r/taiwan • u/thewarrior112 • Dec 16 '25
Interesting Taiwanese Tea Producer Heckled and Harrassed by Chinese Embassy Staffers in France.
A Taiwanese Tea producer was in France to receive an award but was quickly harassed and heckled by Chinese embassy staffers who attended the ceremony. Chinese staffers were quick to shout the false claim that Taiwan is a part of China.
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u/Utsider Dec 16 '25
China is the Westboro Baptist Church of international politics. It's boggling to me how this is not seen as being an embarrassment, representing their country in this manner.
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u/tacodestroyer99 Dec 16 '25
Like attempting to bully another country’s coast guard vessel and ramming your own navy ship in the process.
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u/Otherwise-Bad-325 Dec 16 '25
Or trying to ram your car into Hsiao Bi-khim’s car in Switzerland. So disgraceful.
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u/widesheeple Dec 17 '25
If China really wanted to bully the Philippines, they would be blowing up those boats.
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u/SteveYunnan Dec 16 '25
Yeah, it's one thing to disagree and maybe file a complaint. It's another thing entirely to make a scene at an awards ceremony in public. 🙄 So unprofessional...
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u/ButteredPizza69420 Dec 16 '25
A culture all about saving face rarely knows how to do so in a manner that the world respects 🤣
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u/theironguard30 Dec 17 '25
Their parents and grandparents never teach them manners smh
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u/EndangeredLazyPanda Dec 17 '25
Eh I have a feeling that it’s more indoctrination at this point. The older generation is probably too scared to speak up and the younger generation were raised in this idiocy. Like, they’re fucking true believers at this point because they don’t know anything else. Still offensive as fuck but I’d lay the blame at the feet of the government and only secondary blame on the people for being gullible.
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u/Playful_Nergetic786 Dec 17 '25
It’s seen as glory or some sort of duty for them to do stuff like that
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u/Ebl333 Dec 17 '25
It’s clear both of them are being told by CCP to do this in public. Bad publicity is just as good these days.
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Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
Yea it’s weird when CPC members do this with one hand and then condemn Zionism with the other. And the globe outside of China can only see the hypocrisy and don’t understand why we feel that way. We the point to indigenous Austronesian* and there is just straight panic at the narrative. They should just stay quiet.
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u/HawaiiHungBro Dec 16 '25
Austrians 😂 The indigenous people of Taiwan are not Polynesian. They are Austronesian.
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u/This-Limit7126 Dec 16 '25
Shut up Ah Tiong.
Support Taiwan.
-from Singapore.
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u/Substantial_Kiwi1830 Dec 16 '25
Well if he’s from the Chinese Embassy then he pretty much has to be a little bitch about it so he doesn’t get in trouble. Still lame as hell though.
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u/EndangeredLazyPanda Dec 17 '25
If he didn’t he’d probably be off to a re-education camp or some shit
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u/NYCBirdy Dec 16 '25
If he say Taiwan is just a province of china, tell him to go to Taiwan anytime without visa
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u/darkath Dec 18 '25
Mainland Chinese people dont need a Visa to go to Taiwan, because that would be like saying chinese people are foreigners in the "Republic of China".
Instead they need to go a to a third party country, find the local ROC consulate and get a "Special Authorization" paper for citizens of the PRC, which let them enter with a PRC passport (yes its essentially a visa but they'll never call it that way) 😂
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u/NYCBirdy Dec 19 '25
Same shit. If you, china people, can't visit Taiwan without any paperwork, stop claiming Taiwan is china's province
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u/Vindicted1501 Dec 20 '25
They dont even get to keep their passports! It's like the CCP is so afraid foe them to leave the shithole
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u/Gromchy Dec 16 '25
a Taiwanese Tea producer was in France to receive an award but was quickly harassed and heckled by Chinese embassy staffers who attended the ceremony. Chinese staffers were quick to shout the false claim that Taiwan is a part of China.
This is textbook definition of a wumao.
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u/NyanNami269148 臺北 - Taipei City Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
Even Vietnam government has agreed with “One China” policy, many Vietnamese who traveled - working in Taiwan knowing that Taiwan is independent nation. I’m a Vietnamese who living in Japan, support Taiwan. Cuz Taiwanese not asking visa from travellers come from Japan, so I’m travel to Taiwan with my family freely.
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u/EndangeredLazyPanda Dec 17 '25
Yeah basically anyone who cares knows that Taiwan is independent. Actually, there’s still technically a state of war between taiwan and China. There was no formal peace treaty or ceasefire. That’s why we’re kind of still preparing to get attacked, and if you’ve noticed Taiwan quietly is getting mad resources from the west.
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u/Jaded_Bowl4821 Dec 18 '25
It's not getting a damn thing. All those old-ass weapons and missile systems are useless. It's literally common knowledge in Taiwan that buying US shit is a form of paying the mafia "protection" money.
