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@MonkeyFlorest35 @Civixplorer Lake Victoria

@Civixplorer There is fucking water on the middle África bro, is this real?

The first map of Korea, created during the Joseon dynasty in 1402.

@protect_taiwan Nothing more than a little scripted theatre every four years

🇹🇼 Taïwan : des élections tous les 4 ans. Pas un dirigeant à vie.

@GDemonolog75720 @dragonboxboy @Civixplorer WTF are you on about the Anglos (orig Angles or Anglii) were from modern day Germany.

@dark_impromptu @dragonboxboy @Civixplorer Taiwan is the home of all Austronesians. It's like telling Anglos to move out of the UK and go to New Zealand or Canada. If anything, they should move back to Taiwan and leave the islands for others.

Evolution of the ethnic composition of Taiwan 🇹🇼

@TheEconomist Stupid comparison as usual. China has things no other country has.

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@dragonboxboy @Civixplorer Austronesians have the Philippines, Indonesia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia... and yeah you get the idea

@Civixplorer Gonna need a homeland movement for Austronesians to return to the island.

@SteveYates Absolute BS - the civil war went on through to the 1970s and 1980s with both sides exchanging fire esp in places like Kinmen Island.

To be precise, the KMT-CCP civil war never involved Taiwan. The KMT took effective control over Taiwan from Japan as part of a finished war - WWII. Upon defeat in China proper, the KMT fled beyond the CCP’s reach as the civil war did finish with PRC establishment.

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@KarenFactsLover apparently 30 years in the hotels industry is a "quick buck"

I love how a white guy that has made a few quick bucks in China feels he's equipped to lecture Americans about what freedom means to Chinese people. Bill Maher is spot on about freedom. Opinion polls show that the overwhelming majority in the Chinese diapsora, the richer they are, the more inclined they are to move their money to the US or Singapore precisely because China is not free. The Chinese government can cease and desist your assets illegally at the drop of a dime.

@Linahuaa What does your company do?

I don't hire people from mid universities. I either hire people from top unis or people who dropped out of school, but used to be top 500 in Call of Duty. You can fix smart people's addictions or undiagnosed ADHD, but you can't fix mid. If you're Shanghainese and went to a university in Australia, it's the worst signal you can have. It means your parents are likely millionaires, spent a lot of money on you, likely tried to bribe someone, and yet, you still couldn't even get into the University of Toronto. Being mid is okay for mid companies. Being mid is worth zero or sometimes even less than zero for a top company that requires excellence from every cog in the system.

@DominicCardy Translation: new guys are paying a few more bucks

Good news. Another country recognizes China can't be trusted.

@TruthFairy131 @BecFreedom @craigkellyAFEE But Australia is literally on the other side of the planet to Europe. How do you reconcile that with your definition of Australianness.

@BecFreedom @craigkellyAFEE Well said, I respect anyone that has been loyal & brave enough to fight for our nation. This would earn them our gratitude, admiration & respect but still does not make them ethnically Australian if they do not have Anglo or European blood & roots in Australia.

For those critical of my support for Ronil and his comments about being Australian - I ask you to read the story of Winston Philip James Ide—and tell me whether he qualifies as an "Australian" in your eyes Winston Ide was born in 1914. His father, Hideichiro Ide, was a Japanese silk importer who was living in Australia. Winston Ide went to North Sydney Boys Technical High School, where he found rugby—and a dream: to play for the Wallabies. Between 1933 and 1935, he played at centre or five-eighth for Northern Suburbs, helping them lift the Sydney premiership in 1935. He earned five appearances for New South Wales across 1935 and 1936. However, he missed NSW selection in 1937, but he didn’t sulk—he went north to Queensland to chase the dream. After joining Brisbane’s Great Public Schools Old Boys club, his form spoke for him, and he was picked for Queensland. In 1938, the dream became real. Ide ran out for Australia against the mighty All Blacks, playing two Tests—one in Brisbane, a 20–14 loss, and one at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 13 August 1938, where the All Blacks edged it 14–6. Sportswriter Syd King saw what others saw: “Sturdily built, of medium height, he was not particularly fast, but had a nippiness and speed off the mark. Most of all he had great courage, and his low, hard tackling and fearless going down on the ball in the face of charging forwards won him many admirers.” His performances earned him selection for the Wallabies’ 1939–40 tour of Great Britain. The team arrived the day before the Second World War was declared. Not a single match was played. The greatest stage closed before he could step onto it. Arrive back in Australia, Ide was among the first to enlist, joining the Australian Imperial Force on 1 July 1940. Posted to the 2/10th Field Regiment of the 8th Division, he shipped to Malaya to face the rising sun of Japanese aggression. He fought at Mersing in southern Malaya. After weeks of bitter combat, Singapore fell in February 1942. Ide was captured and taken to Changi, one among some 45,000 Australian and British troops. In May 1942 he was sent north as part of a slave workforce to hack the Burma–Thailand Railway out of jungle and rock. Two years of disease, starvation, brutality—two years many did not outlast. Ide did. When the railway was done, the survivors were sent back to Singapore. From there, Ide and more than 1,300 prisoners were crammed aboard the Japanese hell ship Rakuyo Maru, bound for forced labour in Japan. On 12 September 1944, in the depths of the South China Sea torpedoes from the U.S. submarine Sealion struck—the Americans unaware the ships carried Allied POWs. It took twelve hours for the Rakuyo Maru to sink. The torpedoes spared the men; everything after did not. There were too few life jackets. The lifeboats were taken. Oil slicked the sea; fire ran across the water. The only choice was to jump into a burning ocean. In that chaos, Ide did what he had always done: he put others first. From the water, he waved away calls to climb onto a raft, choosing to stay with mates who couldn’t swim. A survivor remembered: “Those of us who escaped from the sinking Rakuyo Maru clambered onto rafts. I spotted Blow (Ide’s nickname) in the water and called for him to join us, as there was room for another. Blow shouted back that some of the boys near him were pretty badly hurt and he would stick by them.” His last words are said to have been: “No, mate. I’m staying here to help my mates. In any case, I can swim to Australia if I have to.” Soon after, he was gone—one of the 1,167 Australian and British prisoners who perished after the Rakuyo Maru went down. So tell me, then: what does it take to be Australian? Consider Winston Ide—Japanese heritage, Wallaby against the All Blacks, an early enlistment to defend this country, Changi survivor, two years on the Thai–Burma Railway, and, at the end, a man who refused safety to hold others up, with his last words; “No, mate. I’m staying here to help my mates. In any case, I can swim to Australia if I have to.” I would expect an embarrassed silence.

