Taiwanese DO NOT Have the Right To Vote For Independence. Neither Do You in USA. With Taiwan’s election results in last night, this misleading topic pops up once again 台灣人沒有投票獨立的權利. 你在美國也沒有. 昨晚台灣大選結果出來, 這個誤導的話題再次出現 by MARIO CAVOLO 1/14/24

In light of the Taiwan election results last night, many people talk about the Taiwanese “voting for independence”

Well, the Taiwanese dont have the right to vote for independence.

And if you live in the United States & many other countries

Neither do you

Oops. That’s right, you also don’t have the right to vote for independence of the state or province you live in.

Welcome to reality.

The idea has often been argued that Taiwanese people should somehow have the right to vote for their own independence and it certainly sounds reasonable and wonderfully democratic too.

However, some quick comparisons in the real world show thats not how the world works in any country.

First we may point out that, no, the Taiwanese of Taiwan island the Republic of China province don’t have any more right to vote for their independence any more than the citizens here in Liaoning province or any other province of China might have the right to. That’s not how China’s system of government works.

Regardless of any unsettled arguments and plenty of passionate opinions to the contrary, there is no piece of paper or declaration with anyone’s signature on it stating that Taiwan is a separate country from China. And as we all know, the arguments continues, much like the endless argument between Israel and the Palestinians, fortunately without the accompanyong bloodshed.

Meanwhile, I jokingly declare that I love living here in Shenyang and want to become the king of Shenyang, the capitol of Liaoning province and declare myself emperor of the newly independent Liaoning province and so call for a vote of the people of Liaoning province. Well, you get the idea. It can’t be done. The citizens of Zhejiang or Anhui can’t just decide one day they feel like having a vote for independence from the mainland. Likewise, Taiwan.

Turning our attention westward, likewise, the citizens of Kentucky or Pennsylvania or any other state of the United States can’t do it either. Neither can citizens of a province of Italy or Germany, if they ever wanted to declare their independence via citizens vote, it wouldn’t happen without severe disruption, as we know from history including attempts in Australia, Quebec, Spain. Even Texas has a secession plan in its legislature and we all know it’s just not going to happen. The US Supreme Court already ruled on it, they don’t have the right to vote for independence. That’s the end of that.

That’s our dose of reality when it comes to sovereignty and independence with the best we can hope for maybe being a quiet little island or mountaintop where nobody will bother us as we tend our tomato & basil garden.

For a truly entertaining look into this topic, I highly recommend the 1970s Hollywood classic, The Man Who Would Be King, with screen legends Sean Connery & Michael Caine. It didn’t end too well for them either.the