Would you want to move out of Taiwan and live in China if they unify?
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I started this poll mainly to ask those who wants reunification, but others are free to vote too. I’m just wondering if reunification really happened, will you stay in Taiwan or move out of Taiwan to live in the lovely reunifed country, China?
Well actually it depends -
maybe a few centuries later when China finally has standards of living that are the same as Taiwan’s then i might consider moving over.
But then again, considering i probably won’t live for that long -
so for this life - i’d live in Taiwan.
i mean the SHOPPING - oh shoppping! - ooh i just loooooove shopping
and the FOOD - oh foooood! - okay i’ll stop.
Depends how the reunification happened. If it was military, I know exactly where I’d live - New Zealand.
I changed the title of this thread from using the word “reunification” to “unification.” The first presupposes that Taiwan was a part of China that has yet to come back to the motherland – a point of contention.
Unification is more neutral and could be used to return to the motherland or join with a formerly separate entity.
– Wolf
While there’s a likelihood that I would go back and forth, I must admit that i don’t like them using the phrase “when” China and Taiwan unify. An “If” would look more appropriate.
What? Sure, some of you Taidu wackos out there might think that Taiwan was never handed back to the ROC at the Cairo Conference. But do any of you really claim that Taiwan was never part of China pre-Shimonoeski?
What? Sure, some of you Taidu wackos out there might think that Taiwan was never handed back to the ROC at the Cairo Conference. But do any of you really claim that Taiwan was never part of China pre-Shimonoseki?[/quote]
… and in the 1895 Treaty China ceded Formosa and the Pescadores to Japan in perpetuity … hence all previous claims by China, whether due to geography, language, history, politics, social organization, racial issues, etc. … were rendered null and void !
[quote=“wolf_reinhold”]I changed the title of this thread from using the word “reunification” to “unification.” The first presupposes that Taiwan was a part of China that has yet to come back to the motherland – a point of contention.
Unification is more neutral and could be used to return to the motherland or join with a formerly separate entity.
– Wolf[/quote]
hehe alright. I was thinking about whether to use unification or reunification in the first place too. But then the people who wanted China and Taiwan to unify uses ‘reunification’, so I’ve thought of using that instead, since this poll is mainly aimed at those people. Thanks for changing 
What? Sure, some of you Taidu wackos out there might think that Taiwan was never handed back to the ROC at the Cairo Conference. But do any of you really claim that Taiwan was never part of China pre-Shimonoseki?[/quote]
… and in the 1895 Treaty China ceded Formosa and the Pescadores to Japan in perpetuity … hence all previous claims by China, whether due to geography, language, history, politics, social organization, racial issues, etc. … were rendered null and void ![/quote]
Yeah, take that alidarbac!
I’ll use HK as an example. Pre-1997 everyone left out of uncertainty of what would happen after PRC took control. Post-1997 everyone came back because they realized it wasn’t that bad.
I assume the same will happen if a peaceful solution is found.
[quote=“ac_dropout”]I’ll use HK as an example. Pre-1997 everyone left out of uncertainty of what would happen after PRC took control. Post-1997 everyone came back because they realized it wasn’t that bad.
I assume the same will happen if a peaceful solution is found.[/quote]
Ah, the great Canadian passport giveaway. Not all of them came back, though. That is a very difficult demographic trend to measure. There was an article in the SCMP a while back that said 40% of them have completely resettled in HK, but that was just an estimate. A lot of them go back and forth, maintaining homes in both places. We also have to consider their dependents who didn’t get a passport before '97 but are now being sponsored to get Canadian citizenship. I think they have to reside in Canada for 3-5 years in order to get it as a dependent. There are a damn lot of Canadian passport holders in HK and I think there will continue to be a lot in later generations. It wouldn’t surprise me if in 50 years, there are thousands of Canadian citizens in HK who can’t speak English or French and have never set foot on Canadian soil.
You need a third option; ‘third country’.
ac_dropout
Sure you’ve been keeping up with events in HK lately. I have a lot of friends there (Chinese and foreign) who’ve been there for years and most of them says its much worse then before - its development has been stagnant at best while Taiwan has flourished since then…
I think HK is a perfect example of why to avoid unification
juvenilemania,
I believe that’s because like Taiwan everyone went the directly Shanghai or Guangdong to do business after 1997. A lot of companies that needed to communicate in Mandarin decided to give up their HK operations as well after 1997 and went directly to the mainland. Has nothing to do with unification per say, just more shifting of money and people in a larger country.
YEah and look at HK now. Not speaking about political rights etc, but HK just got uglier, dirtier and is not so much fun anymore. I’d live in a 3 country and maybe come back to Taiwan if it wasn’t really that bad…
The happening place for fun is Shanghai these days. Even Taiwanese and HK expat party there now.
[quote=“ac_dropout”]The happening place for fun is Shanghai these days. Even Taiwanese and HK expat party there now.[/quote]So fuck off and join them.
Uh, can’t we like, uh, have some :yinyang: every now and then?
People left Taiwan after the 921 earthquake in 1999, but they were sissies.
The one question is: Can you make money by being here in the event of an attack?
[quote=“wolf_reinhold”]People left Taiwan after the 921 earthquake in 1999, but they were sissies.
The one question is: Can you make money by being here in the event of an attack?[/quote]
Unlikely. There’d be so much money flowing to off-shore bank accounts there’d be not much left. CSB is good business for US California banks. It will just take 1 missile, not 500 to do the damage.