In the conflict between mainland China and the island of Taiwan, the question is not so much whether the recent visit of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Madame Nancy Pelosi, was timely or not, but rather whether peoples have the right to self-determination and to want to live in a democracy.
“by evoking a single China, Mr. Mélenchon makes the very identity of Taiwan as a state invisible”
Mr. Mélenchon’s statements are problematic in more ways than one, since they first of all deny the right of Taiwanese men and women to determine themselves as a nation and to freely choose their future. Worse: by evoking a single China, Mr. Mélenchon makes the very identity of Taiwan as a state invisible and reinforces its isolation on the international scene, taking up in passing without critical perspective the propagandist rhetoric of the Xi Jinping regime.
Furthermore, refusing to help the Taiwanese people (24 million inhabitants) in the face of the Chinese ogre (1.4 billion inhabitants and third world power in terms of the number of nuclear warheads!), under the pretext of avoiding a supposed interference in Chinese political affairs is to allow a totally unequal conflict to unfold.
In short, it’s a bit like seeing a ten-year-old child being extorted by a gang of ten armed hooligans to the teeth and refusing to help him, arguing that it’s none of our business and that in any case we don’t know him.
“Failure to take a firm position in the event of aggression of an isolated State by a great power is tantamount to siding with the latter.
The so-called posture of “non-alignment”, that is to say a policy of passive neutrality vis-à-vis the blocs in conflict, which the former French presidential candidate seems to adopt, can only benefit the strongest, in this case the Chinese regime.
Failure to take a firm position in the event of aggression once morest a relatively isolated state by a great power amounts, indirectly, to siding with the latter. The only democratic response to this situation is therefore unfailing support for Taiwan, since in any case “a democratic country is necessarily a provocation for a dictatorship”, as Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV).
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– Mélenchon and Taiwan: stupor and tremors
Yannick Maury – Green Member of the Vaud Grand Council
Posted today at 10:06 a.m.