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'The question, crucial to the moral basis for supporting Taiwan and the risk of conflict with the People's Republic of China, rightly concerns Filipinos.' Opinion ThoughtLeaders
From a historical perspective, undoubtedly, “yes.” In the context of legal, international law, arguably, “yes.” But bilateral, legal-diplomatic disputes and multilateral negotiations in the United Nations often depend on the relative power available to the contending parties. Can Taiwan, by itself, enforce its right to independence in a military confrontation against the People’s Republic of China ? Categorically, “no.
Losing the Pacific War to the Allies in turn, Japan had to return Taiwan to Kuomintang’s Republic of China of Chiang Kai-shek. With the victory of Mao Zedong’s PRC in China’s civil war, the remnants of Chiang’s forces fled to Formosa, where it initially ruled the indigenous Taiwanese, like as an occupying, ethnic Chinese colonial power.
Whether mystical or mythic, the abiding belief in a distinct national identity, unifying otherwise diverse groups of people, often draws sustenance and strength from the experience of the community’s actual and imagined shared suffering and sacrifice at the hands of an oppressive, foreign force – even when the individual victims may be strangers to each other.century, nationalism has proven more effective in forging unity than capitalist or communist ideologies.
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