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somsai

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5. There are majority Chinese in Singapore also, I hope China doesn't decide
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:18 PM
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Singapore is also their country.

400 years ago Taiwan was 100% aborigines, now it's almost entirely two types of Chinese. Hakka and Taiwanese speaking, and then of course the people who came from the mainland and speak Mandarin which is the official language. I think the Hakka are a sea going type folk with populations up and down the coast down into SEAsia. This is from memory, I might be wrong. And the Taiwanese speakers are the same as the adjoining province on the mainland.

Taiwan was a Japanese colony for 50 years until after WWII.

China needs to get over itself but there are more than a million of them, they're very smart and work like hell.

I will say invading Taiwan would be nuts.

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