>Taiwan’s story is the mirror image. Twenty-three million people built a
world-class economy and a resilient democracy by pairing technological
excellence with open debate and free exchange. >Subordinating that success to
the dictates of an authoritarian system holds no appeal, especially after the
unraveling of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” — the very template once
marketed to Taiwan. If Beijing wouldn’t keep that promise for Hong Kong, why
would it honor it for Taiwan? >Taiwan sits at the center of global semiconductor
production. Moving it into Beijing’s orbit would concentrate, not diversify,
risk, placing the world’s most advanced chips and manufacturing know-how under
the political leverage of an authoritarian state.
Hexbear was doing their brigade again, trying to try wedges between people.
Yeah I don’t know what Taiwan has to do with the comm. Random stupid article completely irrelevant to it, then they blame those who don’t agree.
Taiwan’s story is the mirror image. Twenty-three million people built a world-class economy and a resilient democracy by pairing technological excellence with open debate and free exchange.
What happened to all the indigenous Taiwanese, hmm? Where did they go? Did they all just decide to start speaking Cantonese one day as a joke to confuse the mainland?
the cultural genocide of the indigenous peoples didn’t end during the guomindang era but it was probably a lot worse during the late qing era and definitely worse under the japanese colonial era.
most indigenous speak mandarin btw and (especially in the east) also still speak their native languages. never met an indigenous person that could speak cantonese but some of them can speak taiwanese
The blue (mandarin) areas on the east coast are the areas with the highest percentage of indigenous.
I guess the sudden dark blue in the the northwest is some part of Taoyuan where a lot of waishengren (mainlanders arriving during the civil war, mostly former military families) live
it was a military dictatorship until the late 80s lol. there was martial law and curfews. it was a literal one party state. there were no debates or free exchange.
and the world-class economy was all because of the glory of capitalism and free enterprise and was not related to a) pillaged mainland gold reserves and b) investments from the american empire
Yeah I don’t know what Taiwan has to do with the comm. Random stupid article completely irrelevant to it, then they blame those who don’t agree.
Literally a dictatorship not that long ago.
What happened to all the indigenous Taiwanese, hmm? Where did they go? Did they all just decide to start speaking Cantonese one day as a joke to confuse the mainland?
I know you’re joking but almost nobody there speaks Cantonese lol
the cultural genocide of the indigenous peoples didn’t end during the guomindang era but it was probably a lot worse during the late qing era and definitely worse under the japanese colonial era.
most indigenous speak mandarin btw and (especially in the east) also still speak their native languages. never met an indigenous person that could speak cantonese but some of them can speak taiwanese
What language? Hakka? Hokkien? Assuming we’re not talking about Austronesian languages but Sinitic ones.
“Taiwanese” would be Taiwanese Hokkien, however the lingua franca is Mandarin. There’s also a large Hakka minority.
The blue (mandarin) areas on the east coast are the areas with the highest percentage of indigenous.
I guess the sudden dark blue in the the northwest is some part of Taoyuan where a lot of waishengren (mainlanders arriving during the civil war, mostly former military families) live
taiwaanese as in 台语 aka 闽南话. hakka is its own thing and i’m sure there’s some indigenous person somewhere tht speaks tht too
Yeah I got banned for asking what this has to do with the comm.
it was a military dictatorship until the late 80s lol. there was martial law and curfews. it was a literal one party state. there were no debates or free exchange.
and the world-class economy was all because of the glory of capitalism and free enterprise and was not related to a) pillaged mainland gold reserves and b) investments from the american empire
TIL the White Terror was open debate