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by masswerk 1010 days ago
Both ROC and PRC are claiming mainland China and Taiwan as their exclusive territory. You can't acknowledge either claim without essentially dismissing the other in its entirety (which is just a polite way of speaking of war). At the same time, neither party can acknowledge the other side, because of this. Any attempt to resolve this by means of a regress will result in an infinite circle. Hence, everybody is tiptoeing on hot coals…

(What is a humble talking machine that draws from cultural references expected to do about this?)