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US approves potential $500m sale of military equipment to Taiwan (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] randint@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not like that. The ROC government did not "massacre everyone there." It did call itself the rightful government of the entire China for several decades, but it has since then moved on.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's constitution has not even been amended to not include Mongolia, let alone mainland China.

And the KMT did do a number on the indigenous Formosan population.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

To say nothing of the 40 years White Terror