• MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    The problem with that is that Bejing makes it very clear that declaring independence would lead to an invasion of Taiwan. So for a long time most Taiwanese rather did want to keep the current basically independent status quo. However support for unification was low since Taiwan became a democracy. Since the Hong Kong protests and the extraction bill polls for independence show a majority supporting it though.

    Also Palestine has a seat on the table, just no vote, as a observer of the UN without being a member.

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, I didn’t want to jump too deep into the specifics of the Taiwanese stance since it’s quite complex, just wanted to note the difference between the two.

      seat at the table

      Yeah probably not the best way of phasing this, my bad!