<a country cannot have megalomania-cal ideas about its own territory ... not possible
but recovery of stolen property is possible>
That's what Germany [aka Germans] thought when they gathered "their" territories back into their control in the initial stages of WWII. The more they took, the more they thought was their own territory.
It's understandable that Chinese think that Taiwan belongs to China, just as Japan thought it belonged to them, and Chiang Kai Cheque thought it was a suitable possession for him, though he didn't use cheque-book diplomacy to acquire it as his base for operations.
Chinese have a very narrow view of the world, [according to you and Yiwu the Mad] with Maoistic mantras defining their clonesville minds so they all think the same, even when wrong. That's what Germans did too. Book burnings, opposition elimination, Big Lies, xenophobia, nationalistic rabidity and violent control of other people and their money of course.
You can't help thinking wrongly, having a cloned mind, being Chinese, as defined by living in China, not able to process the four forces of the apocalypse yourself. The unthinking start with the approved conclusion and work backwards, backfilling sufficient ground so they feel they have enough footing from which to admire their already-decided conclusion.
Suppose all the Libertarians move to New Hampshire and vote 90% to secede and "Live Free or Die". New Hampshire is indisputably a part of and owned by the USA.
Megalomaniacs outside New Hampshire would agree with you that Libertarians should not be allowed freedom. You agree they shouldn't. I think they should. It's not as though they are trying to create a stranglehold on the rest of the place by confiscating a national asset such as right of way, go-d, the country's energy supplies, or other public assets, paid for by the rest of the country. If they were trying to get away with, for example, Alaskan Oil, or Fort Knox, one could invite them to first pay for the asset being stripped.
In the instance of Taiwan, I don't know of any particular asset being removed from other Chinese.
Same with Quebec. They have been thinking about seceding for decades, but regularly decide not to. Wisely. Quebec would not be able to bludge on the rest if they seceded. A century ago, New Zealand voted itself independent of Great Britain and the British Empire, to more or less extent. Many countries voted [or didn't vote] themselves independent of Great Britain and the Empire and the Sovereign. The feeling was mutual. The losers were both as England was polluted by the riff-raff from the British Commonwealth and the local yokels voted themselves into poverty, civil war, and suppression [no habeas corpus and all the good things of British Civilisation]. Or were delivered into that by dictators. Some notable exceptions such as Singapore and Hong Kong aside.
Taiwan is just more of the same. Megalomaniacs will oppose freedom, self-determination and Goedelian self-referential creativity. Chimpoids are like that. Unthinking throwbacks to the past. They look human, but you can't see DNA processes inside the head. As homo sapiens sapiens nouveau DNA spreads and olde-style humans self-destruct, there will be less and less of the megalomania as the gene pool clears.
Until we get genetic engineering, it's a long, slow, process of filtration through the relentless and merciless four forces of the apocalypse sorting the good from the bad, with women doing a reasonable job of hurrying the process along as best they can. They have a difficult job in China, hence the high suicide rate.
If the people on Great Barrier Island [off the coast from Auckland] decided to go independent of New Zealand, that would seem a reasonable idea to me. I wouldn't recommend it to them as they'd find it very inconvenient and expensive. They wouldn't be able to bludge off the rest of us either through the welfare system. Their old-age pensions would take a hit for a start.
They already own the island, so it wouldn't be stolen property. Same with Taiwan. You and your cloned mates are just wanting OPM and to be bossy to give you a sense of importance. A little emperor without people to boss around is a sorry state. You see them in kindergarten - they have lots more than they can use, but are grabbing more and snarling at potential friends, ending up playing with nothing but defending "their" territory which they grabbed from other more pleasant children.
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