Comments by "Pepe Le Pew" (@pepelepew1227) on "What The Taiwanese Think of The Russia-Ukraine War and China | Street Interview" video.

@KM-jf6bn the western media didnt cover the taiwan issue in depth. for example, 40% voted for the pro-reunification party or taiwan was a military junta until the mid 90s free election, the same junta ushering taiwan into a developed economy. lack of western coverage is the reason few outsiders know independence would have met resistance internally. i think asian boss did a taiwan piece on the reunification issue. the divide was clear among the older adults and the millennials. the adults have felt the history of civil wars, alliances and foreign backings. the millennials are more influenced by what they read today.
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@KM-jf6bn maybe you can try living in taiwan or talk to any 1st generation asian working adult if they have that kind of western mindset. peace & prosperity trumps everything else. before 1997's hongkong handover, half of a million of the haves left for canada. the reason was simple: rich hk was afraid poor china will infuse communism and drag the country to poverty. to-date since the quelling of umbrella movement, 100 thousand out of almost 3 million eligible took up british citizenship offer and out of that a quarter are poised to return due to adaptation issues. it wasnt china that forces taiwan to reduce their conscription from 2 years to 4 months, the voters did that. it's not like their ancestors have lived there for a thousand years. they all came from china just several decades ago.
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@KM-jf6bn taiwan would need a xianfa overhaul for that to happen. duli was never a thing until meiguo. how many years did you live in taiwan to not know nobody wants to baisi or bianqiong?
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@KM-jf6bn we shall see then. the mainland prefers not to use violence to overtake that would breed animosity for generations to come. right now they are playing a long game of avoiding conflicts until such time the us is overtaken.
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@KM-jf6bn the us sold weapons to everybody with money. without troops commitments and assuming a quick war, taiwan is a sitting duck anything from raw materials to basic needs such as water. china could destroy taiwan internally from sanctions alone; semiconductor technology is not coca cola's secret recipe. remember the mainland is just a narrow strait across, china wouldnt have supply chain difficulties and could keep coming back. how many loss of lives can americans tolerate before political cost exact its toll on the incumbent?
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@KM-jf6bn yes thats true, the west would support them unofficially. the questions are a) for how long, b) at what inflation price esp the availability of water and c) how will china screw those arrangements without dropping a single bomb? china runs a cartel on rare earth the same way saudi&opec toys around with oil and the americans with agricultural commodities. emerging powers are no longer primitive in their approaches.
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@KM-jf6bn i will give u a few ways that i could think of just from sitting on a toilet. these are all non-military in nature: seeding clouds to see less rainfall on taiwan. targeted export tariff like the us levied on china. sending haze (industrialised taiwan itself is a major polluter) cease all imports of garbage/recyclables from taiwan. jacking up the price of solar panels. stopping shipment of water from fujian. :they can survive during the kuomintang days because needs are basic and population small. today industrialised taiwan would see a precipitous drop in standard of living that would see loyalties flip.
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