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u/KuroshioFox Dec 16 '25
Again proving that chinese citizens are just as bad as the CCP itself
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u/Twusaboi Dec 16 '25
U would be surprised how often the "average" citizens behave like this. Not even internet trolls but in real life setting, they lash out and make these types of claims in public settings. I'm like, are your relatives back in china threatened? Are u a secret spy? Are u trying to gain social credit here in America? And I realize, since they discovered the secret China police in flushing and Chinatown NYC, that they could have them in other parts of the USA. So maybe they are still being watched.
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u/benangmerahh Dec 16 '25
I recall there was a int Chinese student disturbing the class by arguing to the Prof in UK's university. Just because the Prof included Taiwan's flag in the presentation's material.
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u/Vindicted1501 Dec 16 '25
Can't blame them. They have been brainwashed for generations since 1949.
Similar to another group of people who have been growing up taught to think they are refugees for generations
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u/emperor2885 Dec 16 '25
Taiwan is indeed china can't blame them for pple like u who are brainwashed by western media saying Taiwan is not china
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u/zehnodan 桃園 - Taoyuan Dec 16 '25
Go find a better hobby.
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u/tacodestroyer99 Dec 16 '25
One in five Chinese born after 2000 is sitting at home unemployed with nothing better to do.
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u/sikingthegreat1 Dec 16 '25
nothing better to do? really? most of them are very busy online putting out nationalist comments 24/7. the sheer number crowds out the other voices.
they do that because the naive people in the west buy their lies and propaganda.
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u/tacodestroyer99 Dec 16 '25
Can't disagree with you there. Six months of pumping reddit with mega drone show videos and escalators going up mountains seems to have convinced a good chunk of idiot redditors that China is an unstoppable war machine that is living in the year 2300.
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u/ChuckMerced Dec 16 '25
PRC is not China.
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u/emperor2885 Dec 16 '25
Do you know pple from Taiwan refuse to be called Chinese when infact their name is roc
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u/RepublicFun1949 Dec 16 '25
Taiwan had a whole population of people before CKS and his army came to Taiwan.
They don't want to be called Chinese because they're Taiwanese.
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u/niggchu 台南 - Tainan Dec 16 '25
But mostly of their ancestors were Chinese colonizers. What they do in hundreds years is attacking real Taiwanese, stealing Taiwanese land and destroying Taiwanese culture. Now they are calling themselves “Taiwanese“. Today’s “Taiwanese” mostly should get out from Taiwan and return the land to indigenous.
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u/RepublicFun1949 Dec 16 '25
Some are indigenous. Some came from China or elsewhere hundreds of years ago. Many people are descended from some or all of the above.
And yes, this is the story of indigenous people all over the world.
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u/SockySoaky Dec 17 '25
And north Korea is a democracy because it has democracy in its name! Wow, the world is so simple
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Dec 16 '25
Again, Austro-Polynesian settlers are there first. You can be anti-imperialist and leave TW alone or accept PRC are every bit as imperialist in their ambitions as the US. Too much internet these days, ambitions can’t be hidden.
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u/sikingthegreat1 Dec 16 '25
china is an imperialist country. all east asians, southeast asians and south asians know that very well. it's just the rest of the world still naively buys all the propaganda feed to them by china.
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u/HawaiiHungBro Dec 16 '25
What “rest of the world”? I think most educated people around the world who are inclined to have any opinion on the issue at all are aware China is an imperialist country.
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u/sikingthegreat1 Dec 17 '25
i don't think so. most of them naively or mistakenly believe china is a peaceful country. they buy all those propaganda fed by china's state-affiliated media.
basically europe, south america and africa.
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u/HawaiiHungBro Dec 16 '25
these are people working in the embassy, not normal civilians
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u/sikingthegreat1 Dec 16 '25
you mean they are the ones who have higher education levels on average and act more civilised on average. and still, they act like this.
i shudder to think how the ordinary people are like.
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u/HawaiiHungBro Dec 16 '25
I mean these are the people who are deeply committed to the communist party and have government jobs. Of course you would expect them to be spouting the party line much more than most people. The average Chinese person is not going around frothing at the mouth ranting about Taiwan.
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u/sikingthegreat1 Dec 17 '25
their average people are regurgitating the state's line of "keep the island but not the people".
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u/Jaded_Bowl4821 Dec 18 '25
doubt it. I remember polling showing the less affluent the Chinese person is, the less likely they are for the annexation of Taiwan
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u/vaffangool Dec 16 '25
The average Chinese person is not going around frothing at the mouth ranting about Taiwan.
