[mytailorisrich]

What is interesting here is that in international relations and territorial claims Taiwan is really only different from the mainland in that they haven't the power to go after the claims that both sides of the straight essentially have and are too weak to be assertive and displease other countries.

Taiwan stays mostly quiet about the territorial issues with India because they want to play India against the mainland, as is plain in this tweet, although they have the same understanding as mainland China.

I can see "we love you Taiwan" replies from India... Maybe so now if if they were in power in Beijing you wouldn't.

[AnimalMuppet]

Schlock Mercenary Maxim #29: "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less."

That is, you can behave in a friendly manner to the enemy of your enemy. Just don't confuse them with your friend, because they aren't.

[mytailorisrich]

> Just don't confuse them with your friend, because they aren't.

Exactly what I wrote. The naivety of the public is telling on social media, and that's why they are so easy to manipulate as seen here.