POLL: Is the CCP (Communist China) technically a terrorist organization?

Philadelphia police bombed their own city’s neighborhood back in 85. 11 died. By you guys definition, this would make US government (Philly police particularly) terrorist, but I doubt the world would consider this terrorism. B/c you know it’s the super power and democratic nation.

Yes, other countries may well be classed as such too. But, please remember this isnt about other countries, it is about the CCP era of China.

Happy to have this conversation in another thread about other countries.

so again, so bold text:

So far the CCP is currently terrorising their own people (domestic terrorism) . They are also Doing this to Taiwan, and have done this in the past as well. This time they sent missiles.into Japanese territory. That alone isnt necessarily terrorism, but it is international.

expectation fulfilled. That’s why it is good to ask, then discuss.

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I took a Tibetan history class in college. Tibet broke away from any relations with the Han people around the time Buddhism moved into China from India. For all the “Mandarin Chinese is a language and everything else in Chinese is a dialect because we said so and look at our writing system it’s the same everywhere in China” that CCP shills will throw at you, Tibetan uses a phonetic script. We’re going back almost to proto-languages if we want to find cognates between Mandarin and Tibetan. Portugal has more claim over India than the CCP does over Tibet if you want to talk about culture and language having anything to do with one another anytime in recent (last 5000+ years) of human history.

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Since Tibet and Vietnam, they have occupied Indian claimed territory in the Himalayas

There are two definitions for terrorists.

One is a non-state actor that commits acts of violence for political purposes.

The other is any actor that accomplishes its purposes by striking fear in a population.

Bhutan, too.

Guy

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So, by definition, the answer is either “no” (in the first case) or “yes” in the second.

Guy

Correct

I’d expand the first to include state sponsors of terrorist acts like Iran.

The second is too general. Any organization/government even airing scare mongering commercials would be a terrorist then.

So yes, they fit the profile as terrorists. Another definition does not make the other void.

Hot means spicy, doesnt mean the temperature is not hot.

That’s the GW BUSH definition. If you harbor a terrorist, you are a terrorist.

They are not a terrorist state, because states can’t be terrorists (first definition has more validity, i think).

but they are nationalist and socialist only in the sense of pro-Han and pro-China, (i.e., nationalist) just like the National Socialist party in 3rd Reich Germany was.

other people should properly call them autocratic fascists. where’s that in the poll?

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Large and sophisticated crime syndicate? Modern day war lords?

The general hyperbolic tone of discourse on Forumosa means that people will vote that they are.

But they are also clearly not. They are an authoritarian nuclear state like other similar states in history.

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US has done a bunch of heinous shit. Like bombing Cambodia. I wouldn’t call them terrorists though.

It’s a stupid question

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Surprised by the result. I dont think terrorist organization is an accurate description, more dystopian governing body imo.

If we are going by this:
"terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. "

Colonialism and slavery was not long ago.

The Chinese Communist Party is a terrorist organization because using violence against civilians to bend them to the will of the Party is a long-standing tactic of the CCP.

“ The Great Leap Forward (sometimes referred to as the “Second Five Year Plan”) refers to an economic and social plan carried out by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party between 1958 and 1962. The campaign, which aimed to reconstruct the country’s agrarian society into an industrialized communist society (through the formation of “people’s communes”) was later viewed as one of the most horrific genocides of human history. Through excessive grain-collection policies that left Chinese farmers with nothing to eat (similar to the Holodomor in Ukraine), starvation quickly ensued across the countryside leading to famine conditions (later known as the “Great Chinese Famine”). Although Mao and the Communist Party would later claim that the famine was the result of bad weather conditions, it was actually a result of bad planning and unnecessary social and economic policies that placed political ambitions over the sanctity of human life.”

“ Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world? Most people probably assume that the answer is Adolf Hitler, architect of the Holocaust. Others might guess Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who may indeed have managed to kill even more innocent people than Hitler did, many of them as part of a terror famine that likely took more lives than the Holocaust. But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people – easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.”

Yeah but that isn’t terrorism.