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Taiwan must work together to protect its democracy and not become part of China, President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday, July 19, calling on members of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to oppose the “red terror” coming from Beijing.

Lai, who won election two years ago, and his ruling DPP, champion Taiwan’s separate identity from China, a position that frequently angers Beijing which views the island as an inviolable part of Chinese territory.

Speaking to the DPP’s annual convention, Lai said Taiwan must remain vigilant in times of peace, pointing to what he said was China’s “legal warfare”, such as its new ethnic unity law which gives Beijing the basis to take action against people outside its borders.

That has alarmed Taiwan, because it could give Beijing another legal basis to try and prosecute or arrest Taiwanese it views as separatists. China has rejected all criticism of the law. China’s legal system has no jurisdiction in Taiwan.

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    10 days ago

    Funny story, every nation is genocidal because it’s ingrained in human nature

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      10 days ago

      Werent there studies thst showed this to be wrong? I heard something about it being caused by propoganda so that people can gain something out of it. Turn the people against each other and they will never fight you, or something like that?

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        5 days ago

        I know you say most, but to point out one very, very big outlier: the PRC (Peoples republic of China, the communist insurrectionists that somehow became the primary leaders of the chinese mainland) against the Uyghur people in China, who are currently undergoing forced organ harvesting, forced castration, literally concentration camps, etc.

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            9 days ago

            Totally not my intention. I just think it’s important to keep in mind that every nation tries to rewrite history and hide their own skeletons.

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        5 days ago

        And the Europeans attempting to pretend they didnt in the very recent past, also. Except germany, they have actually acknowledged it.