qqq3, China is over 90% Han and the Han people believe in a common ancestor and share a common literature. We may not be able to understand each other‘s spoken language, but we share the same literature whether it is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Confucian classics. This is unique to Chinese civilisation. No other country can be like China in this regard.
The CCP has to take as reality the nature of Chinese society which is deeply rooted in its own history and tradition. The CCP cannot operate in Western society or Russian society. It operates in the reality of Chinese society. So as Mao Zedong said very early on: in the end, practice leads theory. You begin with reality, seeking truth from facts. The CCP is capable of leading the Chinese people but it is certainly not capable of leading other people. By the way CCP do not wish nor has any obligation to lead other people so please mind you own business.
Most technocratic government? Then why still not developed high income country like Japan, SK, and Singapore?
The CCP took into account the nature of chinese society? You mean by destroying the The Four Olds: Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Customs of chinese people during the cultural revolution. Mao considered the Confucian belief system to be bourgeois and reactionary, a philosophy that had too long kept the chinese people backward. So “The Analects” was banned and Confucian texts burned. Qufu Confucius’s tomb was blown up by the Red Guard. Next, chinese architecture were destroyed, classical literature and Chinese paintings were torn apart, and Chinese temples were desecrated. With all that destruction of chinese culture and caused by the CCP during Mao's era, I think remnants of true traditional chinese culture can only be found among its diaspora, where Malaysian/singaporean/taiwanese chinese are more attuned to traditional chinese culture.
the most vibrant city in the world is Shenzhen, just across the border from HK, but they prefer to be Grab drivers and waitresses in London than be managers and professionals in Shenzhen.
Taiwan didn't blow up Confusious' tomb, unlike the PRC. Traditional chinese culture in mainland China was destoyed by the CCP. They didn't just abandoned it or changed it, they went so far as to destroy it, and even killed people so that it doesn't even exist in the mind.
And btw, Taiwan is a high-income economy unlike China. So talks of the CCP government being the best form of government that can govern the chinese people is false. That's probably why the CCP wants to take over Taiwan, it a testament to their failure. That there is a viable and better alternative to one-party dictatorship rule. So your love for the CCP is not based on facts, but ideological driven.
Uniting Taiwan? You mean by invading and killing Taiwanese and taking everything the Taiwanese built through their own hardwork. As if destroying chinese culture wasnt enough, now thhe CCP wants to fight with other chinese. Barbaric. Let me guess, you expect the CCP to "adapt" or "reinvent" themselves out of that too XD.
Taiwan has never been under the People Republic of China. How can they reunify with something they were never a part of? The PRC should just leave the Taiwanese alone, stop being war mongerers.
Taking Taiwan will be easy? Hahaha, that's jsut CCP propaganda. No war is easy. Especially if it's on enemy territory.
Modern China is trying to combine the ideas of Marxism and Confucianism to create what is called an ideal utopian society "大同世界" common prosperity. =========
wang huning :
“Since 1949, we have criticized the core values of the classical and modern structures, but have not paid enough attention to shaping our own core values.” Therefore: “we must create core values.” Ideally, he concluded, “We must combine the flexibility of [China’s] traditional values with the modern spirit [both Western and Marxist].”
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Taiwan has never been under the People Republic of China. How can they reunify with something they were never a part of? The PRC should just leave the Taiwanese alone, stop being war mongerers.
Taking Taiwan will be easy? Hahaha, that's jsut CCP propaganda. No war is easy. Especially if it's on enemy territory.
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if China choose to sanction / punish / cut off Taiwan, Taiwan will collapse politically and economically immediately.
Then china won't get its supplies of advance semiconductors, very important in powering anything that needs decent computing power. How will factories assembling iPads in China run without supplies of Apple M1 chip that can only be manufacured by Taiwan. So China will only shoot itself in the foot.
Plus, China may be the biggest market (in PPP), but it's not the only market. And unless they control the financial system like the US does, sanctions wont work to the degree of collapsing Taiwan. It's more likely that Taiwanese will be more angry and hate China, making "reunification" even more unlikely.
