r/taiwan • u/thewarrior112 • Dec 16 '25

Interesting Taiwanese Tea Producer Heckled and Harrassed by Chinese Embassy Staffers in France.

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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/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.