“Fuck the people that try to make you scared,” -Pascal

Dude, you’re promoting a horror film.

I think they were… They did a bunch of massacres and political repression didn’t they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre

Wasn’t that part of the betrayal that started China’s civil war? Says there they killed hundreds of thousands of Communist supporters and unionists, turned women into prostitutes… And that KMT party members denounced Chiang Kai Shek (who became leader of the RoC dictatorship) to Sun-Yat Sen, the pro-democracy candidate.

Pretty sure the RoC factions of the KMT sucked pretty bad… Then later the communists sucked less than them.

The violent Chinese nationalists weren’t the good guys. Western nations supported the subsequent military dictatorship in Taiwan because it was pro-Capitalist, anti-communist (and also anti-democracy).

It was only when Chiang Kai Shek died in the 1970s that the pro-democracy movement in Taiwan felt they could start properly without getting killed.

Oh, did The Union come close to having a brutal military dictatorship after the civil war like Taiwan had? Why would you put The Union as being closer to Chiang Kai-Shek? Were they the more Capitalistic ones?

Like imagine if the Confederate States fled to Hawaii and claimed to be the real America… And the world took their side and swore to protect the “Confederate States of America” on Hawaii…

Shit wouldn’t make sense. You’d be like “WTF world? What’s up with that?”

Doesn’t have to be expressed via the KMT though. That was the party that ruled Taiwan as a military dictatorship for 25 years after all.

At the very least they should change the country’s official name to something that isn’t “The Republic Of China”. Leaving that as the official name just feels like trolling.

I just don’t think I’d fight for in a “We’re the real China, no, We’re the real China!” based war. If so many Taiwanese identify as Chinese it seems like something The West should stay out of. An extension of their civil war.

What’s more Taiwan keeping “The Republic of China” as their official name, and allowing the Chinese National party (KMT) to still operate there is kind of asking for trouble.

If you want to be your own nation they needed to make that clearer about 30 year ago rather than playing these stupid games with names and parties.

Still seems fairly unlikely that China would go to war over Taiwan. It wouldn’t be that easy, and their economy is better for having Taiwan as a major trading partner.

Taiwan acts as a political firewall too, with lots of Chinese companies having their front facing customer service there.

Don’t believe the hype.

They - failed Dr. Josef Mengele for instance lived out his life in Latin America working for the Mengele tractor company then drowned in a swimming accident.

Christopher Lee must have been blind to miss the fact. Many of them didn’t even bother to change their names.

Didn’t the Vatican organise a whole underground railroad for Nazis to go retire in Latin America…

Bastards of a feather…