Day 677

The road to Taipei City

China will surely be reunified, and all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. — Xi Jinping (December 31, 2023)

Every since Triple C left Kyiv last week to Europe during the biggest air attack of The Great War, I have been thinking about Taiwan and Ukraine, two electoral democracies threatened by authoritarian regimes. They have roughly the same-sized resident population — 25 million — and large diasporas.