Taiwan is a much contested territory today and has stirred up much political turmoil. Dividing the line between Eastern and Western narrative, the island sets up the basis for a dialogue that is certain to end in sour disagreement.
The outcome of this year’s election has demonstrated Taiwan’s political inclinations; Ing-we’s gesture of passing over the stick to Lai in their presidential commercial campaign shows just how confident the DPP were in securing a victory. The DPP stand firm in their fight for Taiwanese independence, unyielding in their resolution to assert political stardom for the island. Lai is slammed by Beijing as a separatist, a troublemaker; Xi has warned Biden that Taiwan today has become the most dangerous subject in US-China relations.
For the Chinese, Taiwan is part of their sacred territory, emphasised by Xi as a ‘red line that must not be crossed’. For the Taiwanese, there is no interest in being reintegrated into China. A case for sovereignty has been declared, the future president Lai vowing to defend it with his life. Taiwan’s desire for political glory and exceptionalism is obvious, but can the island really afford the price of chaos if violence is to ensue?
Followed by remarkable economic soar and military prowess, today China has a potential to alter the fundamental architecture of the international system, replace the New World Order with one which will not adhere to Western liberalism. The US has become disorientated, seized by a fear that the emerging superpower of the East will overthrow their hegemonic status.
Taiwan gives the US predicate to curtail China’s political status, it has become a catalyst for inciting political division and dysphoria. With the island’s geographical proximity to mainland China, Taiwan is the ideal battleground for a proxy war between the US and China. Advocating for Taiwan’s democracy has become the perfect rationale for stirring up political dissent. Within this rationale, the US is portrayed as the vanguards of truth and freedom, the CCP as troublesome authoritarians thirsty for power.
Today, to fight in the name of democracy means eradicating terrorism, defeating communism, dispelling any government that may not conform to the Western model of leadership. Democracy has turned into an instinct for aggressive dominance, of fear mongering, unable to withstand alternate models of political ideals. Insistent on the need for a universal global attire, the West’s ideological fight has become a superficial crusade, desperately determined to contain China.
Vowing to defend the island, the US has maintained unofficial relations with Taiwan since 1979, making it one of the top importers of US weapons. Little is it apparent that this American-led coalition aimed at China will only provoke Xi and his ministers into further retaliation. Taiwan’s farther dive into separatist politics this year is alarming, though perhaps not surprising. What is crucial is how neighbouring countries and the US will respond to Taiwan’s position in relation to the motherland, and how much further Sino-American relations are to intensify.
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Taiwan is a much contested territory today and has stirred up much political turmoil. Dividing the line between Eastern and Western narrative, the island sets up the basis for a dialogue that is certain to end in sour disagreement.
The outcome of this year’s election has demonstrated Taiwan’s political inclinations; Ing-we’s gesture of passing over the stick to Lai in their presidential commercial campaign shows just how confident the DPP were in securing a victory. The DPP stand firm in their fight for Taiwanese independence, unyielding in their resolution to assert political stardom for the island. Lai is slammed by Beijing as a separatist, a troublemaker; Xi has warned Biden that Taiwan today has become the most dangerous subject in US-China relations.
For the Chinese, Taiwan is part of their sacred territory, emphasised by Xi as a ‘red line that must not be crossed’. For the Taiwanese, there is no interest in being reintegrated into China. A case for sovereignty has been declared, the future president Lai vowing to defend it with his life. Taiwan’s desire for political glory and exceptionalism is obvious, but can the island really afford the price of chaos if violence is to ensue?
Followed by remarkable economic soar and military prowess, today China has a potential to alter the fundamental architecture of the international system, replace the New World Order with one which will not adhere to Western liberalism. The US has become disorientated, seized by a fear that the emerging superpower of the East will overthrow their hegemonic status.
Taiwan gives the US predicate to curtail China’s political status, it has become a catalyst for inciting political division and dysphoria. With the island’s geographical proximity to mainland China, Taiwan is the ideal battleground for a proxy war between the US and China. Advocating for Taiwan’s democracy has become the perfect rationale for stirring up political dissent. Within this rationale, the US is portrayed as the vanguards of truth and freedom, the CCP as troublesome authoritarians thirsty for power.
Today, to fight in the name of democracy means eradicating terrorism, defeating communism, dispelling any government that may not conform to the Western model of leadership. Democracy has turned into an instinct for aggressive dominance, of fear mongering, unable to withstand alternate models of political ideals. Insistent on the need for a universal global attire, the West’s ideological fight has become a superficial crusade, desperately determined to contain China.
Vowing to defend the island, the US has maintained unofficial relations with Taiwan since 1979, making it one of the top importers of US weapons. Little is it apparent that this American-led coalition aimed at China will only provoke Xi and his ministers into further retaliation. Taiwan’s farther dive into separatist politics this year is alarming, though perhaps not surprising. What is crucial is how neighbouring countries and the US will respond to Taiwan’s position in relation to the motherland, and how much further Sino-American relations are to intensify.
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