Q1: What is the U.S. “One China” policy? Why does it exist?
A1: When the United States moved to recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and de-recognize the Republic of China (ROC) in 1979, the United States stated that the government of the People’s Republic of China was “the sole legal Government of China.” Sole, meaning the PRC was and is the only China, with no consideration of the ROC as a separate sovereign entity.
The United States did not, however, give in to Chinese demands that it recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan (which is the name preferred by the United States since it opted to de-recognize the ROC). Instead, Washington acknowledged the Chinese position that Taiwan was part of China. For geopolitical reasons, both the United States and the PRC were willing to go forward with diplomatic recognition despite their differences on this matter. When China attempted to change the Chinese text from the original acknowledge to recognize, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher told a Senate hearing questioner, “[W]e regard the English text as being the binding text. We regard the word ‘acknowledge’ as being the word that is determinative for the U.S.” In the August 17, 1982, U.S.-China Communique, the United States went one step further, stating that it had no intention of pursuing a policy of “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan.”
To this day, the U.S. “one China” position stands: the United States recognizes the PRC as the sole legal government of China but only acknowledges the Chinese position that Taiwan is part of China. Thus, the United States maintains formal relations with the PRC and has unofficial relations with Taiwan. The “one China” policy has subsequently been reaffirmed by every new incoming U.S. administration. The existence of this understanding has enabled the preservation of stability in the Taiwan Strait, allowing both Taiwan and mainland China to pursue their extraordinary political and socioeconomic transitions in relative peace.
Q2: What is the U.S. position on who has sovereignty over Taiwan?
A2: In the San Francisco Treaty of Peace of 1951, Japan renounced “all right, title and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores.” Neither the Republic of China nor the People’s Republic of China were parties to the treaty, and thus neither was declared a beneficiary of the Japanese renouncement.
While President Richard Nixon’s private notes show him willing to recognize the status of Taiwan as determined and part of China, subsequent U.S. documents and statements show the United States as having no position on the Taiwan sovereignty question.
The U.S. position regarding sovereignty over Taiwan remains steady and consistent with its “one China policy”: both sides of the Taiwan Strait should mutually and peacefully agree to a resolution of this as yet unsettled issue. The United States doesn’t agree with Beijing’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, nor does it agree with Taipei that the ROC is an independent, sovereign state.
Q7: Why is China so fearful of Taiwan becoming independent?
A7: With the return of Hong Kong to Chinese control in July 1997, Taiwan remains one of the few areas over which Beijing claims sovereignty but does not control. It is widely viewed by Chinese on the mainland as the last vestige of the century of humiliation that began with the Opium Wars in the middle of the nineteenth century. The persisting separation of the mainland and Taiwan is also portrayed as a hindrance to China’s reemergence as a great power, which President Xi Jinping has dubbed the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy is linked to its pledge to achieve reunification of Taiwan with the motherland. A commonly held view on the mainland is that no Chinese leader could remain in power if he allowed Taiwan to separate from the PRC and be recognized by the international community as an independent sovereign state.
The Anti-Secession Law, adopted by Beijing in 2005, sets forth three conditions under which China would be justified in using “non-peaceful means and other necessary measures to protect China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity: 1) Taiwan independence forces cause Taiwan’s secession from China; 2) Major incidents entailing Taiwan’s secession from China occur; or 3) possibilities for peaceful reunification are completely exhausted.
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qqq3,
China is over 90% Han and the Han people believe in a common ancestor and share a common literature. We may not be able to understand each other‘s spoken language, but we share the same literature whether it is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Confucian classics. This is unique to Chinese civilisation. No other country can be like China in this regard.
The CCP has to take as reality the nature of Chinese society which is deeply rooted in its own history and tradition. The CCP cannot operate in Western society or Russian society. It operates in the reality of Chinese society. So as Mao Zedong said very early on: in the end, practice leads theory. You begin with reality, seeking truth from facts. The CCP is capable of leading the Chinese people but it is certainly not capable of leading other people. By the way CCP do not wish nor has any obligation to lead other people so please mind you own business.