Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Taiwan voters dismiss China warnings and re-elect ruling party" video.

  1.  @haixinzheng9759  "The only thing they have in common is that they will act as agents of one superpower to fight another superpower in war." Taiwan is not threatening PRC. Ukraine did not start a war with Russia. The only thing you say they have in common is a thing neither of them have at all. Remember the first thing the Biden administration offered Zelenski was safe passage out. His reply was "I don't need a ride, I need ammunition."
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  2.  @xinbozhang7206  I'm sure you wish that the same entity were in control of all parties. And you have a candidate for that power in mind.
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  3.  @NoNameToYou  American honor. Some Americans tend to be ignorant of world events, so let me remind you of who "Taiwan" is. Going back to the 20th century, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), [I] also referred to as the Guomindang ( GMD ), [17] the Nationalist Party of China was our WW2 ally against Imperial Japan. After the war we cut off arms supplies to the battle-weary Nationalists while Stalin was supplying full support to Mao's communists. The Nationalists lost the civil war and were exiled to the island of Formosa or Taiwan. (This was our first betrayal, without it there probably would not have been a Korean or a Vietnam War.) When Soviet supported North Korea invaded South Korea, precipitating the Korean War, the Republic of China (Taiwan), despite our recent betrayal, sent troops to support us along with our other allies. When Soviet supported North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam and we tried to do the same thing we had done in Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and Taiwan sent troops to support us while virtually ALL our NATO "allies", including the UK and Canada, stabbed us in the back diplomatically, condemning our efforts. In the midst of Taiwan's support the Nixon administration, wanting to take advantage of the political friction between the Chicoms and the Soviets after the death of Stalin and play mainland China against the USSR, transferred US diplomatic recognition from our ally to our enemy. (Second betrayal) In the aftermath of our refusal to supply South Vietnam with the arms promised in the peace treaty ending the Vietnam War (Yes, children, we won the war before we lost it, North Korea never signed a peace treaty, North Vietnam DID - third betrayal), the North Vietnamese Army invaded the South with more Soviet tanks and planes than the US deployed against the Normandy beachhead in WW2. Then the purges began. The situation in Vietnam was so bad that Vietnamese were trying to escape the country by trying to TRAVERSE THE PACIFIC in anything that could float, however marginally. (web search "vietnam boat people") Democratic reforms were implemented in the 1980s in Taiwan, and now Taiwan is a prosperous and thriving democracy. Taiwan is the world's main supplier of computer chips, a CAPITAL GOOD that undergirds our modern economy. The voters have indicated their desire to remain free. With respect to the "one China/two Chinas" issue, if our criterion is the "consent of the governed" then there is one China, the Republic of China (Taiwan). The mainland, the People's Republic of China is a renegade province. If our criterion is NOT the "consent of the governed", we owe King George an apology. Now others have gone on at length to explain the economic national interest we have in Taiwan. I'm not an economist. I am a moralist. Taiwan has been an active, loyal, and steadfast ally of the US for 80 years, for all her political history. They were our allies when we didn't have many. "But the Chicoms have nukes!". Yea, they'll have more the next time, and the next. We won the Cold War with containment and readiness, not appeasement. Appeasement is surrender on the installment plan. Since when was betraying our allies a "conservative" position? Shame on you! As long as the Lord blesses us, we have an obligation to be a blessing.
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  4.  yeetian2774  Saying that the rule of the party that wins the election is not democracy is a contradiction of terms. Your comment is incoherent.
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  5.  @woof8608  "They are quite happy with their political system." There is no way you can establish that. They are repressed from expressing their opinion. In fact, that they still protest in such an authoritarian environment is indication of a deep dissatisfaction. "Why we care about if they elect president or not." Because despots are enemies of mankind. PRC has a border dispute with all their neighbors and is claiming territory and threatening invasions. Because we care about the well being of our fellow men. Do you suppose that we have forgotten recent events in Hong Kong so soon? If you had honored your international agreements in Hong Kong just a little bit longer, you might have won the election before this one in Taiwan, and brought an end to democracy there. You can't pretend to be benign and oppress a high profile people at the same time. Of course by "we", I don't include propagandists for despots, with which I have little in common. Work on your speech pattern if you want to pose as a native English speaker. I can understand you just fine but your grammar is flawed in a way that sounds Chinese.
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