Will Taiwan Just Give Up?(www.theatlantic.com)
4 pointsby JumpCrisscross5 hours ago3 comments
  • A_D_E_P_T5 hours ago
    There's movement in that direction. "Beijing hails Taiwanese scholar’s rare proposal on reunification," from two days ago: https://archive.ph/2VSMT

    It's hard to view it as a bad outcome next to the alternative, though.

    Also the birthrate in Taiwan has absolutely cratered. TFR is 0.69.

    > https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/price-of-parenth...

    I believe that this is among the lowest vales ever recorded, anywhere. It's simply an objective fact that Taiwan is not a vibrant or healthy society. The status quo obviously isn't working for them.

    • curuinor4 hours ago
      Joining to another crater-low birth rate society will not make anything better on that front. No pro-natalist policy I am aware of has actually worked, and I'm regrettably aware of quite a few.
  • yogthos5 hours ago
    Taiwan will be repatriated the same way HK was. And anybody who's been to HK recently would know that they'll be much better of for it.