Riots due to change in switching recognition from Taiwan to China

The escalating riots are fueled by domestic grievances over development priorities and the country’s decision to switch diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China.

Australia has pledged to send about 120 soldiers and police officers to keep the peace.

Solomon Islands switched recognition from Taiwan to Shanghai in September 2019, two years ago !!!!!

VIjay Prashad, historian and journalist, claims that "When Sogavare's government shifted his country's link to China, the US - driven by Marco Rubio and other violators of international sovereignty - built a coalition of anti-communists and pro-Zionist Christians. See the Israeli flag held by those making the coup."

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare blames foreign interference.

Sogavare said he stood by his government’s decision to embrace Beijing, which he described as the “only issue” in the violence, which was “unfortunately influenced and encouraged by other powers.”

External pressures were a “very big ... influence. I don’t want to name names. We’ll leave it there,” Sogavare said.

“I’m not going to bow down to anyone. We are intact, the government’s intact and we’re going to defend democracy,” he added.

Thoughts?

washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/solomon-islands-unrest-protests-china/2021/11/24/807c68e2-4d18-11ec-a7b8-9ed28bf23929_story.html

abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/protesters-defy-government-lockdown-order-solomon-islands-81389572

Real

Committing racist violence because your government engage in realistic politics

The neoliberal vision

I fail to see what’s racist in this

maybe the fact they burned down chinatown as well, not just parliament

Okay you right
If they burnt down Chinese businesses owned by Chinese people then yeah
Otherwise It could be seen as symbolic

Why would anyone even recognize the government of Taiwan as the legitimate government of China for any reason other than political lip service at this point either. The Kuomintang aren’t necessarily popular and most Taiwanese people consider themselves that before being Chinese, as we see here. Also they wouldn’t accept an independent Tibet nor Xinjiang, so idk what points westerners win on that part

Results from an identity survey conducted each year since 1992 by the Election Study Center, National Chengchi University.1 Responses are Taiwanese (green), Chinese (red) or Both Taiwanese and Chinese (hatched). Non-responses are shown as grey.

esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7800&id=6961

Keep in mind they switched policies two f***ing years ago. This is absolutely foreign interference. What kind of organic protest happens two years after something.

IM TIRED

I read elsewhere that the protests where actually because of COVID restrictions and they burned down Chinatown because of racism from thinking COVID originated in China, lots of other news sites seemed to have corroborated this? @op do you know anything about this?
Also always thought Taiwan discourse was weird since the US doesn’t even actually recognize Taiwan technically despite its weird pro-Taiwan slants

the US has never respected taiwan its actually hilarious

they used to call chiang kai shek "cash my check"

Yeah the US treats Taiwan like a deadbeat treats an illegitimate child, willing to pay child support to keep them quiet but not willing to acknowledge them as actually being loved except for when convenient

"like a deadbeat"

When i was a kid made in china s*** was considered cheap made in Taiwan s*** was more fly to wear

reddit acts like this toward eastern european countries too. they are legit bloodthirsty casually toward russians but that s*** will come up even with euro countries like hungary, poland, and belarus. if you go in the replies to any headline that mentions russia they dont even act like russians are sentient humans

Lmfao

You shouldn't burn embassies and commit racist violence regardless of what you think. That's horrendous vibes and people willing to recognise taiwan should condemn racial hatred or their supposedly multicultural open societies don't have a leg to stand on