Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why Taiwan is NOT Ukraine" video.

  1. That's assuming China survives intact once the Taiwanese insurrection gets quelled, which could take years if not generations. The Mainland depends on imports for food and fuel, and sanctions or not civilian ships will be scared off and China's global customers are going to more aggressively seek permanent alternatives. More likely unrest at home over food prices and quality (think Shanghai except everywhere and more defiant) will flare up and only grow as rations get taken from periphery security forces to keep more core functions fed -- the PLA is not nearly big enough to do battle with the rest of China.
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  2. The ROC (Táiwān) also claims itself as the successor to Qing China, but unlike the PRC actually dates back to the fall of the Empire. This split wasn't fundamentally caused by an external occupier setting up a government in its image, but by an internal struggle for power that's quite normal throughout Chinese history. Arguably "China" has more parallels with the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires after the fall of the original Rome, especially if you include all their claims over all of Mongolia and bits of nearly all its neighbors. Plus China spent a lot of its own time as separated and competing concurrent dynasties, so it's also outright conquest as much as "reunification".
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