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[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@vhhancock @michaelturton happy to drop a little nugget for u! i recommend checking out @formosa.forever on instagram for more fun little posts about taiwan! wish u the best on ur personal learning journey!!

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@vhhancock @michaelturton fun fact, the PRC’s claim over taiwan is fully based on the ROC’s claim over taiwan.

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@vhhancock @michaelturton nowadays the ROC regime is struggling diplomatically which led to a rebranding approach from the ROC to ROC(Taiwan) creating ambiguity and confusion when in reality, the ROC is still the chinese government est in 1912 that “colonized” the post war taiwan.

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@tylermilliken_ cheng 💔

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@denisewu essentially like it’s ironic pushing “taiwan is taiwan” while pushing “taiwan is the second chinese regime” at the same time

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@denisewu not taiwans flag! further builds up china’s “breakaway province” and “chinas domestic issue” rhetoric/framing. 🤦‍♂️

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@Diplomat_APAC tbf rightfully so. what’s considered “han” has deviated quite a bit from the “yellow river civilization” it was intended to encapsulate. essentially a politically meaningless umbrella term that doesn’t serve many people very well

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@voxdotcom taiwan and the ROC are two different political entities. although one acts as the governing authority on the other, they are not necessarily the same body. modern taiwanization of the roc is a product of tw “infiltration” in exiled china and a poor “rebranding”=sov movement in tw

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@ted_huang 🟩⬜️🌺⬜️🟩

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@michaelturton not sure if this was relevant at all had a long day and ended up ranting about some meaningful stuff to me lol 💀

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@michaelturton the “offshore islands” (kinmen matsu) historically (and legally) are chinese territories no? does the protection of taiwan have to come at the tradeoff of building up the exiled chinese gov too? isn’t it possible to handle both thorns in the way of taiwan prosperity?

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@VRCT25 shared culture isn’t shared political identity or sovereignty. Taiwanese identity isn’t so much “cultural” but very much a political one shaped by its history of colonial rule. language or ethnic overlap doesn’t create political entitlement as legitimacy td comes from self deter

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@VRCT25 i’m saying a broad ethnic identity doesn’t erase local political identity. the chinese uniting against the Qing doesn’t mean tw people under roc rule automatically see themselves part of a new Chinese nationalist project decades later after jpn colonial rule, 228, martial law etc

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@VRCT25 he didn’t fully “let power go” tho. political arrests and repression continued after martial law was lifted authoritarian policy and structure still kept intact. and again by that point, they were under intense pressure... no other realistic choice for his ROC to survive

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@VRCT25 i think we’re talking past each other a bit. i’m not saying they are indigenous formosan groups in the Austronesian sense. I’m saying that by the 20th century, Taiwan had already developed a distinct local political and cultural identity composed of multiple groups

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@VRCT25 colonialism isn’t purely about ethnicity. political domination, imposed sovereignty, and suppression of local identity/self-determination all part of it. u can def have intra-ethnic colonialism. side convo, “han” is such a umbrella that it starts becoming politically meaningless

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@VRCT25 willingly? 😭 dawg they did ts as a last resort to keep the ROC in power lol. modern tw was fought for bro, with roc losing both int and domestic legitimacy all they could do was give up power 😭

[lawrence @lawrence_ho13]

@VRCT25 and tbf i haven’t read the book, im basing all this off the initial tweet read. i recognize japanese colonization is NOT sunshine and rainbows but i also recognize the ROC is a colonizing power comparably “worse” + still actively impacting tw’s potential today