Suppose you read the history of the Taiwan situation. In that case, the trouble began when the Japanese surrendered the occupation at the end of WWII, and the Communists defeated the Nationalists in Mainland China. Nationalists fled to Taiwan and joined the population of people seeking self-determination, which was not Communism. The situation was similar to the split between North and South Korea, whereby the Chinese Communists backed the North, and the war never ended.
Taiwan has operated independently as a democratic-led entity though its legal status has been disputed ever since.
Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Taiwanese people have the right to choose, and it is apparent they have chosen independence.
The People's Republic of China (PRC), the communists, want to exert a takeover that the Taiwanese say they will resist with forceful military defense with the backing of the U.S. and its allies.
Therein lies a great danger because it will pit the U.S. and China in direct conflict.
China demonstrates the desire to control South Asia. They are backing Russia as it desires to maintain its former Socialist Republic that has dissolved into democracies.
Essentially, two nuclear-armed authoritarian nations demonstrate aggressiveness to control land and people beyond the status quo.
The challenge is to demonstrate to the leadership of authoritarian regimes that peaceful coexistence under the status quo far exceeds any gains from military conflict.
Competition should demonstrate the benefits of economic and political models on merit in the global marketplace.
"War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, uhh
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing"
Edwin Star
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