Well what exactly did they lose? (im aware of the repression, but what exactly do you mean) Not to say this is completely legal. The western backed protests did their part, make cpc look bad. But compared to LA for example shooting with rubber of foreign journalists, holding a protester down and repeatedly trampling him with a horse, unmarked ice illegaly detaining brown people. Common argument i read was that these illegals and aliens should not behave like this in MY country. Freedom of speech. Meh I agree western democracy is different.

I get the propaganda but even some serious people seem to buy these images. They of course dont look to LA, for some pure democracy to compare to.

Taiwan is not sovereign, the government is a us puppet state, which is armed by us in gross violation of the us one china policy. If us puppet is your view of democracy then I see why you have no issue. All since beginning KMT was so horribly undemocratic, that even the maoists seemed very moderate. Some of the most vile stuff ive ever read came from kmt white terror(even wiki has some). I hope that im wrong, but the germans seem to like former nazi friendly states. Kmt had numerous connections to fascists and nazis.

Taiwanese are rich thanks to massive investments from US. As for the comparison to mainland, cpc managed an unprecedented in history wealth creation, comparing small part of china which received massive foreign capital inflow seems almost unreasonable.

Many taiwanese have also mainland residence, talk about not benefiting. What exactly do you mean by pro cpc propaganda? I get it it sounds bad, but why is it ok to run political ads in west and not in east?

Yeah I second that my german friend seems by far most against china, hes quite educated so especially on taiwan he conceded the international law, but idk why german media is so biased on this.

I get why government opposing china would, what I dont get is regular people who are serious about this. Sure there is the propagandized herd, but even some smarter people I know seem to have weird sinophobic preconceptions about this. All europeans.

How anyone serious can side with taiwan, other than maybe some nazis, is beyond me.

Reminds me of Kosovo

Free market I see

So you just disregarded the points I made? Ok. Well just to quickly compare. History of a country, even as uninformed as the one you presented, has no bearing on the argument here. China is now consistenly outpacing essentially rest of the world for idk 30 years? It overtook US as largest economy, and is growing far faster. Theyve lifted hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty, without precedent. But again this is irrelevant to their position on iran.

As for russia, ukraine is receiving aid yes? And if we are to compare population sizes for some unexplained reason ok for the sake of it lets do that. Us did not manage to beat afghans taliban, these used to be literally armed goat herders, unlike trained ukrainian soldiers, western mercenaries and massive aid of the west.

Now to actually get to the topic there are bilateral talks and russia holds significant territory, those are just observations. No need to try to predict based on some emotional dogma. But if things are to continue as they are now, significant territory remains ceded.

Again for some reason china which is invested in iran is not relevant. As for russia it has considerable territory in ukraine. Maybe that will change, but note that unlike before, bilateral talks are happenning.

Yeah they only managed to keep him in charge for over a decade. And china? Also why are you confusing military power with some unspecified peoples claims? You are not inflating ‘things’ when you assume that ukraine will beat russia?

You mean younger as in pre IDF age? Or do you mean the ones carrying out the killings?

I hope that Iranian citizens will not be deliberately murdered by israel.

Iran is a BRICS member and both china and russia are invested in Iran. I dont think that this will be so easy. It will be interesting to see if US gets involved, since it almost never wants to directly fight against a decent enemy all since Vietnam.

Delivering baby formula to certain people seen specifically as a form of protest by all media.

Modern politics.

When I read the headline I thought it was kidna funny, then I saw the source and laughed out loud. The anonymous source might be Adrian Zenz or what his name was.

Ahh ok. I thought that you were implying that the port workers were in the wrong.

Many european people are very different from their governments. If they know whats happening, they become appalled. Thats why the propaganda is so strong here. So that most dont know.

Come on guys not all holocaust supporters were bad, some of them were just normal people. /s

Their morality and heroism shines through the region.