Taipei is going to reunify with the mainland sooner rather than later, and more peacefully than anyone expects, as the upcoming visit between Ms Cheng and President Xi may be more significant than anyone in the West suspects:
The leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), is traveling to mainland China, marking the first such visit since 2016. Known as a vocal opponent of the island’s possible independence, Cheng Li-wun was invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping for what she has described as a peace-building mission.
Taiwan de facto became a self-governed territory after Chinese nationalist forces lost in the civil war against the communists and fled there in 1949. Beijing considers the island part of its sovereign territory under the One China policy, which the vast majority of countries also recognize.
Cheng’s visit will start on Tuesday and is expected to conclude on Sunday, with the KMT chair leading a party delegation. She has said she hopes to meet Xi personally as part of her pursuit of “cross-strait peace and stability.”
Speaking to NBC News ahead of the visit, Cheng argued that “in Taiwan, we must do everything in our power to prevent a war in the Taiwan Strait,” adding that she does not want the island to “become the next Ukraine.”
The combination of a) the successful integration of Hong Kong, b) the Ukraine catastrophe, and c) the implosion of the US military means that the reunification of Taiwan island with the Chinese government is probably going to take place before 2030 and without military conflict.
Cheng is an attractive and popular figurehead for leading the reunification charge. The global appeal of “democracy” for its own sake has been destroyed by the fake democracies of Europe and the charade of elections everywhere from Arizona to Ukraine. Everyone understands that there is no point in voting when the vote is just a fig leaf for various elites to ignore the actual will of the people.
And the obvious difference between the decadent, invaded societies of the so-called “democratic” West and the progress of the homogenous so-called “autocratic” nations could not be more obvious. Most of the world doesn’t admire America or Europe anymore; the Japanese even have a word for the disappointment that Japanese tourists have upon seeing the cruel reality of modern Paris.
Pari shōkōgun is a sense of extreme disappointment exhibited by many individuals when visiting Paris, who feel that the city does not live up to their expectations. The condition is commonly viewed as a severe form of culture shock.