01-10-2020, 11:57 PM
(01-10-2020, 11:40 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Hong Kong was a British colony prior to 1977, and Taiwan was a
Japanese colony prior to the end of World War II, but Hong Kong and
Taiwan see themselves as very close. They both favor the Cantonese
dialect of the Chinese language over the Mandarin dialect favored by
the CCP. And they both favor freedom and democracy, which the CCP
considers to be a Western plot to overthrow the CCP.
This is not correct. Almost everyone in Taiwan speaks Mandarin, not Cantonese; the few that don't speak Mandarin speak Taiwanese, which is farther from either Mandarin or Cantonese than they are from each other. To the extent that they see each other as close, it's only because they are both small democratic Han entities that live in the shadow of Mainland China, and thus have some common interests.
