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Yes, China is an amazing 5000-year civilization.
But Taiwan was governed by "China" for only 212 years — that’s only 4% of the time!
In other words, Taiwan has been governed by "China" for less time than Spain ruled the Philippines!
Only the Manchu-Qing (a non-Han dynasty) governed part of Taiwan from 1683–1895 → 212 years.
Then the KMT-ROC military dictatorship ruled from 1945–1987 → 42 years.
The PRC has NEVER governed Taiwan.
In 1996, Taiwan held its first direct presidential election and became a full democracy.
From that point onward (and even since 1949), Taiwan has fully satisfied every objective criterion of the UN’s own Montevideo Convention for statehood: permanent population, defined territory, effective government, and capacity to enter into relations with other states.
Today Taiwan is still separate AND independent from the PRC and is a thriving sovereign democracy exercising full control over its territory and people.
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稍微给外国朋友们解释一下，你在推特上见到大量来自中国的色情内容以及中国网民关于骂人方面的攻击力，是因为中国网民普遍具有“性压抑”，还有“辱骂压抑”。
性压抑是因为中国没有任何一个被官方允许的色情网站与色情产业，并且在你上幼儿园到高中毕业的这段时间里，你作为青少年的任何恋爱行为都被老师和家长严厉制止。
因为中国的校方和学生们的家长们认为这不利于学生考一所好的大学。
这些人长大后，如果有一天拿到了vpn，百分之90会立刻登陆pornhub或者在推特上如饥似渴的浏览从前无法接触到的色情内容。
因为青少年时期长期被压抑的正常的关于爱与性的想法，会导致他们一旦进入到了那个被许可去爱，被许可做爱的年纪后，会展现出惊人的淫荡，就像沙漠里的人长途跋涉后终于喝到了第一捧水那样，对各种性癖，各种性爱技术趋之若鹜。
青少年时代的恋爱与做爱这在全世界正常国家都是一件理所应当的事，但是在中国会被冠上“早恋”的名义进行污化，这是中国人普遍的性压抑的源头，而“早恋”这个概念是从前苏联教育模式里诞生，被中国拿来直接用的，这里就不展开讲了，你们只要知道中国政府因为历史原因受前苏联影响很深就可以了。
那么“辱骂压抑”是什么呢，这个词是我现编的，但我会给你解释这是怎么回事。
中国互联网上有全世界最严格的言论审查，你可以自己搜索一下关于中国领导人以及中国官方的各种屏蔽词的数量有多少个，这些资料网上都有公开的统计。
这些数量庞大的屏蔽词已经影响到了中国普通网民在中国互联网上的自由表达，他们不得不使用拼音缩写、谐音词这样类似的东西去进行反屏蔽来表达自己真正的想法。
当然了，辱骂方面的词汇也在这些屏蔽词库里，也就是说，你在推特上见到的那些攻击力惊人的辱骂文字，在中国互联网里百分之90是无法发布成功的，所有中国网络平台都会自动对那些内容进行拦截。
但即便如此，关于最高层政治的一切与官方论调不同的想法，你无论再怎么用谐音词和拼音缩写去表达都是不安全的，因为你表达的太明显，会有专门负责这项任务的网络警察在现实生活里把你叫到派出所去给你警告，情节严重的会直接关进监狱里。
比如说你人在中国，但是你在推特上骂了习近平，网警会想尽一切办法把你这个人的真实信息挖出来，最后把你押送到派出所，我知道讲到这里很多外国人已经震惊到目瞪口呆无法相信了，但所有中国人都知道这是真的，因为专门用于这类任务的钱，在中国有专门的称呼，叫做维稳经费。
在大概十年前，中国对于维稳经费的投入就已经超过中国军费的投入了。并且抓捕一个在外网辱骂习近平的中国人，在相关部门眼里属于政绩，他们内部有指标的，你们觉得谁会这么无聊天天盯着境外互联网看看哪个中国人骂习近平了，但是这是人家相关部门的正常工作，抓你们是他们的工作内容之一。
如果你是一个正在学习中文的外国人，想通过浏览中国的社交媒体来看看中国网民的想法并融入中文社区。
我很遗憾的告诉你，这是十分困难的，因为中国年轻网民之间已经形成了一套他们自己能看懂但圈子外面人看起来像天书的话术，用你们外国人能看懂的话解释就是中国年轻网民发明出了自己的“黑帮用语”来对抗中国政府的言论审查与屏蔽词库。
那么在推特上，在境外互联网的论坛上，这个限制中国人表达的屏蔽词库没有了，等于中国人被压抑许久的攻击力被彻底解放了，你会看到类似撒旦从地狱里出现在现世般的力量，你会被终于能自由表达的中文的古老的血脉所震撼，无论是关于辱骂也好，文学也好，都是十分精彩的。
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Canada’s invocation of the Emergencies Act was found to be illegal.
