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[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 2 years ago (122 children)

How can a country intrude into its own territory? These separatists need to be put in their places.

[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (90 children)

So let me get this straight, a group of people overwhelmingly wish to separate, and the government tries to prevent them from doing that, and you don't think that's imperialism? I bet you don't feel the same about separatism in Catalonia, Donbas, Kurdistan, or the Zapatistas. Classic tankie logic: imperialism good when done by purported "communists."

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (7 children)

do you know the history of how the KMT became the ROC or are you asking loaded questions without any knowledge of the history?

[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

settler-colonists remain settler-colonists. also if NATO support vanished overnight, reunification would be inevitable.

[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You do realize Xinjiang was started as a colony right?

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what does that have to do with the price of butter?

[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

China is a setter-colonist state...

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

those words, you use them, but I don't think you know what they mean

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