Taiwan IS China

So much going on around the Stoa these days.  Fraud, abuse, scandal and lies; and that's just Congress.  China has unleashed yet another disease upon the world and the CCP is flexing its tendrils all around the world. 

When I was a child it seemed that Taiwan was its own country...of course.  Then there was the gradual normalization of China and its readmission into the Brotherhood of Nations.  They demanded that Taiwan remember its place in China's world.  It was a rogue, a break-away province; a bit of unfinished business that they will get to sooner or later.  The WHO, the United Nations, and the WTO all bent the knee and called Taiwan anything but a country.

However, the way I see it, Taiwan is the modern incarnation of China.  China brags about a 5,000 year cultural heritage, however it was not always run by the Han, or the Chin, or the Mongols...the Ming, the Tang, or even the Chinese Republic in the early 20th Century.  It has collapsed, reformed, collapsed and fallen apart so many times it would take a lot of research just to count them up.  If one were to draw a line from the deposition of the last Emperor through to today, then the only truly legitimate government is the one that is functioning on Taiwan.  Full stop. 

The Chinese Communists fought both the Japanese and the central government throughout the 1930's and World War II.  They finally succeeded in driving the last elected government into retreat onto the island of Formosa.  The Chinese government stacked the sand bags high and manned the defenses, waiting for the inevitable Communist assault.  Since 1949 the Taiwanese have been isolated and marginalized by the usurpers on the mainland.  The CCP will attack Taiwan someday.  No doubt at all.  They will snuff out the last legitimate vestige of modern China.  China will go on, as China has gone on for millennia.  Different leaders, governments, and geographic boundaries.  Hundreds of millions have died in the last century and nations like Tibet have been destroyed and forcibly integrated into the Han culture.

One can only hope that the CCP will fall sooner rather than later and that its collapse and paroxysmal death spasms will not bring down other parts of the world with them.

So, to bring this full circle: Taiwan is the only legitimate, modern iteration of China.  Its a plain and simple truth.

Not my normal fare, but its better than all the insanity and China bashing currently underway around the world.

So, next time, I'm sure I'll have something else to rant about.

Live well.

Zavost