You must’ve misinterpreted the context.
IMO, it should be interpreted as following:
“Mainland China claims that Taiwan is still a part of China, and they will be forced to take it back by force, or even erase it from the map, if Taiwan or anyone tries to challenge this territorial integrity.”
It makes more sense in this way, putting aside what might truly happen under that scenario.
I appreciate your take on it. China needs to know that the rest of the world sees it’s blind ambition for what it is.
China has plenty of land mass. It’s doing just fine. It doesn’t need Taiwan for anything other than a self-imposed face saving move. China should not be going postal over Taiwan. Taiwan has been independent since the 1950s. Where was the Communist government of China all that time?
Now China has been shooting it’s mouth off for the last decade and a half, and they can’t afford to back down. It’s all about the face, the mainland made itself look like an ass over.
Taiwan formerly Formosa has been removed from China throughout history. The main reason why China today want’s Taiwan is because Taiwan was the place the old leadership fled to during the revolution. The commies haven’t been able to live that down since.
Taiwan is a progressive astute international business climate nation that has nothing to do with the mainland. It’s separate. It has had a separate government since the 1950s. Formosa wasn’t a part of China. It was independent through the early 1900s.
Frankly, I bristle at the idea that Taiwan is under threat of destruction by the mainland. China has a lot of nerve building up it’s armaments across the straits from it. This is 1930s Germany all over again. The equivalent of the NAZIs of Europe are now running China.
The NAZIs demanded Austria, then Poland... then WWII.
What’s China’s goal here, the Spratleys, Hong Kong, Taiwan, then WWIII?
China thinks it was turned the clock forward to 2050. Instead it has turned the clock back to 1938.
China’s blind ambition knows no bounds. It is the current global bully on the Asian block, and plans to be the scourge of the whole planet in ten to fifteen years.
Heard of the Spratley Islands? Those islands are in dispute between the Philippines, Vietnam, and of course good old China. So what did China do? Did it go to an international tribunal and try to work something out? No.
China built a military base there, making it quite clear that it was prepared to use military force to take the islands all for itself.
This was not only an open act of aggression, it was a strategic move intended to build a choke point for ships of other nations wishing to transition to the Indian Ocean.
China is headed for war. If that’s what it wants, I say bring it on right now. There’s nothing to be gained by waiting for the inevitable.
Nations like WWII Germany and China, don’t learn until their leadership is erased from the map. Since China has made the fateful choice to go down that road, we just as well do it now before it can take the planet with it.
China cares nothing about it’s people. They are useful pawns right now, but when it’s military is built up to it’s desired strength, the leadership will gladly expend upwards of 75% of them, as it decimates other nations in the process, it’s goal to wind up the premier nation after a global conflict.
Can’t wait to see what magic it would work then.
No, people outside China have it pegged rather accurately. China’s leadership is just too stupid to realize it. It’s also too stupid to see that it’s leadership will wind up like Hitler’s. Sadly it will take a lot of wonderful Chinese people with it, along with tens of millions of people from other nations. That’s the real shame.
China’s main cities still wind up as cinders.
So Phoebe, I’m sorry to have to be the one to lay this out for you. The government of China is a psycho organization. It has been since it’s inception, killing off 50 million of it’s own people to gain and maintain power.