Gov everywhere are usually a millstone around peoples necks. Some governments even charge its citizens for water! Look at all the surveillance and tracking of the citizens in any western country. Cameras everywhere with facial recognition. Costs to use just about anything, as an eg i have 3 trailers, boat, a motorbike and two cars and i have to pay to register all of them even though i cannot use them all at once. One plate for the cars and bike and one for the trailer's would be much fairer but less money to extort from us citizens.
Chinas got a ways to go but they are getting there quickly. Great example for India and they will both pull each other along and with them they will help the 'stan' countries rise their standard of living.
In just two decades,
China has become the world’s largest outbound travel market, with some 145 million Chinese travellers¹ visiting other countries in 2017, spending $265 billion. That’s 19% of all global travel spend. Compare that to the second largest outbound market, the USA.
American travellers spend a mere $135 billion in comparison. It is clear how vastly important Chinese tourism is. The numbers are set to keep growing too, with estimates suggesting 400 million outbound trips by Chinese tourists in 2030.
-Mar 20, 2019
Ill support whatever Taiwan and China agree to do. We don't want the western world getting involved and creating a type of Korea. They both agree that there is only One China and that's a great start. There's talk of a Peace bridge.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/30/taiwan-kinmen-islands-plan-peace-bridge-china.
I think Britian giving Hong Kong back to China is a great example to America for Hawaii
Both sides agree that there is only one China? You fail to mention both sides say that they are the true rulers of China?
ANALYSIS/As presidential race kicks off, China policy takes center stage
As the KMT tries to draw attention to Lai's pro-independence past, Lai's camp has been pushing Hou to comment on the "1992 Consensus."
According to the KMT, the "1992 Consensus" refers to a tacit understanding that both sides of the Taiwan Strait recognize there is only "one China," with each having its own interpretation of what China means.
Beijing has never publicly recognized nor denied the second part of the KMT interpretation, but it has made acceptance of the "1992 Consensus" a prerequisite for dialogue across the Taiwan Strait.
The DPP rejects the "1992 Consensus," arguing that agreeing to it implies acceptance of China's claim over Taiwan, and it has also drawn a parallel between the "1992 Consensus" and Beijing's "one country, two systems" formula for Taiwan.
The presidential race has kicked off after the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) officially selected New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜) as its candidate on May 17.
focustaiwan.tw
China renews threat, warns Taiwan independence will be ‘punished’
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said anti-China elements in foreign countries were ‘playing with fire’ on the issue of Taiwan’s independence.
China has renewed its
longstanding threat to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are “playing with fire”.
A spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday that Beijing was recommitted in the new year to “safeguarding sovereignty and territorial integrity” and “
smashing plots for Taiwan independence”.
“The malicious support for Taiwan independence among anti-China elements in a few foreign countries are a deliberate provocation,” the spokesperson, Ma Xiaoguang, said at a biweekly news conference.
“We call on the relevant countries to … cease sending the wrong signals to Taiwan independence separatist forces and cease playing with fire on the question of Taiwan,” Ma said.
China views Taiwan – a self-governing democracy where the defeated nationalists set up their government after losing China’s civil war in 1949 – as Chinese territory that must be
brought under Beijing’s control, and by force if necessary.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper tweeted the Taiwan Affairs Office warning that Taiwan’s “‘secession’ is doomed to fail” and that Taiwan’s independence “is an act waiting to be punished”.
High-profile visits to Taiwan in recent months by foreign politicians, including then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and numerous politicians from the European Union, have angered Beijing and spurred huge military exercises around the Island by Chinese forces, which
Taipei views as a rehearsal for invasion.
Taiwan's Desire for Unification With China Near Record Low as Tensions Rise
The
Taiwan public's declining desire for political union with China fell further to a near-record low in the first half of 2022, the island's leading pollster said on Tuesday.
In a biannual update to its surveys on core political attitudes in Taiwan, National Chengchi University's Election Study Center (ESC) found only 1.3 percent of respondents wanted unification with mainland China "as soon as possible," while a similarly low 5.1 percent desired formal Taiwanese independence at the earliest possibility.
The appeal for both scenarios, which the ESC has tracked since 1994, remain near all-time lows. The latest figures published Tuesday, represented a 0.1 point drop for immediate unification and 0.7 point drop for immediate independence—two extreme viewpoints that tend not to weigh too heavily on the democratic island's regular elections.
For the past two decades, the majority of respondents have favored some form of the "status quo," the survey showed. Taiwan, now a semi-recognized state, has been ruled separately from the People's Republic of
China on the mainland since the PRC was founded in Beijing in 1949.
A record 28.6 percent of those polled said they preferred to "maintain the status quo indefinitely," while 28.3 percent chose the status quo to "decide at a later date." Meanwhile, 25.2 percent of respondents opted for the status quo with a view to "move toward independence."
Relations between Taipei and Beijing have been fraught with tension for the better part of a decade, in part a reflection of the Taiwanese public's
distrust of the Chinese government and its leaders, who have
refused to rule out the use of military force against the island if it pursues de jure independence from the mainland.
Taiwan, whose president, Tsai Ing-wen, considers the island already a functionally independent country, says it has no plans to change the status quo.
On Tuesday, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Joanne Ou described as "absurd" a recent public address by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who warned of "dark clouds" and "ferocious storms across the Taiwan Strait" if the island were to formally separate from the mainland.
Ou said Beijing was spreading fictional claims to the island in a bid to "annex Taiwan and whitewash [its] provocative acts."
"The People's Republic of China has never ruled Taiwan and naturally has no right to represent the people of Taiwan in the international community," she said. "That neither side of the strait is subordinate to the other is a historical fact recognized by the international community. It is also the longstanding status quo across the Taiwan Strait."
In the 10 years since Xi took power in Beijing, his nationalistic rhetoric and assertive policies toward Taiwan have contributed to a spike in Taiwanese desire for self-determination, as well as less association with their neighbor across the strait, the survey suggests.
According to the ESC's latest identity polling—tracked since 1992—a record-low 2.4 percent of respondents identified as solely "Chinese," while 30.4 percent said they were "both Taiwanese and Chinese"—just 0.5 points above the all-time low. A near-record high 63.7 percent identified as only "Taiwanese."
Only 2.4 percent of Taiwan's residents identify as solely "Chinese," while roughly two-thirds say they are only "Taiwanese," according to new polling.
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You also avoided my question, "Do you believe Taiwan should go this route, as "one country, two systems".", doing a "Look over there." Not that I am surprised.
Since I am closing this page, might as well shine a Hong Kong light on it. Thought Hong Kong had another 50 years of not having a Chinese millstone around the peoples necks.
"one country, two systems"
On the bridge and people wanting to have the bridge built to the mainland, the island is ten times closer to the mainland that to Taiwan.
