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Originally Posted by SutterBrother
Taiwan Politics 1.0 - Cash my Shek!
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The Taiwan election is kind of out of place in this thread, but it's also interesting and relevant to show a contrast to the simplicity of the representations of APAC issues that are usually presented in the US media. Details like those shared by driveway or the actual interests of people in the business class and the working class in industries in Taiwan that export to China are often just ignored in narratives being crafted around the US vs. China rivalry or the Democracy vs. Autocracy ideology.
Those political/ideological narratives in the US have been effective domestically in motivating support for economic nationalism, but it's a problematic narrative for America overseas. The world is much more complex than portrayed in those narratives, and people in the Global South are of course smart enough to understand complexities in their own regions and their own relationships with other nations, including both the US and China.
Many interests in APAC don't like the "us or them" wedge that the US is pushing, especially as many don't perceive the US as having a persuasive vision for the international order. This is true in APAC and in other parts of the Global South.