East Asia News & Politics Thread: China, South Korea, Japan...

All eyes as on China from what I heard... regarding their "attempts to persuade" the public.

So the results of Taiwan's elections are in, and Lai Ching-Te of the Democratic Progressive Party will be the next President of Taiwan.

Three wins in a row should be a wake-up call for the KMT.

So Lai’s term will be in the continuity of Tsai, I suppose? Or do they have different approaches?

Lai Ching-Te's known to be a deep green supporter, but he seems to be a moderate in not "calling" for Taiwanese independence, saying that Taiwan is independent per se...

I mean, it's sort of moot, isn't it? Even the deepest green is going to be pragmatically restrained from declaring independence.

That's basically the DPP's party platform.

White House says that (as usual) they don't support aspirations for Taiwanese independence.

Focus Taiwan: Former DPP chairman Shih Ming-teh has died at 83. Shih was a key pro-democracy activist under the Chiang regime, pioneering the tangwai movement and spending over 20 years total in jail, including 10 years for his role in the 1979 Kaohsiung protests. He served as the chairman of the DPP from 1993 to 1996 and later ran as an independent, after having a falling out with Chen Shui-bian's minority government.

The other complication is that the DPP lost its parliamentary majority - it has 51 seats, the KMT has 52, and the TPP has 8. There's also two independents that ideologically align with the KMT.

Edited by megarockman on Jan 14th 2024 at 8:58:00 AM

South Korea just pass a law that officially ban the butchering of dog, expecting phase out dog farm by 2027, but the law didn't ban the consumption of dog meat.

Seeing news that China's pissed at countries congratulating the new Taiwanese president.

Is any thing new there?

Whats interesting however is that this is the 3rd time in a row a non KMT president won in Taiwan that doesn't bow to the idea of Taiwan becoming a part of China, so Their Saber Rattling is starting to become less effective.

Seems like there's been a permanent shift in self-identification over the past ten-ish years — most now identify as Taiwanese and not Chinese, and those that identify as only Chinese have basically vanished (I assume mainly because those would chiefly be those who fled the Mainland in 1949 and have mostly just died out by now). In such cases, sabre-rattling I think tends to be counterproductive because all it's doing is reinforcing the notion of a threatening outsider.

Nauru announced that it will “only” recognize Beijing and stop official relations with Taipei.

Edited by Ominae on Jan 15th 2024 at 6:06:18 AM

...huh.

That's a country I've never heard of.

Edited by kkhohoho on Jan 15th 2024 at 9:30:26 AM

They're the third smallest country in the world (after the vatican and monaco), they're one island in the middle of the pacific, population like, 10,000.

I'm surprised they care, about the only thing they've done since the phosphate industry collapsed when the mine dried up is have a horrible detention center where Australia dumps immigrants. If anything I'd expect them to agree with Australia on things because the awful prison is most of their economy now.

They’ve suffered thanks to the environmental damage and its horrible.

Considering that Nauru's one big "under the books" playground for Beijing and Taipei to get support from Nauruan politicians back from the 1980s.

More to the point, they have a vote in the UN General Assembly, and potentially its various councils.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16387899110A41195300&page=2#comment-48

I posted the reason why Nauru could have flipped from Taipei to Beijing.

Today I learned that Hong-Kong had its own national soccer team separate from China in the Asian cup… I find it a bit surprising that Beijing would allow that considering they don’t even allow Taiwan to have sports teams under their own name…

Hong Kong has had that team since it was a British colony, and it was one of the twelve founding members of the AFC.

After 1997, when Hong Kong returned to China, it was allowed to keep the football team independent, as part of the One Country, Two Systems.

They just won a friendly match against China this month, the first since 1986, I think.

Moon Channel, well known for his Insight into gaming (Especially his video on why we always kill gods in JRP Gs) Goes into the South Korean Gender war that has become quite literal:

The Korean Gacha game Limbus Company made this war more apparent to quite a few people due to its controversial firing of a female artist.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Jan 21st 2024 at 10:49:06 AM