Skavau

I don’t at all like, nor agree with the current USA administration rhetoric or potential plans towards Venezuela - but that doesn’t have any relevance whatsoever to Chinese aggression and antagonism towards Taiwan, nor the fact that the Taiwanese - from their perspective - have way more to fear from China than the USA.

Two things can be bad.

China is a nuclear power. With a much larger population than the USA. What exactly do you imagine the hypothetical war-goals would be here?

You think the USA is going to start an aggressive boots-on-ground assault on China?

The majority in Taiwan have always preferred status quo. That’s what happens when you border a much larger neighbour that would see any overt move to officially declare independence (as in rebrand as Taiwan officially) as justification to invade.

That’s just the Taiwanese being self-aware to notice large power disparities and not wanting to rock the boat. Actual unification support with China polls about in the 10-15%. Lower than the “move to independence” bloc.

Not sure how threatening forceful unification every few months comes under “being nice”.

I live in the UK. Being against the UK government is not considered a mental illness.

That’s not what they meant. You suggested that people who criticise the USSR automatically ignore human rights abuses from the USA (specifically - to black people). This is a baseless claim. How do you know that everyone who highlights USSR human rights abuses ignores USA human rights abuses?

When did the USA, in the last 50 years section people for dissent?