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Democracy is not an ornament to be put on display, but an instrument for addressing the issues that concern the people. Whether a country is democratic or not depends on whether its people are truly the masters of the country. It depends on whether the people have the right to vote, and more importantly, the right to participate; what promises they are given during elections, and more importantly, how many of these promises are delivered after elections; what kind of political procedures and rules are set through state systems and laws, and more importantly, whether these systems and laws are truly enforced; and whether the rules and procedures for the exercise of power are democratic, and more importantly, whether the exercise of power is genuinely subject to public oversight and checks. If the people are only engaged with to solicit votes and then are left in the dark, if they must listen to grandiose election slogans but have no voice when the elections are over, or if they are only treated well by candidates during elections and are ignored after, this is not true democracy.
Taiwan with a good take?
as shocked as you are
is this the more anti china party or the less ?
KMT appears to be pro unification now.
Are they really? I was under the impression they just want to keep the status quo
They have been at least since 2014. That’s when the original talks of reunification started between them and the mainland. The tentative deal was that they would retain autonomy and their own military, but would officially recognize being part of China. Taiwan would’ve had a representative in CPC on the mainland as well. That’s when the US started up the whole sunflower movement to put DPP in power. It looks like KMT has stayed fairly consistent in their position, and now that DPP is becoming massively unpopular, they might actually get back into power and finish the deal.
I suspect that the war in Ukraine played a big role in shaping public opinion in Taiwan as well. Incidentally, CBC was moaning just recently how young people aren’t really that anti-China, and would rather have peaceful reunification than turn Taiwan into Ukraine.
Wypipo whining that Taiwan residents won’t be good little puppets and sacrifice themselves for a pointless war against the mainland is a timeless cracker classic
KMT have always been the ‘one China’ party, they just wanted to be in charge of the unified state, whereas the DPP has traditionally been more ‘Taiwan is its own independent country separate from mainland PRC’ party
I think the modern KMT have a more pragmatic view of reunification than the DPP, in that they recognise that reunification will happen one way or another eventually and that a peaceful reunification where they co-operate with the CPC is more likely to them retaining at least some of their power afterwards, whereas many DPP and supporters are ‘if the west arms us we can hold out militarily just like Ukraine…’
DPP thinks their anti-China TV dramas and delulu movies where they fight off the mainland are real life. I vividly remember the one where they had a scene where the PLA navy gets scared and turns around against the backdrop of the sun rising… in the west
hmm
It’s the pro-status quo party. And there’s actually 3 parties in Taiwan now: the pro-status quo party the KMT, the pro separatist party the DPP, and newer foreign-policy-agnostic TPP that’s currently in coalition with the KMT against the DPP for partisan reasons.
interesting
