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Jia-the-Human t1_iu6ydcr wrote

Reply to comment by QubitQuanta in Taiwan urges China to stop sabre-rattling and start talking by lustfulcuties

You mean before Xi got a good and solid hold on China? China's general attitude in resent years has been much more belligerent, I'm sure having a pro independence party in power in taiwan didn't help m, but I'm sure China would have been quite pushy anyways, Tsai won exactly because China's attitude wasn't quite "fine with Taiwan existing", she got a huge boost of popularity during elections after China went on a fit because of a taiwanese Kpop star showing a taiwanese flag.

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Moessenpay t1_iu80oc0 wrote

Taiwanese KPop star? What?

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Jia-the-Human t1_iu8l4gt wrote

Yeah, Korea has many kpop stars that aren't actually korean, in this case it was the group Twice, pretty famous might have heard of it, there's 5 korean members, 3 japanese, and one Taiwanese, Tzuyu who's been huge in the kpop world (At some point she was nª3 in popularity polls).

And in a tv show where they had each member hold a flag of their home country she had the Taiwanese one, and China got to accuse her of separatism, cancelled all of Twice concerts in China, and was banned from Chinese TV, she lost contracts with Huawei, and the label posted a video apology of her saying stuff like "There is only one China, the two sides of the strait are one, and I have always felt proud to be Chinese" while looking absolutely dejected, and that was right before the elections that Tsai Ying Wen won.

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