• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        No, but if it weren’t for Western provocations that would never have been on the table. What do you think giving weapons to Taiwan does? China will not tolerate an arms buildup in Taiwain, it will attack as a result. That’s not good and I don’t support it, but that’s the material reality that you refuse to accept.

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          If the Taiwanese state would never capitulate and reintegrate peacefully with the CCP state, which is their claim, then wouldn’t that make an invasion of Taiwan inevitable, regardless of weapons?

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              Assume that it wouldn’t, though - I could just as easily say “with the right incentives, the United States could elect a communist president and transition to a people’s republic”, so let’s take them at their word that never means never and go from there, shall we?

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                Okay, then China could peacefully try and fail for a million billion years. That still doesn’t actually necessitate invasion.

                But also that assumption is kinda nonsense so I think it can be safely discarded. Forever is a long time.

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                  You’re not engaging with my argument because you know fine well what the outcome would be. I think we’re done here.

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                    I definitely answered your hypothetical? If the Taiwanese state would never capitulate and reintegrate peacefully with the rest of China, then China could peacefully try and fail to reintegrate for a million billion years. That’s it. Nothing else has to happen.

                    I think your argument is dumb, but that definitely addresses it.