Alberta’s public health orders were found to be illegal.
Governments demanded compliance of the vax “for the public good.” Then they abandoned the injured.
Where are the consequences for those in power?
Where is the recognition of the harm done to the people?
How do those involved have the audacity to lecture citizens about responsibility when they have yet to answer for their own decisions?
And how are we supposed to trust leaders who demand accountability from everyone but themselves?
You cannot convince me they are working for the people while they fight so hard to avoid accountability and refuse to acknowledge those harmed.
Public office is not a shield from consequences. Those who refuse to answer for their mistakes or the harm they caused have no business holding power or lecturing the rest of us about right and wrong.
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Yes, the PRC is trapped.
If they stop threatening military violence then Taiwan formally declares and all the CCP lies are exposed.
But if the PRC continues to threaten then Taiwan + USA + Japan continue to forcefully maintain the status quo = Taiwan is already separate and independent from the PRC.
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Unlike CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, AP, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian--@wikileaks has never had to retract a published story because of false information.
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轉：北京亮马桥经典视频，百看不厌，比电影还拍得好。
中共学生： 我刚刚收到消息， 让大家要注意的事， 现在在我们的群众当中， 有境外反华势力， 在我们的周围……
自由学生：
您这边请……
去你M个B!
我们都是中国人,我们都是中国人， 我们都是爱国者。
请问？！
你说的境外势力是马克思和恩格斯吗？
是马克思和恩格斯吗？
是斯大林吗？
是列宁吗？
这才是境外来的！
马克思是德国人。
不要扣帽子，不要转移话题。
要不要自己想？
请问新疆的火是境外是你放的吗？
请问贵州的大巴是境外势力推翻的吗？
大家伙是境外势力叫来的吗？
不是！！！
我们连网都上不到国外的。
我们哪来的境外势力？！
境外势力怎么跟我们沟通？！
我们只有境内势力不让我们聚集！
我们现在是能出国还是能上国外的网？！
都不能！
他们怎么联系我们？
联系不上！
哪来的境外势力？
月球吗？！
我们只想要自由。
去他妈的境外势力！
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People who invested heavily in the official pandemic narrative tend to interpret evidence in ways that protect the original narrative rather than assess it objectively. That's why so many resources were put towards behavioural science and messaging instead of proper tracking during the pandemic and why the vaccine injured have had to struggle in unimaginable ways.
Today's testimony brought me to tears. Meanwhile, @acoyne refers to it as "horseshit."
We're all different.
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不是每个海外华人都是中国人。
新加坡华人是新加坡人，台湾华人是台湾人，马来西亚华人是马来西亚人。
族裔不等于国籍，文化背景也不代表政治身份。
中共不等于中国，更不代表我们认同中共的思想与制度。
请关注：@ChinaTruth
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The CCP and its social media soldiers choose to repeatedly lie about everything related to Taiwan.
They do not care about the truth, freedom of choice, nor peace.
For example, they love to illogically cite 2758 as "proof" that the PRC owns and governs Taiwan while simultaneously threatening military violence against Taiwan "separatists".
There's nothing wrong with stating the opinion "I want Taiwan to join the PRC".
But these people are either totally ignorant of Taiwan's history or willfully lying about reality.
Either way, they are delusional and dangerous.
So Taiwan is ironically forced to allie with Japan and the USA to maintain the status quo.
Same idea as in 1995 and 1996 when the CCP fired missiles at Taiwan during our first democratic presidential election!
So WHY would the Taiwanese work so hard to end the foreign military dictatorship of the KMT-ROC in 1987 and build our own democracy only to choose to join the military dictatorship of the CCP-PRC ???
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This is an excellent question let me try and be nuanced and precise.
I absolutely recognize Trump, like any and all politician, as imperfect vessels(I will probably do a podcast on my issues with Trump as my issues with Trump are not the popular anti-Trump issues). I also think he is without any hesitation the best the US has produced to date to deal with the very real problems the world faces.
