Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "What did Nancy Pelosi achieve with her visit to Taiwan? | DW News" video.

@thysonsacclaim The CCP was actually upset when Taipei dropped the Nationalist Party's assertion. (!) This big shift was one of the first things to happen when the Nationalist Party lost its grip on Taipei. The ethnically Taiwanese never wanted a piece of the mainland. In this, there is something like it in Okinawa. While, now, part of Japan (Nixon gave Okinawa back to Tokyo) Okinawa always had its own ethnic population. Those folks were treated as trash by Tokyo during WWII. Even today, Okinawans are NOT treated as being truly Japanese. They can't suddenly depart for Tokyo and set up residence, for example. This is the same dynamic seen in Taiwan. Taiwanese are not Han Chinese. For the Han, Taiwan really IS an alien culture, alien land. It's not at all like Hong Kong or the New Territories. A similar ethnic schism existed in Malaya. Which is why Malaysia and Singapore exist as two separate polities at this time. But no-one considers Singapore to be part of Red China -- just because it's composed of Han Chinese -- rather overwhelmingly. The boat people of Vietnam were all ethnic Han Chinese -- who had been living in Vietnam for generations -- many generations. These tiny details never come up with Western talking-heads. They talk, they don't study.
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@flochforster22 Taiwan spent many, many years as a hunk of JAPAN. For most of known history, Taiwan/Formosa was it's own 'thing.' Only when China was really in the ascendant did the Emperors ever bother with Taiwan... an island of poverty -- filled with hicks. Even today, there is an ethnic split between the Taiwanese and the Nationalists who fled from the mainland. The latter reality is NEVER brought up in most conversations.
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@Shadowless_Kick Cantonese or Mandarin ? The local Taiwanese are not a trivial fraction of the population. Whereas, in the US, native populations are, all in all, tiny. (Some tribes are down to 40-members.) Until he Nationalist exodus, there were just not a lot of Han Chinese on that island. After all, it had been run by Tokyo until 1945. (!) The Japanese treated all of the locals very, very badly. The Americans forced them to leave -- by treaty. Until late in the Chinese Civil War, Taiwan was a total backwater.
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@yoichikirigami607 Absolutely no-one wants to fall under the yoke of the CCP. What are you smoking ? Tibet, Mongolia, Xinjiang all want out, too. Even the Koreans northwest of the Yalu want out. Red China is an empire: cruel and capricious. Xi may have just imploded the Red Chinese economy. We shall see.
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@frostflower5555 Yup. The US has tried, tried, tried to get Puerto Rico to leave... but it won't. It's on the dole. Virtually the entire population there is on Food Stamps -- and the common man is usually receiving free electric power. (It's stolen from the island's utility -- but the whole population is in on the scam. Mainland corporations pay the utility barely enough to keep it running.) Even with all of the Federal subsidies -- Puerto Rico is fundamentally BROKE. But Title 11 of the US Code does not allow for states/ territories to declare Chapter Nine Bankruptcy. ( Cities and Counties can. ) Bill Clinton destroyed the Puerto Rican economic engine when he stopped its income tax avoidance/evasion scam -- which was run at the behest of Big Pharma. But that's a story too long for a blog thread. The history remains: Puerto Rico loves things just the way they are. And they've had three-votes on the matter. They certainly don't want statehood. (Then the dole would end.) They don't want independence. (Then the dole would end forever. (The Cubans might even show up.) Guam and the Virgin Islands won't leave, either. Life is tough all over -- unless you're a recipient of American largesse.
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@PlaYer-sn5or There is the diplomatic world -- and its paper trail. Then there's the real world -- where totalitarian CCP thugs run roughshod over a sea of proles and fund an army of liars to contaminate the Internet... $0.50 at a time.
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