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That is the official stance of most of the world including Taiwan itself.
As stated: Taiwan literally can’t safely officially repudiate the ’one china’ policy from their end because of the possibility that China would see that as declaring independence and potentially regard that as justification for military intervention. No-one in Taiwan seriously believes that it is conceivable to retake the mainland, nor any other historically old ROC territories.
In terms of the rest of the world, ‘one china’ is expressed as a form of strategic ambiguity in reference to Taiwan.
Yes I’m aware of why everyone says the same thing officially, I’m just stating that everyone says it. Is hardly a unique thing to say.
Right, but I don’t think that davel (shown in the OP) is being intellectually honest regarding the ‘one china’ policy and how the Taiwanese actually see it.
Perhaps, but the truth remains that both China and Taiwan have always claimed it is part of China. It’s not an inaccurate thing to say. So it was a faulty argument to begin with because China was never claiming a Sovereign Nation that had never not been China according to everybody.
It was always a poor argument especially when there are far better versions of that argument to make such as their attempted stealing of territory belonging to the Philippines.