The CCP said officially a few times in the last few years that the 92 consensus is one country two systems.
90% of voters in Taiwan donât care about the 92 consensus, but itâs 90% of what the KMT talk about
Yea⊠I think çé»ćć« is basically just a fancy way of saying culturally Chinese.
This is the problem with applying American identity politics to other countries. They simply donât apply and will sound wrong when you translate it into English.
I think a good translator needs to understand this and word it in such a way that it doesnât scream âmaster raceâ to Americans.
Itâs done intentionally to get a reaction
The Chinese press on both sides seem focused with the use of æ±ćć°ç° from Chu, but I donât get why. I get it sounds weak and is weird use of words. Like âwe are looking for mutual respect of differencesâ.
Not sure if any native Chinese speaker can explain why itâs strange
I quite liked the way the Taipei Times translated it today as âseek common ground and respect differencesâ. Itâs more or less the impression it gave me when I read it on LTN yesterday.
Great analysis @OrangeOrganics It seems that Chu is trying to appease the hard-liners that voted for Chang rather than bringing the KMT finally out of 2008.
I thought æ±ć means âseek unificationââŠ
in disguise of course
But does it sound really feeble?
It reminded me of an interview to former Australian PM Kevin Rudd, who said that in order to establish healthy relations with China the two parties needed to concentrate on the 80% that they agree with and keep the remaining 20% out of the picture by agreeing to disagree. Although it was still Hu Jintaoâs China and of course Australia is not Taiwan.
It seems to me more like a wish to return to Maâs era of âletâs talk business and leave reunification to a faraway futureâ. But again, itâs 2021⊠If ten years ago the CCP was at least pretending to respect the KMT, now itâs already dictating the agenda like Chu is the new Carrie Lam.
The CCP arenât fucking around anymore. æčé©éæŸ Is well over.
The KMT have nothing to offer Beijing apart from handing over Taiwan sooner rather than later. They arent looking for friends.
The point of ECFA was to lead to bringing the economies closer together and make Taiwan dependant on China. Thatâs not the direction the two sides of the straits are going. Beijing has no interest being the KMTâs piggybank
The KMT are the stupidest guys in the room. At least the corrupt ones are just taking advantage of the situation for their financial benefit. I despise then, but donât think they are stupid.
The real idiots are the true believers. The CCP doesnât want peaceful trade between the straits, they want your land. Specifically to stick military bases on and kick the US out of the Asia Pacific
And democratic country with âChineseâ people next door is bad for CCPâs narrative.
People in China might get the wrong idea. Hong Kong and Taiwan are big thorns in CCPâs butt. HK was the easy one.
They mostly just want the land and then break up the first island chain. Everything else is secondary
Let me add, the ârespect differencesâ means nothing. Respect sounds nice, but thatâs about it. The CCP probably has expressed in the past that they ârespectâ the people of Tibet and the people of Hong Kong, etc. Do the people there feel respected, that is the question.
China is extremely happy with the North Korea situation despite pretending to agree with the western diplomatic establishment.
The hole point of existence for North Korea, is that China can use North Korea to extort South Korea, and in that process South Korea (SK also knowingly cooperating with China) can divert limited US resources and attention toward the peninsula, thus making the resource-scarce and geographically inconsequential peninsula seem more important than it really ought to be.
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It wasnât that long ago that China rather waged existential war and sent hundreds of thousands of infantrymen to Korea . In 1950, in 1895, in 1636. In fact, you can trace it all the way back to 598AD. That was then.
Now, ask the Chinese again if Korea is any part of their 100 year humiliation. Of course theyâd say no. Why? Because EVEN THE CHINESE themselves discovered the geographical inconsequentiality of Korea after the last Korean War the Chinese would ever fight.
I thought this was discussed here just about a year ago?
I guess we never knew they stuck around.
This sounds interesting
Good report. Thank you for posting this.
Guy