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"wanted to get out of my philosophy class early so I raised my hand and said "Zhuang Zhou would believe Taiwan is a country" which resulted in a 45 minute flame war between the Chinese international students and everyone else"
"People outside certain minorities tend to support the government or be neutral about it. China isn't like other places you've visited authoritarian or not where you can assume people are up for bitching about the government. Everyone takes stuff like Taiwan very seriously."
"The political ramifications would be immediate. The global economy will collapse, and Americas place in the world would be permanently abjected. Iran would be able to exert their influence in the Middle East. China and Russia would be given license to do whatever they want with Taiwan and Ukraine --"
"He spent the 80s advising the US government to send weapons to the mujahideen, and advised me to visit Kiev in 2019 because 'you won't be able to go again for a while,' and he's currently advising me to visit Taiwan ASAP."
"Or is he too lazy/isolationist and they'll run the Ukraine proxy war script? I'd rather not live through early Ukraine brinkmanship except with Trump and whatever neocons in his defense cabinet in charge in that scenario."
"The solution to the literacy crisis. Japan has incredible book covers too but I don't have pics of those sadly"
"Teacher at my language school was all smiles through class, but she'd pull students aside after class. Asked me why I was performing badly, why was I even in Japan in the first place. Told another student he was a kiss-ass who only said what others wanted to hear. Told a Taiwanese student 'You're ba"
"Basically what happened to Russians after the invasion but with Chinese people instead. Panda Express is shut down, Yo-Yo Ma gets cancelled, Chesa Boudin is installed as Mayor of San Francisco, etc, etc."
"I predict that China, for all their talk, will never militarily invade Taiwan and instead just dominate it economically and using soft power until they're under their thumb via a puppet government"
"Recently returned from my second trip to Taiwan. Here I want to share with you my observations and hot takes. My frame of reference is mostly Europe and a tiny bit USA. Never been to any other east Asian country."
"I felt safe 100% of the time. Virtually zero drunks or dug addicts. No comparison with Berlin at all. I felt there was in general much more social cohesion. In Berlin I witnessed a brand new elevator being completely destroyed within a few months."
"The alleged video was part of a larger alleged leak of files from Taiwan, Republican operatives, and a Delaware computer repair shop."
"We chat, and it turns out he lives in Taiwan and has a hot wife from there who is also at the table. Since I'm taking Chinese classes we chat some more, and when his wife leaves the table he goes on a lurid rant about the sexual prowess of Taiwanese women and the premium they place on white men."
"I don't think Taiwan will conquer China. Perhaps the reverse will even happen. What I do think is that in some unforeseeable political intrigue, the KMT will end up in charge of China again before the century is out."
"Recently returned from my second trip to Taiwan. Here I want to share with you my observations and hot takes."
"it turns out he lives in Taiwan and has a hot wife from there who is also at the table. Since I'm taking Chinese classes we chat some more, and when his wife leaves the table he goes on a lurid rant about the sexual prowess of Taiwanese women"
"Our military is the strongest in the world but i'm not sure we have the resolve to stop China if for example they decided to take over Taiwan."