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by josephcsible 1456 days ago
The legitimate government of China that's lasted for thousands of years is currently effectively exiled to Taiwan. The CCP is a new usurper/colonizer/occupier.
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> The CCP is a new usurper/colonizer/occupier.

Those three words mean three different things and are not interchangeable. The CCP cannot accurately be called a "colonizer", because, regardless of its faults, it's not exogenous to China.

It's a category error.

Which word would you recommend as the best fit for what I'm trying to say?
Victor.
That misses the point of the illegitimacy. Is that the only word you'd use to describe the Taliban after they usurped control of Afghanistan?
This is what my Chinese-American friends say, only with much more colorful language.