• As a mainland Chinese, I have come into contact with many Taiwan independence activists on facebook/twitter and in some games. They see the flag of the Republic of China as their own country’s flag and often make slanderous remarks about China. As you know, the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China are both China for short, so when I ask, “Aren’t you also China?” They would answer me, “We are Taiwan, you are China.” I asked, "Aren’t you guys the Republic of China? Your passports are called “Republic of China passports” but they can’t answer that. I don’t know what the flag of the Taiwan independence forces is, maybe you mean the flag of the Democratic Progressive Party. But in any case, most of the TDI forces use the ROC flag as their flag. This includes many of the so-called ROC supporters who are also de facto TDI forces and who share the TDI supporters’ refusal to reunify or even look at mainland China objectively, but instead share the TDI forces’ vilification of mainland China. Although they do not change the name of their country from the Republic of China to the Republic of Taiwan, the line they support essentially splits China from Taiwan.

    • Water Bowl Slime
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      62 years ago

      I was thinking of the green and white flag that has the island of Taiwan on it, though I think there are others too. Yeah, the Democratic Progressive Party uses a variant of it, I think.

      You probably already know this, but the narrative in the West is that everyone in Taiwan wants to completely cut ties with the mainland and become an independent country. As in, totally destroy any and all connections with the rest of China because they are forcing them to be communist or something.

      “Free Taiwan” is a big thing in the US and I’m certain that’s what Redditors were thinking about when drawing the flag. But the flag they chose isn’t explicitly secessionist like the black Hong Kong flag is.

    • @hewhomustnotbegamed
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      12 years ago

      Why do you use hiragana in your username? I would’ve expected that Chinese people use pinyin to denote pronunciation.