The last time someone tried to leave the US was thirteen states of the South. Every state houses passed succession and vied to leave the Union. The US leadership felt that a divided North America was not in American interest because foreign powers can play the US against the CSA and vice versa. Using the attack on Fort Sumter as a legitimate reason to attack the south (I think if Fort Sumter was never attacked, the US would have found another reason), the US crushed any aspiration for any state to opt for independence. Givened this historical US position on her own states, now we go overseas and lecture other nations (first Yugoslavian and now China) on how they cannot resolve succession movements with force and they must respect the aspirations desired by the breakaway regions or provinces? I don't know freepers. We have a full plate with the Islamic World in our WOT, we do not need to jump into another prolonged conflict with the most populated nation on earth.
Eventually China either has to change or the sh*t will hit the fan.
The previous Chinese leader (the one beloved of Feinstein) often used Lincoln as his model when explaining the mainland's position on using force against Taiwan.
The differences in your comparisons is one was/is a government of elected representatives the others were not.
Do you work for the ChiComs?
Are you just a sympathizer?
15 - "The last time someone tried to leave the US was thirteen states of the South. "
You have it backwards.
Red China left Nationalist China. The last traditional government of China is on Taiwan - Nationalist China. The breakaway part is Red China, which broke away from Nationalist China.