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The EU should recognize Taiwan as an independent sovereign state (like e.g. the Holy Sea does), establish official diplomatic relations and support UN membership of Taiwan.
Rationale: The EU should support democracies rather than dictatorships and value support of democracy over economic gains.
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I also suspect that more recognition of Taiwan would also put pressure on mainland China to democratize
Ideally, yes - although unfortunately it seems not very likely.
Mainly it would relieve other countries of the excuse not to "interfere in domestic affairs",
and thus increase their willingness to help if the people of Taiwan are threatened.
Very good, I was about to propose the same thing. Please check my proposition to counter intellectual property stealing in mainland China (Protecting EU companies from intellectual property stealing in China)
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It should be a coordinated act of the EU, USA, Japan and Australia. That will make any retaliation from China much more difficult.
Quite right. It needs widespread support in order to be effective and safer.
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I agree with Gabriel Popa: the EU should encourage other democracies to join in. There is strength in numbers. And, if the EU proposes going it alone, then commercial interests in the EU will oppose it. I would encourage the proposers of this idea to amend it to incorporate Gabriel Popa's point.
I would also suggest that, given the EU's limited foreign policy competence, the proposal be amended to talk of the EU *and Member States* recognising Taiwan.
Good idea! However it doesn't seem to be possible to change a published idea, and I don't want to withdraw it.
But feel free to submit a similar, modified idea (there are others, too, like e.g. Recognition of Taiwan Recognition of Taiwan ).
.mmm is 'democracy' or something that looks like it to be the criterion for independence? If so are all 'separatist'
initiatives to be supported (e.g. Catalan and similar) by the EU?
The point is that Taiwan was never 'independent' at any point in its history and mainland China has had a claim
for some centuries. The history is worth investigating if only from the 16th century onwards (and the argument
is rather more compelling prior to the European exploration).
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