Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Everybody is dodging the central moral issue. The consent of the governed is the source of governmental legitimacy. The democratic government of Taiwan has it, the CCP does not.
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  2. I don't understand the question. How would doing the Philippines a bad turn 100 years ago mean that we can't or shouldn't do them a good turn today? That makes no sense.
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  3.  @billyhe2724  " There is no such thing as Taiwan nation, but really who is the legitimate government of the ONE china." Oh, well that's easy! The source of legitimacy is the consent of the governed. The current government of the island is a democracy, so it is legitimate. The current government of the mainland is a despotic anachronistic relic of Soviet imperialism, so it is not. So, by your standard there is only one Chinese legitimate government, located in Taipei. The mainland is a renegade province.
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  4.  @billyhe2724  "ROC lost a civil war they started." At worst the Kumingtang did this. The Kumingtang is not even the party in power in Taiwan. The notion that something some dead people did more than half a century ago justifies you enslaving a third party is absurd.
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  5.  @GENBOGA  "You don't understand Russian history well. For Russians, Ukraine is their homeland." You don't understand self-determination very well. A foreigner's delusions are not material to a people's national rights. If you were unwilling to leave the Ukrainians to their country, you shouldn't have signed a treaty recognizing their sovereignty.
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  6. True, and even if they were Chinese, that would not give the CCP the right to enslave them. When you rob and dispossess someone and kill his family and take his house, does that mean you "inherit" what he managed to escape with? The source of legitimacy is the consent of the governed. The democratic government of Taiwan has it, the CCP does not.
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  7.  @robertmukuka8565  Technically, the end of Putin won't be the end of Russia, unless China invades.
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  8. If the CCP tries to make a diplomatic incident about a navy vessel cruising in international waters, the CCP is in the wrong. The origin of the Taiwan issue is the success of Soviet imperialism in the mainland.
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  9. Nobody is claiming that taking Japan was not invading, it was invading to end the war by force. We had no intention of keeping Japan and did not. Not all military presence is occupation. Occupation is the use of military force to maintain political control, as China does in Tibet and to the Uigurs. South Korea is an independent democracy. From the 50s to today the US presence in South Korea is to deter aggression from her acquisitive communist neighbors, by the consent and invitation of the indigenous democratic (and thus legitimate, unlike some others) national government. The CCP government is an anachronistic relic of Soviet imperialism and has no business oppressing China, much less trying to dictate the affairs of its neighbors.
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  10.  @billyhe2724  "That's why I said one china without saying which government." Exactly, in order to evade the MORAL issue.
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