There are so few Taiwanese that they will barely register.
Remember that there are a lot more ethnic minorities in mainland China, and they also receive affirmative action type policies.
Lessons for China to learn from Ukraine conflict for Taiwan scenario
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There are so few Taiwanese that they will barely register.
Remember that there are a lot more ethnic minorities in mainland China, and they also receive affirmative action type policies.
solarz
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From my interactions with normal Chinese people.
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solarz
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Definitely, I don't expect Taiwan to put up much resistance. China is also going to avoid bloodshed as long and as much as possible. This we agree on 100%.
What I'm saying though, is if ever circumstances called for it, and I hope this will never happen, China has a bottom line for Taiwan.
lcloo
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I actually hope than the unification of Taiwan would be like the second Chinese Civil war. Quick and decisive without destruction of cities and population centres. None of the major Chinese cities got destroyed during the 1947-1950 war despite more than 2 millions KIA. (10 millions deaths in 1st and 2nd Civil war)
There could be fierce fightings and huge combattant deaths in Taiwan scenario but civilians should be spared as in 1947-1950. The key is to choose battle ground. Mao's strategy can still be applied today as in 70 years ago. Chinese Red Army win not because of their fire power but the support of people on both side of the front lines.
There could be fierce fightings and huge combattant deaths in Taiwan scenario but civilians should be spared as in 1947-1950. The key is to choose battle ground. Mao's strategy can still be applied today as in 70 years ago. Chinese Red Army win not because of their fire power but the support of people on both side of the front lines.
Nope, Russia has been below China in military strength for many years now (and one could actually gleam some of their fault prior this invasion, hm thinking back might even be decades).
You are underestimating the current resentments for outdated preferential ethnic policies in PRC as well. Higher education in mainland is a scarce resource, competition is so fierce that many parents send their children to tutoring after school in order to gain any slightest advantage. The situation got so bad that CCP decided to crack down on the tutoring industry.
It's also an open secret that children of most han-ethnic marriages would choose ethnic minority as their ethnicity for its benefits. Human nature dictates people by large would maximize their gains with minimum effort. Rational ones would always try to take the easy route.
Bonus mark for ethnic minority caused open protests in mainland. It's a very divisive issue especially among the lower classes (CCP core supporters) since most of them don't have the resources for foreign education outside of public system. They are most impacted by the preferential ethnic policies.
TSCM is nothing without ASML.
Just go to weibo, there are currently plenty of Chinese mocking Shanghai's incompetency at dealing with the current covid outbreak, the liberal/bourgeoisie conduct of Shanghainese rushing to buy coffee, the supposedly more civilized Shanghainese elbowing each other for vegetables.
In times of large/total war situations when volunteering force is no longer enough, HKers should be drafted just like the mainland Chinese. Hence, their details must already be in the system.
There still is a chain of command. Smaller provinces remit tax collected from their jurisdictions to the central government. Central government then makes transfer payments to provinces for meeting their budgetary shortfalls. When I was in college, I didn't make enough to pay income tax. But I still filed tax returns.
Mainland has spared no expense trying to strengthen bonds with HK since 1997 return. 2019 protest showed at least to regular Chinese that all that pampering meant nothing.
Let's just agree to disagree.
It would be a mistake to underestimate the amplifying capability of social media even in a tightly controlled setting as in mainland. When living standards rise, people's expectations also rise accordingly. In the 90s, there wouldn't be much public outcry over Xuzhou chained woman/human trafficking incident as it was relatively common in rural areas. People at large might understand. But time has changed, the public outrage and embarrassment got so bad that even premier Li had to make statements vowing to crackdown on human trafficking.
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