I hope for him nobody says "We recognize Britain and that Ireland is part of Britain" 🤣
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Pathetic. You’d think a country colonized by a foreign nation would be more sympathetic to their struggle for independence.
What? Neither side represents the indigenous population of Taiwan.
Taiwan is not colonized by the PRC.
Taiwan has never been colonized by a foreign nation, except by the ROC after the Chinese Civil War.
It was also colonised by Netherlands and Spain for few decades in XVII century and by Japan in 1895-1945.
He is not technically wrong, as the Taiwanese themselves haven't declared independence from China.
So they are not independent then. not even their staunchest ally (USA) recognizes their Independence, so I don't see where is the controversy with Irish PM's statement.
Was there a controversy?
Why is it even being posted here? Top comment seems to think it's controversial. Lemmy users are like redditors in political awareness.
Well, yes. Redditors and Lemmy users are the same people.
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Yes, but that stems more from the fact that the Republic of China (aka Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China both lay claims to be the real China.
You can't really declare independence from yourself.
Also the PRC would probably attack immediately if the ROC gave up their claim on being china.
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