• xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    This is a bit misleading, though, Taiwan doesn’t want to be recognised as a nation, it wants to be recognised as the one legitimate government of China.

    Palestine just wants a seat at the table.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      3 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.