Essay:Taiwan is Chinese (PRC)

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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-17 (last update: 2023-09-18)
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The government of Taiwan, entranced in some rapacious delusion of money, of capitalist grandeur, further distances itself from the masses who, now in the highest percentage yet, oppose independence.

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Contribution to Lain (%17)'s (disc: 17ain | tiktok: woozytime) Taiwan is Chinese [PRC] with the addition of sources, corrections, and further notes.

The government of Taiwan, entranced in some rapacious delusion of money, of capitalist grandeur, further distances itself from the masses who, now in the highest percentage yet, oppose independence. Some foreign individuals (even those supposed leftists) under a bourgeois illusion, pompously declare such things as Taiwanese “independence”, Taiwanese “freedom”, even Taiwanese “democracy”, throwing around confidently this bourgeois argot which contradicts the masses of Taiwan—as typical of these turgid know-it-all foreigners—, but has been flung to ad nauseam on so many occasions previous to tear apart socialism; one can only presume these individuals in the same mindset would have declared the “independence” and “freedom” of some Eastern European nations from the USSR—the “release from the Soviet yolk” to quote Parenti in Blackshirts and Reds. However, when these foreign fantasies shift from such to reality, when Taiwan does declare this “independence”, this “emancipation from its captor”, and inevitably faces the fate of Estonia’s post-socialist transformation for example, a nightmarish proletarian plight in contradiction of the masses’ want for what they had, these same foreigners who once hastily lifted fists for this “independence” now slam them down viciously with the most scathing criticism of their society.

The Taiwanese government, now directly funded tens of millions for military armament by the U.S. (mirroring the divide-and-conquer strategy through the strengthening of reactionary military sects for control as used by the U.S. in Brazil and Indonesia during the Cold War to topple popular movements), being recognized as a “non-NATO major ally”, can only be considered a pawn of the West, a donkey led by a green rectangular carrot. The mainland has leaped into near complete modern domestic semiconductor manufacturing capability with estimated full capability by 2025 (high tier 12 nm chips), this self-reliance allowing them to cut all chip purchases from the U.S., resulting in 60% of all global chip companies’ inability to export. The U.S., now, is attempting to import domestic semiconductor manufacturing, which companies targeted to collaborate such as Samsung have refused due to the majority of their profit being made in the PRC, and thus irreparable profit loss; capitalist powerhouse import reliance inescapably loses to socialist domestic self-sufficiency. Taiwan, lost in dollar salivation, is being played by the U.S. in the semiconductor game, with the U.S. exceedingly wanting more semiconductor manufacturing and exportation, U.S. and European bourgeoisie needing security of their semiconductor investments, and Taiwan slips into a Western/U.S. puppet; Taiwan doesn’t just lose its control, but it loses its semiconductor industry, as its superiority dies, and mainland dominance supersedes; without its semiconductor industry, Taiwan plummets into negative growth (like pre-2010).

Taiwan is an inseparable part of China; a part of China it is, this Taiwanese “independence” is merely a Western construct, a product of Western media and its bourgeois propaganda/ideals plaguing many uneducated masses—while at the same time these powers are duplicitously forced to officially accept Taiwan as a part of the PRC (~99.5% of the world population lives in countries that recognize Taiwan as part of China, adhering to the One China Policy)—, more susceptible due to Taiwan’s 20th century historical and, in turn, political situation. Western leftists act as if what independence movement there is exists as the fruit of determination, but ignore that this phenomena of Western/capitalist propaganda and media has resulted in this outcome repeatedly historically (particularly with regard to socialism); it is the entire point of it, but they cannot comprehend in the first place that not all independence is inherently progressive (nor all movement against independence inherently colonialist).

This Taiwanese “independence” bid is the present and most successful variation of Tibetan independence, both pushed by the West primarily, both linked back to and taught by the U.S. and its arms, and both supported by a minority of the country. Taiwan is not inseparable only because of its infiltration; Taiwan is historically a part of China, willingly so (something the Western bourgeoisie and even in suit the Western leftists will restlessly repudiate). State of Wu documents from 230 BC show friendly relations between China and Taiwan; the Han Dynasty, ~170 years later, traded with Taiwan extensively (Taiwan by 400 BC had begun its metal age) and played a large role in its development. The Song and Yuan dynasties beginning in ~960 set up administrative bodies to gain authority within Taiwan, at which point it was jointly governed. In 1624, Dutch colonists began a ruthless incursion within Taiwan seizing major control up until 1664 (by which point Taiwan was making up 26% of the Dutch East India Company’s profits), where Chinese General Cheng Zhenggong was the primary force of the purging out of these colonists (although they existed in some form until 1668), and was regarded as a “national hero.” Following this, more Chinese Taiwanese administrators were set up; in 1684, Taiwan became entirely administered by Fujan’s provincial governance, and in 1885, Taiwan was recognized as the 20th province of China. Colonialist Japan started war with China’s Qing Dynasty in 1894, and in 1895 the Qing Dynasty lost, with Taiwan becoming a colony of Japan.

Mao Zedong declared in 1937 that China’s goal was “a final victory in the war”, this victory desired to “secure the liberation of Taiwan”; China declared war on Japan in 1941. In 1943, China put forward the Cairo Declaration, in which the U.S. and U.K. (and the Soviet Union) recognized that Japan had “stolen Taiwan”, and agreed to ensure that it was liberated and returned to its former status. Japan surrendered in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the invasion by the Soviet Union, and agreed to the Potsdam Proclamation, in which the Cairo Declaration conditions were reaffirmed; Taiwan was legally documented as part of China. The PRC replaced the KMT (U.S.-backed reactionaries which killed over one million people during the “White Terror”, starting with a massacre in Shanghai)

in 1949, with civil war leading up to this, causing a political rift between mainland China and Taiwan, but

they never became separated.