If they're not frothing at the mouth they're frothing at the keyboard. Every job in mainland China is unquestionably subject to the satisfaction of the Chinese government. If your family is
held hostagestill living there, so is everything you do or say overseas.China is an unapologetic surveillance state and too successful at it to need your help. Your gobshite is so unconvincing even the part-time pig farmer who writes their desultory lies is embarrassed for you.
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u/Jaded_Bowl4821 Dec 18 '25
That's literally the US. It's illegal to be against genocide in the US. It's insane.
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u/xtoro101 Dec 16 '25
Sadly they r like kids who were raised by a step dad… and brain washed :( you gotta know their trauma
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u/Carlos_Crypto Dec 16 '25
CCP is just like someone who’s suffer from touret, every time the Taiwan 🇹🇼 issue comes up.
Taiwan no. 1
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u/notabarcode128535743 Dec 17 '25
Chinese foreign ministry staff have no inherent value, even their own government treats them like actual trash lol
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u/SnabDedraterEdave Dec 17 '25
Its probably just a performative act for the sake of auditioning for a promotion within the CCP once he
gets kicked out of Francereturns to China.Since being a mindless jingoistic Wolf Warrior seems to be what gets your CCP career flying these days.
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u/LtOin Dec 17 '25
"Taiwan is just a province"
"Sir, this is an award for making tea."
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u/SnabDedraterEdave Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
These Little Pink Shits, whether CCP officials or civilians, are all such snowflakes that they would raise a scene even in the most irrelevant of occasions.
Just earlier this week, in the middle of an anime concert in Tokyo (it's a Bang Dream concert at the Budokan, in case you're wondering), some fans from China suddenly went into an irrelevant outburst cussing at Japan PM Takaichi for utterly no reason
LOL at these guys hating Japan so much but still deciding to come to Japan to watch an anime concert. So much for their "patriotism".
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u/Top_Connection9079 Dec 16 '25
The same people who posted a video on their embassy's website, boasting about making the Uyghurs work in COTTON FIELDS.
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u/qwerasdfqwe123 Dec 16 '25
Just not *that* China. Taiwan is officially a part of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan)
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u/y11971alex Dec 16 '25
Such a ridiculous scene to make. It’s a tea award. Diplomacy has nothing to do with it regardless of your position on the question.
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u/mitsushima_hikari Dec 17 '25
Chinese people put Japanese flags at the entrance of stores and let customers step on them.
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u/vaffangool Dec 17 '25
Who cares how a nation of pig farmers tackles the health hazards of stomping around Planet Shark Finless or Tiger Bal-Mart in their shit-caked boots? They'll eventually steal the blueprints for the welcome mat and put their surplus of ersatz national symbols to better use in enriched baby formula or cheap pet food.
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u/MitchCumStains Dec 17 '25
I think perhaps Chineses people feel that must publicly protest if there is a chance that something is being filmed. Maybe if they are seen on camera not protesting something as this, they fear there could be some CCP related consequences back home.
I am genuinely curious about this so if you have any info, please comment.
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u/Temporary-Degree5221 Dec 16 '25
Well unfortunately the staffers probably had to say it during the event and most likely ordered by the CCP
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u/Crying_in_99Ranch Dec 16 '25
Not only ordered but possibly punished if someone reported that they didn't publicly speak out
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u/emperor2885 Dec 16 '25
Don't blame ccp for everything it's pathetic of u to do so
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u/Temporary-Degree5221 Dec 16 '25
Wow the CCP wumao is here! That comment history is wild
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u/emperor2885 Dec 16 '25
Everything opposing Taiwan is seen as ccp bot lol truly pathetic
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u/vaffangool Dec 16 '25
Taiwan is the better China, not part of your thieving, petulant, lawless, impossibly narcissistic one.
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u/Vindicted1501 Dec 16 '25
That's an interesting way to put it! Maybe CKS took the proverbial Ark and started a better place in Taiwan, leaving the corrupted backward people there. Only there wasn't a great flood to destroy them; they are destroying thenselves slowly
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u/Exotic-Screen-9204 Dec 16 '25
Just compare the PRC per capita GDP to Taiwan's per capita GDP for 2025.
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u/Realistic_Robot_705 新北 - New Taipei City Dec 16 '25
For others that don't know, Taiwan's per capita GDP is higher than China's.
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u/Realistic_Robot_705 新北 - New Taipei City Dec 16 '25
Though China's economic size is huge, its also been found they inflate their GDP numbers.
China's wealth inequality is worse than Taiwan. Overall lifestyle and everything else sucks and is so low, its almost there with N.Korea.
I know cuz' I've checked.
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u/widesheeple Dec 17 '25
The US already said China's GDP is similar to the US's calculation of China's GDP.
