'd think that they'd go for this concession, but you'd be giving them too much benefit of the doubt.
Like I said, being their usually greedy selves, they want as much as they can get away with. They want it all, despite not having the consent of the people living in Taiwan. Their male dominated single party dictatorship has no respect for "consent".
To those who say who governs Taiwan is a matter of an unfinished civil war, and therefore the PRC and ROC should just duke it out without anyone else involved...if you want to think and conduct yourself like an unevolved, underdeveloped, uncivilized, barbaric animal, go ahead.
What I and many others would suggest is to resolve issues as evolved, developed, civilized homo sapiens of the 21st century, with the pen rather than the sword.
To wrap up, again, we could have a Peace Treaty TODAY. BEFORE, an invasion even breaks out.
All we have to do, is get the PRC 🇨🇳 to agree not to start, instigate, and launch an invasion. To convince them that peace, is better than war. There IS NO justification.
The ROC/Taiwan 🇹🇼 and PRC 🇨🇳 *can* peacefully coexist. All we have to do is convince the PRC 🇨🇳 to stop being the bully and respect our boundaries. As I'm sure we've all heard ad nauseum from contemporary relationship advice, healthy relationships have healthy boundaries.
One side chooses to threaten the other. One side can stop it.
Because if 🇨🇳 stops bullying, the conflict ends. If ROC/Taiwan🇹🇼 stops fighting, 🇹🇼 ends.