Xi Jinping says no one can stop China’s ‘reunification’ with Taiwan
Xi Jinping says no one can stop China’s ‘reunification’ with Taiwan
Taiwanese president Lai Ching Te says he hopes to have healthy and orderly exchanges with Beijing
Summary
Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated in his New Year’s speech that Taiwan’s “reunification” with China is inevitable.
China has escalated military activity around Taiwan, including frequent incursions near the island and sanctions on U.S.-linked companies over arms sales to Taipei.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te rejected Beijing's claims, stating Taiwan’s future can only be decided by its people.
Lai also criticized China’s restrictions on travel and education exchanges with Taiwan, calling for dignified, reciprocal relations based on goodwill and equality.
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How did this work out for Hong Kong?
The difference being several, one hong Kong is inside of China with its territorial boundaries being only legal and social. Two hong kong actually believed the laws and structure they put in place would hold while Taiwan is under no such illusion
The actual difference is most of Hong Kong was only leased by Britain for 99 years in 1898 and was returned on schedule in 1997.
except they gave it back to the wrong china.
prc didn't exist back then.
roc is the successor state to the one that made that deal with britain.
Unfortunately totally legal under international law with the United Nations blessing...
In 1972, China successfully petitioned the United Nations to remove Hong Kong from its list of non-self-governing territories, and declared that the colony was a "Chinese territory under British administration". The United Kingdom did not raise any objections to this and the local population did not think the move was significant, but the implication of this change was that Communist China alone would determine the territory's future, excluding the people of Hong Kong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
The UN is a corrupt authority. Especially when it comes to the UNSC. 2 of its 5 permanent members legal entities ceased to exist and fundamentally different successor states assumed their place.
The case is far more aggregious with the USSR and Russia. Ukraine tried to sue in 2022 arguing russia wasn't legally entitled to just assume the USSRs position as far as the security council was concerned. "Technically Kazakhstan was the last state of the Soviet union. Etc". But ultimately. As expected. "Realists" didn't want to hear the argument. And it went nowhere