If the China invaded, would you fight to defend the Taiwan from Chinese rule?
I’m an ROC citizen and would get drafted
I’m an ROC citizen but I plan to get the hell out
I’m not an ROC citizen but I would volunteer if possible
I’m not an ROC and I plan to get the hell out
I will round up dissidents for the PRC
It’s not worth fighting over, Hong Kong is doing OK, I’ll stay here.
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Just wondered
For the Non Taiwanese citizens I’m assuming that there would be some sort of International Brigade, like in the Spanish Civil War and you had a choice whether to join up or fly off to a new job somewhere safe.
Taiwanese citizens have a choice too in a sense, you could take a job in the US or even China to avoid it if you kept up with current events and knew it was coming.
I’m thinking of the the scenario I thought of here,
A KMT administration gets into a war with Japan, allied with the PRC and then the PRC tries to grab Taiwan. Though it is of course possible that a war might start because a DPP administration declares indepedences and is disavowed by the US.
Either way, PLA troops arrive and the Taiwan military decides to fight. What are you gonna do?
Would I die for Taiwan? About as much as I’d die for the UK.
Would I die for the half-witted bunch of bozos some people laughingly refer to as “the government” here?
I would write some VERY stern letters to the editor for Taiwan. And I would refrain from buying any big-ticket made in China items, like cars and yachts. Also, I’d double my consumption of Japanese schoolgirl porn, just to spite China.
I’d up sticks and take my family away. Then I’d post interminable jingoistic rants on sundry bulletin boards exhorting the Taiwanese to STAND and FIGHT the oppressor if they truly love their country. I mean, that’s no different to what the average Taiwanese does, is it?
We are assuming that there will be a fight, meaning that the armed forces here will be “allowed” to defend their “Motherland”… I foresee breaks in communication and chain of command, when not direct sabotage and orders to surrender.
Since that concept of “loving the Motherland” has already been abused ad nauseaum, and since current fighting age generation consists mainly of strawberries, while high brass that still thinks we have to regain the Mainland is already mostly 6 feet under or already in the PRC… this is a difficcult question to ponder.
Based on the Central American experience, we still need a steady supply of weapons, access to supply lines, and people driven up to a wall. That is not the case here.
Myself, if there is a war to be fought, what the heck, better die here for a good cause than back home feeding the same injustices.
The physical land mass of Taiwan
The constitution of the ROC
The 3 principles of the people
Taiwan society whose members and citizens seem not to care anyway
War is great as a distraction and the KMT could at last prove they are true blooded Chinese, and defending all Chinese peoples’ interests from Japanese imperialism.
I am sure that the administration could pump up the “LOVE TAIWAN” rhetoric mixed with a bit of “CHILDREN OF THE DRAGON” rhetoric to please their masters in Beijing
If war was imminent, I with my family would be out of here ASAP. I or my family are not fighting and dying for a bunch of greedy nationalist fanatics, whose only concern for me would be my ability to slaughter their enemy. Thing is I would feel sorry for Taiwanese who would end up betrayed again, this time by another despot.
Yeah kind of like the Balkans where the Balkans was in the spheres of influence of the Ottoman Empire and the Austria-Hungary empire. And what was the result of that, oh that’s right a blood bath and ethnic cleansing. The Ottoman Empire trying to undermine the Austria-Hungary Empire via proxy and vice versa. Then throw in Russia, Prussia, France, and Britain who all wanted to “help out”
[quote=“ac_dropout”]The average Taiwanese doesn’t know much about the Balkins. So there’s not much of a lesson they can take away from it.
I think the take away most Taiwanese have about European history, is how to avoid the bloody mess in the first place.
Not to say Chinese history is not as bloody, but it is more relavant.[/quote]
And why learn anything that could be relevant when you only need history that can be used to support a specific argument. Since it’s a Chinese problem that is created and bound to Chinese culture and history, then foreigners can’t understand and history outside of the middle kingdom is irrelevant and distracting :loco:
[quote=“ac_dropout”]The average Taiwanese doesn’t know much about the Balkins. So there’s not much of a lesson they can take away from it.
I think the take away most Taiwanese have about European history, is how to avoid the bloody mess in the first place.
Not to say Chinese history is not as bloody, but it is more relavant.[/quote]
so, you’re trying to say that you learn nothing from this lesson?
if you do, then you’re not the average taiwanese. if you don’t that doesn’t necessarily mean that you are average Taiwanese either.
and the big take away lesson from Chinese history, especially over the loast 50 years, is YOU CANNOT TRUST THE CHINESE GOVT. they say one thing, then do another: stab you in the belly while kissing you.
look at how Mao cosied up to Nehru to get the UN security Council permanent seat, and then, two weeks after that was achieved, and he hugged and kissed Nehru amid much fanfare and declaration of life-long friendship between the two countries, the Chinese invaded India. Nothing has changed, only the names on the top seat. the nationalistic policy, the unmerited expectation, the self-centered arrogance, and the driving philosophy are the same.
:loco: