Taiwan asserted its sovereignty Saturday after Donald Trump warned against Taiwanese self-determination following the American leader’s two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Taiwan “is a sovereign and independent democratic nation, and is not subordinate to the People’s Republic of China,” Taiwan’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
The ministry’s remarks come as a swift rebuke against Trump, who said Friday that he was “not looking to have somebody go independent” when asked about whether the U.S. would come to Taiwan’s rescue in the event of an invasion by China.
Is Korea a civil war that ended? How about the confederates in the US? The Maori in New Zealand? What's would you say about Yugoslavia?
I think a lot of people see a difference between groups prancing about saying words, and the pragmatic situation.
I'm not saying anything about the ideal outcome for any of those situations I've listed. Just that they've been stable for long enough they fit a definition of "ended", even if over time that situation does change a little and that internal civil wars have a habit of forming new nations even while some groups hold onto the past