• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t see this reply before. The other commenter has it right that the relevance of its pathetic diplomatic position is that it is being propped up by the US/NATO and ultimately depends on them to exist apart from the PRC, which makes it very difficult to oppose them. Incidentally, does the US not sponsor Taiwan? Even just recently there was this, which sure seems like sponsorship to me.

    • @randint@lemm.ee
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      01 year ago

      Apparently being sponsored by a foreign state is now counted as being a puppet state?

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        201 year ago

        That part was in response to you saying:

        The US sponsoring Taiwan is a thing of the past

        I could have formatted it better, but the rest was focused on the puppet part and then I prefaced the sponsorship part with “Incidentally” to indicate changing over to an adjacent subject.