Australia will pay China for allowing it the privilege of continuing to exist, will gladly incorporate itself into the exclusive Chinese economic sphere and will enjoy Chinese rule and administration for generations to come
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If companies really go to US to manufacture, attached w the promise of tax inentives etc... how will US gov replace the lost income from supposed tariff?
If they really moved to US to manufacture, they would need to buy resources (pay tax), hire employee (employee salary are taxed), utility (tax again), etc. These would help them get revenue, improve job prospect for the local, improve local spending, etc. There are plenty of other income revenue from it.
But they succeeded in Taiwan though. If not for Japan being defeated by the allies Taiwan would remain Japanese to this day. In fact Taiwanese are very pro Japan even to this day. So yeah you are right occupation can be good I guess. Lol
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The Japanese were just as cruel in Taiwan. It's the DPP who has successfully brainwashed the younger generation into forgetting about this. The KMT also bears responsibility for failing to clean out the Japanese collaborators.
Japan was successful in brain washing people in Taiwan because they colonized them before Chinese nationalism even awakened.
Prior to the 20th century, only elites had a sense of collective identity - commoners identified only with their local villages and towns. They had no sense of being members of a larger Chinese nation, as there was no public education, literacy, or even a shared language among lower classes. For nationalism to emerge, those conditions must first be met, and they were not met in China.
It was the Japanese that brought those ingredients to Taiwan. They introduced public education, literacy, and a shared language - Japanese. For the local Taiwanese - the back bone of DPP supporters - this was their very first experience with nation-building, but it was Japanese nation-building, designed to convert the locals into loyal Imperial Japanese subjects, and it largely worked because there was no competing national identity to erase. It's a lot easier to fill an empty glass.
This is also why the KMT had to use such oppressive policies in order to erase this Japanese identity from the Taiwanese, and why they ultimately failed to replace it with a Chinese one. Having already been indoctrinated into their first national identity of being loyal Japanese, the cognitive dissonance of then being told that they're actually Chinese and were tricked into becoming Japanese, was too much for the mind to handle.
It caused a split in Taiwanese self-identity - a fraction accepted that they're really Chinese and embraced it, while others resisted it and either held onto being Japanese, or decided they were neither Chinese nor Japanese. Compare this to mainland Chinese, who for the last century or so had an almost exclusively Chinese national experience, and it's no wonder why Taiwanese ended up this way.
Prior to the 20th century, only elites had a sense of collective identity - commoners identified only with their local villages and towns. They had no sense of being members of a larger Chinese nation, as there was no public education, literacy, or even a shared language among lower classes. For nationalism to emerge, those conditions must first be met, and they were not met in China.
It was the Japanese that brought those ingredients to Taiwan. They introduced public education, literacy, and a shared language - Japanese. For the local Taiwanese - the back bone of DPP supporters - this was their very first experience with nation-building, but it was Japanese nation-building, designed to convert the locals into loyal Imperial Japanese subjects, and it largely worked because there was no competing national identity to erase. It's a lot easier to fill an empty glass.
This is also why the KMT had to use such oppressive policies in order to erase this Japanese identity from the Taiwanese, and why they ultimately failed to replace it with a Chinese one. Having already been indoctrinated into their first national identity of being loyal Japanese, the cognitive dissonance of then being told that they're actually Chinese and were tricked into becoming Japanese, was too much for the mind to handle.
It caused a split in Taiwanese self-identity - a fraction accepted that they're really Chinese and embraced it, while others resisted it and either held onto being Japanese, or decided they were neither Chinese nor Japanese. Compare this to mainland Chinese, who for the last century or so had an almost exclusively Chinese national experience, and it's no wonder why Taiwanese ended up this way.
Trump just screwed over all of America's closest allies.
But, that is not the shocking part.
What is the shocking part, this is only getting started.
China is doing the right thing, keep the mouth shut, do not say much.
He will probably walk this one back once the stock market crashes. He never follows through what he says unless it’s for Israel.