Sorry, Elon, You Are 100% Wrong on Taiwan
by Gordon G. Chang • December 30, 2024 at 5:00 am
In fact, no Chinese ruling group has ever held indisputable sovereignty to the island.
From 1928 to 1943, the Communist Party itself recognized Taiwan as a state separate and apart from China.
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[T]he People's Republic is getting weaker — the Chinese economy is failing — making notions of inevitability outdated.
"From their standpoint, you know, maybe it's analogous to like Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because... the U.S. Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force," Elon Musk, appearing remotely at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles in September, said referring to Taiwan.
In May, Musk talked to CNBC on the same topic. "The official policy of China is that Taiwan should be integrated," he told the channel's David Faber. "One does not need to read between the lines. One should only read the lines." And then the world's richest man stated this: "I think there's a certain, there's some inevitability to the situation."
Musk is brilliant when it comes to providing what the world needs, but he is ignorant about Taiwan. His conclusions could not be more wrong.
