Happy Unification Day

(A Sudeten woman dutifully salutes parading Nazis, October, 1938.)

To be perfectly accurate, there'd be a subservient KMT goon there helping the butcher from Beijing.  Oh well.  (Cartoon by Cox and Forkum via Kai Chen Blog)

Comments

[Άλισον]

The boy on Taiwan should have the word "KMT" on his shirt!

[The Foreigner]

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No argument from me.

[J-Milk]

Yeah - the CCP are just like the Nazis.

Do they have a genocide in mind for their minorities, as the Nazis did [of course] as well as the British against the aboriginal people in Australia / Tasmania and the Americans against the Natives?

Or are Han Chinese just traveling in search of better lives?

Would one solution be to forbid internal migration?

[The Foreigner]

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No, the Chinese government isn't JUST LIKE the Nazis -- but it is dangerously authoritarian nonetheless.

The Chinese government may not want to commit genocide in any of their occupied territories, but they've instead chosen the option of a kinder, gentler genocide. Cultural genocide. And those who do not compliantly obey when they hear the words, "You will be assimilated," are dealt with most harshly.

(It's fair of you to point out that it's not Chinese colonists who imprison Tibetan monks, or shoot Tibetan nuns in the back as they're trying to escape the Worker's Paradise. It's the Communist Party of China that does that.)

In Taiwan there are those who peddle the slippery snake oil that unification would be painless and beneficial, and would furthermore come without any loss of freedoms.

With that, I strongly beg to differ.

[The Foreigner]

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Forgot to mention the most important similarity, J-Milk. The Sudetenland could not have been annexed the way it was without the active help of the Sudeten German Party (SdP).

While in Taiwan, President Ma "Conrad Henlein" Ying-jeou (KMT) labors mightily towards a similar result.