1. Taiwanese liberals cry about how the CPC wants to "invade Taiwan," but forget that both the PRC and "ROC" constitutions are One China constitutions. Until you overthrow the "ROC" regime, cross-strait issues remain domestic issues, and any potential fighting that occurs
2. would be considered, by international law, Beijing, and Taipei (at least formally, I know the DPP would like to interpret it as an international conflict), to be part of a Civil War.
3. International law recognizes the PRC to have succeeded the ROC in 1949, and hence the government that calls itself the "ROC" today, according to international law, is just the governing body of a renegade province of the PRC.
4. Since the so-called "ROC" is the governing body in Taiwan, however, "ROC" laws apply to the province, and just like how the PRC considers Taiwan to be a renegade province, the "ROC" considers the mainland to be territories under CPC occupation.
5. Though the DPP and separatists disagree with this line and would like to see the two sides as separate countries, the DPP is still in power through "ROC" institutions.
6. And seeing that this is a domestic conflict, why don't you stop crying about the PLA making incursions into your "air space," when, under your constitution, you have the right to make incursions into the mainland area? Oh yeah, because you know you'll get bodied.
7. Politics has always been a power struggle - it's not about people getting along. If the thought of such a scenario is scary to you, then you should condemn the Tsai regime for playing with fire while risking the lives of the Taiwanese people.
8. Moreover, we're all Chinese. Why should we view our mainland compatriots as the enemy simply because the reactionary regime that rules over us is now telling us to? As bad as the Chiangs were, at least they taught us to view mainlanders as our brothers and sisters.
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