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Shit man, it was from the opinion survey. Something like at least 15,000 people took the survey. It's not like i personally believe it. Heck, I dont even want it to be true. I didn't make it up. TW doesnt have a lot of accomplishments that can use as a culturally unifying action. The KMT and by extension the education system, def the military one, of TW push this. Why do you think the TW military is a joke of a force that persistently undermines itself and I would say refuse to reform but they have taken american educated officers ,educated at american expense, to reform their military and pigeon holed EVERY SINGLE one of them. They push a unity of the Chinese people ideology, the accomplishments of CCP are portrayed as a greater accomplishment of the chinese people thus to be looked upto. Plus you know the shitshow that is the tw government. US congress gets a lot of hate for how it runs but at least they don't have full house brawls on the floor. It's not hard to convince a population dominated by the old and economically integrated that the CCP is one doing the good job.

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The most obvious example is Hong Kong. Have the things you've mentioned happened in Hong Kong. Why haven't your used Hong Kong as an example?

It seems to me that there are certainly things that happened in Hong Kong one could point to and object to. But I don't see any rape gangs or mass looting. I don't see Chinese soldiers quartered in every home.

I mostly just see a place that, in the grand scheme of things, isn't all that different than before.

Perhaps what happened in HK is worth fighting over, but at the end of the day most people in HK just kind of went on with their lives. They complained, they had some street protests, some moved away and some caused more of a ruckus. But they aren't hiding out in the hills trying to ambush PLA patrols.

People in Taiwan will fight because some of them want to fight and because the government will tell them to fight and there will be punishment if they don't. They might win! If not and the government falls there won't be an insurrection. People might leave and they might bitch and they might protest. But I guarantee Taiwanese families aren't going to lose their one kid fighting a guerrilla campaign because they don't want to turn out like Hong Kong.

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