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>There are lots of arguments against the national right to
self-determination, but I don't see any as relevant here. Further, the PRC seems a clear case of authoritarian capitalism. Why would anyone think of it as "socialist"? Why would anyone defend it, especially now that it's so powerful economically and militarily? Maybe China is an economically dependent nation, but it's not directly dominated as a colony or under a neo-colonial system. Please correct me if I'm wrong.< Comment
I do not believe you are wrong but view the question entirely different.
As I understood matters - perhaps incorrectly, China has maintained for over 50 years that Taiwan is part of China and that there is only one China . . . the Peoples Republic of China. Further, China has made it clear that it will not except Taiwan (and has the military authority to back its claim) striving to remain outside its multinational state jurisdiction and will go to war over this issue.
I believe that this has been the basic stance and view of the government of China since 1949 no matter what the character of its ruling group(s) or property relations. Actually, I believe our government will NOT engage in all out war over Taiwan. Really. And I believe US troops are going to be withdrawn from South Korea and the Korean peninsula enter the economic and political orbit of China, no matter what the character of its government and economic system. Is not China the major trading partners of both sides of the Korean peninsula?
Taiwan is not only gravitating but is going to be squarely in the economic and then political orbit of China no matter what the internal sectarian politics of Taiwan or the property relations in China. Seems Taiwan will go the way of Hong Kong and will determine its "national self determination" within the "Greater multinational state of China." Wouldn't surprise me if Russia went the way of China.
Time will tell.
Further much of this series transported from Marxmail was under the title : "Is the struggle to unify China an _expression_ of Great Han Chauvinism?," "The Taiwan Nation a recent and purely political artifact" and "Taiwan nationalism, a recent and purely political artifact."
Seems to me China has the first and last say on this issue. I do not believe that "Han Chauvinism" has anything to do with this issue or that of Hong Kong or the recent claims that parts of Korea were historically part of China. I believe matters are much deeper than the alleged ideological and political striving of a dominant nationality in China.
I am interested in whether or not Texas will be allowed to leave the American Union. ;-) Talk about some scary stuff.
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