this is a call to action, not a complaint! the instinct behind the xi memes is noble but does little to expose the recent and significant harm that our overseas siblings endure. let’s channel our creativity in ways that positively break the mold, bringing awareness and empathy into the conversation.
Because, at its most fundamental, I think looking at the world in terms of the bigger fish is a disgusting worldview. We should just let the strong rule? In that case, let’s go USA! Go pull out those nukes and use 'em on anyone who dares challenge your supremacy!
No, I would much rather live in a world where people can decide for themselves what they want, and where everyone else will help them achieve that if a bigger fish comes along to try and stop them.
That is a selective narrative context that is not grounded in the full scope of reality and recent history. You’ve decided to make up a label of what is or is not a big and small fish. The ROC was once a very big fish and it lost badly. You are parroting propaganda perspective when you fail to look at the big picture of events and look at them in total. This view of Taiwan in isolation without the history and broader context is propaganda nonsense out of western countries.
The actual geopolitics of Taiwan is very much about US manipulation and denial of maritime access to China. It always has been. This is absolutely about bullying anyone that can challenge American supremacy. The whole logic behind TSMC was to make Taiwan valuable to venture capital in the USA so that the supremacy angle was not the only factor that kept the US attached to Taiwan. It was a brilliant move, but it is ending now. The end of the silicon age is now. We are reaching the Landauer Limit in around 5 years time when memory eraser is too power intensive to scale further. This changes the formula of value. In addition, China’s population peak against the cost to invade Taiwan is set to be optimal in 2030 after which invasion becomes much less feasible. This is what most independent analysts that I follow say. I don’t want to see any of this happen and I’m not taking sides. A realist perspective and open minded observation leads me here. I’m pretty skeptical of most sources and especially ones that focus on recent events to the exclusion of context and total history to spin some narrative or convenient propaganda to support the only bully with military bases around the world and surrounding China in this instance.