The Chinese government has recently objected to Taiwan obtaining defensive weapons. We need to send a message to China regarding Taiwan. That message is:
- A government exists to help its people protect themselves. A government that fails to to do so has no legitimate right to exist.
- If Taiwan and China are one country, then the government of China has a duty to help the people of Taiwan protect themselves from attack.
- If the Chinese government objects to the people of Taiwan protecting themselves from attack, then it proves that its leaders do not consider the people of Taiwan to be their people.
- If the Chinese government were to launch a first attack on the Taiwanese people it would thereby forfeit its claim to be the legitimate government of the people of Taiwan.
Posted 2022/01/18
(Rewritten to improve clarity soon after initial posting.)