Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Why isn't CHINA supporting PUTIN in UKRAINE? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@doujinflip From at least the time of the Ming dynasty they have. Why do you think Japan had to give up Formosa (the former name of Taiwan) to China at the end of the Asia‐Pacific war with the USA if Taiwan hadn't originally belonged to it?
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@raed3620 Your using an entirely erroneous analogy, as well as a fallacious form of reasoning.
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@raed3620 The PRC is the successor to the ROC and as the latter did claim control over Taiwan (Formosa) so does the current government, its claim being a continuation of the previous government's claim. Taiwan is considered by Beijing as a province and its right of secession is not de jure recognised by the PRC.
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@raed3620 I never said it had. The Peoples Republic of China recognises the factual existence of the Republic of China as an independent entity but does not recognise its political legitimacy.
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@raed3620 Almost all the countries of the world recognise, implicitly or otherwise, the Peoples Republic of China as the sole, legitimate de jure government of the whole of China, including Taiwan. They may give de facto recognition to the existence of the Republic of China but officially it is the mainland that represents them both. And your claim that the The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that lasted at most 2 decades could somehow wipe out 3000 years or more of Chinese culture is ridiculous. By that reckoning Chinese culture would have been destroyed by the Mongols long ago, indeed every time China had a revolution, civil war or foreign invasion – things far more destructive than what the Red Guards ever did. And the written language of China has been merely simplified to make it easier to understand but it's still quintessentially Chinese. All the PRC government has done is introduce spelling reform. It's not like Chinese is now written in the Cyrillic or Latin alphabets; it's still ideographic but slightly more simplified. The Guomindang led by Chiang Kai‐Shek/Jiang Jie Shi lost the civil war to Mao Tse‐tung/Mao Zedong and ever since it has been considered a renegade province.
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