Re: China
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:40 am
Also keep in mind that the PRC does not only import a huge amount of their food but also needs to import a huge amount of the fertilizers they need to produce their own food. If the PRC was subjected to the same sanctions as the Russian Federation, they would have a brutal famine with ridiculous amounts of people starving to death within a few months. But then again maybe the CCP sees such a crisis as an opportunity to purge the country of old people to be cannibalized.
Regarding the Kuomintang issue (and pan blue coalition in general) it should be mentioned that the KMT didn't just start aligning with the CCP randomly but was actually subverted over an extended period of time, in part through relations with the the CCP approved mainland KMT wing.
Judging from the blues i talked to, their opinion is less that the PRC isn't really communist anymore (on the contrary, they very much consider the CCP, even under Deng, Jiang, Hu and Xi, hardcore commie bastards) but more that in line with their 2 core beliefs (anti-communism and nationalism), the country should re-unify first (because that is agreed upon by the blues and reds and therefore easy to accomplish) so they can be anti-CCP later. The technical proposition of "one country two systems" isn't even meant in the same way as with HK but in a way where Taiwan literally still have their independent military and independent political system but are internationally represented together with the mainland as one country. Naturally, this is a retarded idea because the CCP would have a disproportionate amount of representation on every single issue and an invasion by the PLA would have to be considered as an internal crackdown rather than a war of aggression internationally then.
What really makes me cringe was when the KMT supported the crackdown on Hong Kong because the Hong Kongers were "yelling anti China slogans" and "attacking the police", with some even daring to wave british Hong Kong flags. This pretty much shows the inconsistency in the KMTs own logic. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the PRC. The KMT does not even officially recognize the PRC as a sovereign country, which means they should technically consider any executive organ including the police of the PRC as warlords, gangs or terrorists with no formal legitimacy, which would make attacking them okay. But in reality the KMT just pay anti-communism lipservice while being closet tankies. The only thing that kinda changed over the years is that the CCP turned away from the whole comintern philosophy and started aligning more with the KMTs thinly veiled han-supremacist views.
Regarding the Kuomintang issue (and pan blue coalition in general) it should be mentioned that the KMT didn't just start aligning with the CCP randomly but was actually subverted over an extended period of time, in part through relations with the the CCP approved mainland KMT wing.
Judging from the blues i talked to, their opinion is less that the PRC isn't really communist anymore (on the contrary, they very much consider the CCP, even under Deng, Jiang, Hu and Xi, hardcore commie bastards) but more that in line with their 2 core beliefs (anti-communism and nationalism), the country should re-unify first (because that is agreed upon by the blues and reds and therefore easy to accomplish) so they can be anti-CCP later. The technical proposition of "one country two systems" isn't even meant in the same way as with HK but in a way where Taiwan literally still have their independent military and independent political system but are internationally represented together with the mainland as one country. Naturally, this is a retarded idea because the CCP would have a disproportionate amount of representation on every single issue and an invasion by the PLA would have to be considered as an internal crackdown rather than a war of aggression internationally then.
What really makes me cringe was when the KMT supported the crackdown on Hong Kong because the Hong Kongers were "yelling anti China slogans" and "attacking the police", with some even daring to wave british Hong Kong flags. This pretty much shows the inconsistency in the KMTs own logic. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the PRC. The KMT does not even officially recognize the PRC as a sovereign country, which means they should technically consider any executive organ including the police of the PRC as warlords, gangs or terrorists with no formal legitimacy, which would make attacking them okay. But in reality the KMT just pay anti-communism lipservice while being closet tankies. The only thing that kinda changed over the years is that the CCP turned away from the whole comintern philosophy and started aligning more with the KMTs thinly veiled han-supremacist views.
