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China’s ambassador to Australia has urged Canberra to prepare for dealing with a “reunified China”, declaring Chinese people “will not forgive” countries that seek to obstruct Beijing’s push to bring Taiwan under its control.

In remarks that frame re­unification as inevitable and resistance as unforgivable, Xiao Qian likened Taiwan’s status to that of Tasmania and warned that any attempt of “compromising or openly distorting” Beijing’s one-China principle would constitute a retreat from prior commitments and erode trust.

He said Australia could not keep reaping the benefits of trade with China while seeking to block reunification, signalling economic consequences for ­resisting Beijing’s aims.

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Mr Xiao also lashed a recent [Australian] Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade statement that described China’s military and coast guard drills around Taiwan as “deeply concerning, destabilising and risk inflaming regional tensions”, and reiterated that Canberra opposed any unilateral attempt to change the status quo.

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He also cautioned governments, including Australia’s, against pursuing dialogue on Taiwan unless they were committed to reunification.

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  • freagle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Taiwan is incredibly rich

    Due to direct foreign investment from the West. It’s a tiny island nation that doesn’t have enough sand to produce chips without importing from China. Taiwan is not rich, it is well connected.

    Taiwanese enjoy a stable welfare state that would make even the Nordics jealous.

    China accounts for over 80% of world poverty alleviation for the last century.

    They can govern themselves and manage their national budget, which through the TSMC golden goose, is pretty fat.

    Again. Dependent entirely on Chinese imports and dependent heavily on Western markets and investors.

    Culturally, China is way behind. Look at the KTV songs and the “classic movies” in the Sinosphere, they’re most likely all from Taiwan.

    Holy shit. Taiwan shouldn’t integrate because TV is lame in China? Listen to yourself for a second.

    A lot of Taiwanese look at Chinese modern culture, way of life, mannerisms and think it’s quite tacky.

    Yeah, almost like they’re acting like the Brits and Yanks who look down on lower status people to the point that it’s literally a national zeitgeist.

    the only reason Taiwan would join China is to get protected from what China would do if it doesn’t. It’s equally imperialist

    That is so fucking myopic, I am ashamed I am even responding. Taiwan cannot defend itself from Japan let alone the US. It’s a protectorate with a comprador class that the imperialists keep fat and happy to maintain their imperial military presence. If Taiwan ever decided to snub the US, they would have no ability to defend themselves.

    The CPC doesn’t believe Taiwan is ready to integrate. They believe it will take many years. They also believe that forcing it to happen will be catastrophic. The path to integration relies on the continued collapse of the West. As the West does, Taiwan will have more and more reason to integrate. The challenge for the CPC is managing the critical moment where as the West is dying it attempts to destroy China. And Taiwan is a major component of the West’s ability to attack China.

    So long as the West does not advance its military power through Taiwan, China will leave the island alone and it will eventually integrate when it becomes rational to do so. But if the West moves to expand the military threat to China, it’s a signal that they will not allow their civilization to collapse without attempting to destroy China and China cannot allow that to happen.