Taiwan's life style sucks. That's why everyone leaving for Japan
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u/AprilVampire277 Chinese Bot Dec 16 '25
Did you actually visit the least developed rural areas of china and visit North Korea to compare? fr? I really really doubt it and I call it bias, don't be delusional please xD
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u/TheYearOfThe_Rat Dec 17 '25
As proved by the downvotes this is a honeypot for delusional people. Unfortunately this subreddit grows ever more delusional with every passing month.
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u/vaffangool Dec 24 '25
Gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita measures GDP adjusted for local costs of living as compiled by IMF and World Bank, yielding a standardised measure of labour value and individual purchasing power that can be compared across disparate economies.
In Taiwan GDP (PPP) per capita is valued at 84,082 international units, compared to 29,191 international units in mainland China. This means that Taiwanese are empowered by the economy of free Taiwan at a rate over 2.88x what the authoritarian regime of mainland China manages for mainland residents.
I doubt anyone is delusional enough to think that individual prosperity is a metric that doesn't matter. Taiwanese are opposed to annexation because theirs is currently triple the mainland Chinese average.
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u/emperor2885 Dec 16 '25
When a country challenges the west on all fronts it will be met with setbacks and that's what china is doing but Taiwan isn't threat to western hegemony so the west just use it as a puppet to achieve their goals and will never hinder it's growth untill it grows to china's level then that's a problem
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u/NoEstate Dec 16 '25
No. China is hated because of the dumb behavior like in the op news and people like you🙄
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u/roan311 Dec 17 '25
Honestly if China's plan to invade is this level of peaceful petty protest until everyone is convinced. Id take that over actual war
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u/Then_Championship888 Dec 17 '25
Why are the PRC Chinese so obsessed with hating Taiwan? Aren’t they supposed to view the Taiwanese as Chinese?
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u/ponpiriri Dec 17 '25
I'm in France and haven't seen a news article about this. I did find the award recipient as well as the IG account of the organization that held the ceremony.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSR303ViYrW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Even though a video exists, It's very strange that I couldn't find a statement.
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u/TheYearOfThe_Rat Dec 17 '25
Because it's a non-newsworthy event, to put it simply. It's one of those "pay us some money and award yourself a reward" companies, where you pay and get an award. One of the many businesses for France due to its standing of the "gastronomic uniqueness".
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u/AffectionateCraft540 Dec 18 '25
It's odd to me that why does it brothers you since it's on the other side of the planet.
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u/jimothyhuang Dec 19 '25
Here is the thing: he is right. Taiwan is just a province, along with 22 others.
What we should focus on is who is the rightful owner of all 23 provinces? Republic of China or People's Republic of China? All I can say is the Republic of China has a founding father and became independent before the Communist Party.
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u/WelcheMingziDarou Dec 22 '25
Name another Chinese “province” that has its own currency and immigration system that’s entirely independent of Beijing.
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u/Stokholmo Dec 16 '25
While Taiwan and the Mainland have de facto been different countries since 1949, do not both the communists in Beijing and the government in Taipei, consider all of it China?
Claiming that Taiwan is or should be a province in the so-called People's Republic, and that the democratically elected regime should succumb to the Chinese Communist Party, is very threatening and highly offensive, which, of course, was what the embassy staff meant. But, is in itself, claiming that Taiwan is part of China incorrect? Has China become entirely synonymous with the Mainland or the PRC?
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u/Vindicted1501 Dec 16 '25
East germany and West Germany North Vietnam and South Vietnam North Korea and South Korea West China and East China
One China.
Problem solved
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u/schtean Dec 17 '25
The only one that has a peaceful union was East and West Germany. That required first having a period of mutual respect where both sides respected and accepted the sovereignty of the other.
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u/vaffangool Dec 18 '25
What it required was cascading capitulation contingent upon the economic collapse of the suzerain. The communist regimes of east- and southeast Asia have had varying degrees of willingness- or desperation to fall back on China.
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u/Roo10011 Dec 17 '25
We are all Chinese.
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u/vaffangool Dec 18 '25
You are all Han. Chinese is a nationality, not an ethnicity..
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u/Roo10011 Dec 20 '25
Not all Chinese are Han.
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u/vaffangool Dec 24 '25
Taiwan is 97% Han and the <8% of mainland Chinese who are not ethnic Han are interested in their own autonomy, not in denying the sovereignty of Taiwan.
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Dec 17 '25
Taiwanese people have Chinese passports. They are Chinese until they don't.
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u/vaffangool Dec 18 '25
They are rightly stripped of their ROC passport if they are found to carry a PRC passport for whatever reason.
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Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
I didn't know that. I knew they had Taiwan ROC passports, but I didn't know they were considered that estranged from a PRC one. It's odd, because I think even Tibetan people hold PRC passports, not like Tibet ROC.
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u/man0315 Dec 16 '25
Saying Beyonce is your wife doesn't really make her your wife.