Maybe it's because I am *not* Chinese, but I fail to understand what in the heck ethnicity, language, writing, or anything else has to do with this. Taiwan doesn't "belong" to China any more than the U.S. to Great Britain.
- We speak English here in the U.S. yet we have *no* allegiance to the U.K.
- The majority of Americans are still of British descent, yet we have *no* allegiance to the U.K.
- The U.S. even used to be a British colony, yet today we have *no* allegiance to the U.K.
Sheesh. It's really simple -- the Communists swept over the mainland and those who didn't want to live under a totalitarian, murderous, UNfree society collectively said SCREW YOU to the Communists and fled to the island.
When the people on the mainland ditch Communism, when they let people WHO AREN'T COMMUNISTS run for office, when they let people vote for these NON-Communists, when they throw their totalitarian regime onto the ash-heap of history, *then* people might be willing to join them. Why doesn't Taiwan want to join the mainland? HOW DO YOU SAY 'DUH' IN CHINESE???
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I believe that would be " 廢話 "
(sounds like "fei hwa")
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well stated. Liberty is missing from people's rants here. Even though China is turning capitalist with its economy, they are still Clooney and Hillarys fantasy "perfect government" -- leftist totalitarian. The people are Taiwain desire to be "free" and freely elect their leaders. They are a very hardworking people.