Claiming a territory against the will of its people is exactly what imperialism is.
It is nothing less than colonisation.
You mean like when the KMT fled to Taiwan, brutalized the natives, and colonized it, imposing four decades of martial law?
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I bet you don’t feel the same about separatism in Catalonia, Donbas, Kurdistan, or the Zapatistas.
Literally none of those are imperialism. Imperialism isn’t having a region want independence. Do you think Scotland not being allowed to have a vote is imperialism?
I’ve heard those evil RuZZians breath oxygen!