Notice how Taiwan being independent of China is often treated as an anomaly, a “complicated” issue that we must debate as if the irredentist claim may in fact be legitimate. Meanwhile, we instantly recognize that the United States threatening Cuba is gross and beyond the pale, even though Cuba was part of the United States for longer (4 years) than Taiwan has been part of the People’s Republic of China (0 years).

I’ve been banging this drum for a while. #Bluesky is a vanity project for people who miss the bloglike core of pre-Musk Twitter, when it was mostly a place for them to blast high-engagement text into the chronological feeds of their followers—not all that different from #RSS! https://www.content-lab.agency/2024/12/30/a-blogshaped-peg-in-a.html

Imagine if like the USA positioned an irredentist claim to the Philippines as the centerpiece of its foreign policy. That’s how far out China’s Taiwan policy is, but many people can’t see it because they’ve fallen for propaganda or are making some very racist assumptions.