@ThePiperPie @reddit_lies The OBVIOUS answer is that the protestors became violent

@ThePiperPie @reddit_lies What courage? He was trying to stop the tanks from leaving the square. The real question is, why were tanks needed at all?

The soldiers killed other people that day you retarded communist.

@mdtlion @MrKRudd You realise KRudd's mandarin is actually subpar and basic? Guy is not an intellectual, no matter how much he tries to appear like one.

@MrKRudd Finally, the voice of reason on American resilience. Thank God a Mandarin-speaking Australian ex-PM is here to explain it to us. Truly the expert we needed. 🫶💀

Today I’m launching a Substack. I’ll use this space to share some reflections on the world and the future now unfolding before us. Read on: mrkrudd.substack.com

@Stephane_Erler @invalid_search1 Wtf are you talking about. The US supplies the ROC military.

@dark_impromptu @invalid_search1 Militarily, Taiwan is quite independent from the US. Vassalization is real in the economy and finance. The US can dictate who TSMC can't work with, where it must build new factories. And it also tells Taiwan to invest its USD foreign reserves in US Treasuries.

Yes, China is an amazing 5000-year civilization. But Taiwan was governed by "China" for only 212 years — that’s only 4% of the time! In other words, Taiwan has been governed by "China" for less time than Spain ruled the Philippines! Only the Manchu-Qing (a non-Han dynasty) governed part of Taiwan from 1683–1895 → 212 years. Then the KMT-ROC military dictatorship ruled from 1945–1987 → 42 years. The PRC has NEVER governed Taiwan. In 1996, Taiwan held its first direct presidential election and became a full democracy. From that point onward (and even since 1949), Taiwan has fully satisfied every objective criterion of the UN’s own Montevideo Convention for statehood: permanent population, defined territory, effective government, and capacity to enter into relations with other states. Today Taiwan is still separate AND independent from the PRC and is a thriving sovereign democracy exercising full control over its territory and people.

@cjsmall @TimothySandefur "dynamically active" "outward going" wtf do these words mean lmao

Agreed! I visited both China and Taiwan back in 2018 and the difference in the people was stark in it's contrast. The Taiwanese people were dynamically active, outward going, friendly and clearly happy, all in comparison to those in China. I will morn for Taiwan if China invades and I will denounce the political leaders in this country who facilitate this in any way. Trump claiming that Taiwan is a "very good negotiating chip" in dealing with an authoritarian communist regime is possibly the most appalling thing he has ever said -- which is really saying something.

If (strike that, in this administration, I should say when) we betray Taiwan to the communist Chinese it will be among the darkest and most disgraceful things this nation has ever done.

@invalid_search1 @Stephane_Erler Obviously cannot do that either since Japan is a US vassal.

@dark_impromptu @Stephane_Erler What about Taiwan partnering closer with Japan?

@invalid_search1 @Stephane_Erler If it were up to me, I'd be happy to have Taiwan be a separate, independent country. BUT they must also give up any military ties to the US and be actually independent, not just a vassal state.

Prior to 1945, Taiwan was never a part of the ROC. Taiwan was only a part of “China” ONCE—for about 200 years—when the Manchu-Qing acquired it by conquest and then lost it by conquest and treaty to Japan in 1895. The Manchu-Qing dynasty ended in 1911. The ROC was created in 1912 and never governed Taiwan. In 1945 the USA’s military General Order No.1 forced Japan to give “temporary administrative control” of Taiwan to the KMT-ROC. No legal treaty exists giving the ROC explicit legal ownership of Taiwan. However, Article 10 of the 1952 Treaty of Taipei comes close(!). Still most importantly, the ROC Constitution itself is not a legally binding international treaty on Taiwan’s sovereignty or ownership. It’s only a domestic document drafted in 1947 (when Taiwan was still Japanese territory !) that was imposed on Taiwan by the KMT-ROC military dictatorship until 1987. Taiwan then became a democracy in 1996 and the ROC then became only the name of its government. Now in 2026, if Taiwan further amends or replaces the ROC constitution, would that suffice?

@invalid_search1 @Stephane_Erler They literally were the same country, and then the US declared independence and they had a war to settle this. But Taiwan has not.

@Stephane_Erler America even uses English. It's England !

@invalid_search1 Really. What is more definitive than a Communique?

@dark_impromptu The Communiques mean nothing other than lip-service and other diplomatic and administrative kabuki.