I frame proposals on how to deal with issues like China on are they willing to pull the trigger on unpopular decisions and are they willing to accept or impose costs?
The absolute stone cold reality is there are an entire mountain of unpopular decisions that need to be made that nobody wants to make or even acknowledge exist. If you want to reconfigure global supply chains away from an authoritarian communist state you have to make a lot of unpopular decisions. You want one area where I am not a Trump fan? He simply isn't moving fast enough or aggressively enough and isn't willing enough to make the hard decisions to prepare America. However, he has been easily the most willing to push the issue of attempting to decouple/derisk the United States from China and frankly it isn't even close even with his relatively marginal achievments. You absolutely have to have the willingness to be the bad guy because there are a lot of unpopular decisions to be made. This is true of global supply chains all the way through to how we work with allies.
Next making the changes that need to be made are going to be expensive and risky. Moving things like global supply chains and getting allies to where they need to be are neither cheap or riskless. The status quo, which is the road to perdition, is the cheapest and most risk free road. If you aren't willing to impose costs and you aren't willing to take risks, you are going to lose because nothing will ever happen. Again these concepts apply from supply chains to allies. President Trump has with zero hesitation shown greater willingness to take risks and impose costs to change the status quo than previous presidents. From the coming increase in defense spending to pushing to change defense contracting and manufacturing, rare earths, and other things. Let's make clear that we do not see the fruit of those efforts yet. However, there is very clearly greater push to change the complacency of the status quo.
Part of the reason I have said so repeatedly noted the fallacy of simply attributing the global problems to a personality is that it overlooks such profound structural fissures. This is why I draw the distinction between repairing the relationship do you mean people smile at a press conference or do you mean clear tangible policy actions by both sides to address a real problem? One of the biggest problems is that most US allies simply do not have the same interests we have or want others to have. That's just fact not a personality issue
As the saying goes, I would rather a president deal with the world we have rather than the world grad students want to have
Agreed, that it is a complex issue.
But let me flip that question.
Do you think that person in the WH is the right person to unravel this and create what you talk about?
He may not be THE impediment but is he a facilitator of that goal? Opening salvos in 2025 arguably "necessary". There is an argument that his time as Avatar for those policy goals has passed and he is unable/unwilling to adapt tactics.
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This is how to reply to the CCP propaganda script - that is driven by ideology, Party loyalty, and often direct financial or career incentives - whenever they claim that Cairo, Potsdam, and UN Resolution 2758 are “international law” proving PRC sovereignty over Taiwan.
Here are the questions their script still cannot answer:
1. Which exact sentence in UN Resolution 2758 states that Taiwan’s separate status was eliminated or that Taiwan became a province of the PRC? Quote it directly.
2. The full text of Resolution 2758 contains **zero** language about Taiwan’s territory, sovereignty, or any transfer to the PRC. It only restores PRC rights at the UN and expels “representatives of Chiang Kai-shek.” How does this qualify as “international law” settling Taiwan’s status?
3. If Resolution 2758 already proved PRC sovereignty in 1971, why has the CCP spent 55 years aggressively pressuring countries, airlines, the UN, and organizations to repeat its version — as if the “law” isn’t actually settled at all?
4. The Cairo Declaration (1943) and Potsdam Proclamation were wartime political statements by the US, UK, and ROC. The PRC did not exist and signed none of them. None of these are treaties or binding international law capable of transferring sovereignty. Why does your propaganda script falsely call them “international law”?
5. Japan signed the 1952 Treaty of Taipei with the ROC — not the PRC. Why does the script cherry-pick old declarations while ignoring the actual post-war treaty the Republic of China signed?
6. Even under state succession principles (which are a doctrine, not settled law), the PRC’s claims fail because it has never exercised effective control over Taiwan and the actual succession facts do not support automatic transfer. How does your script ignore this?
7. The PRC has **never** governed Taiwan since 1949. Taiwan’s people have rejected unification under the CCP in every democratic election and in consistent public opinion polls showing unification support in single digits. How is any of this “irrefutable”?
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"China" governed Taiwan only once and only for 200 years. That ended in 1895 ! So "China" is not a parent nor guardian to Taiwan because some Han migrated. Also, the KMT-ROC are not Taiwan. They were a foreign military dictatorship that forcefully occupied Taiwan from 1945 until 1987. Taiwan successfully democratizaed. So did the Philippines, South Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, and Indonesia. The PRC infamously failed in 1989. The CCP can either evolve from within or it will be eliminated externally.