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19-03-2018, 08:50 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

To be anti-China is not to be anti-Chinese.

To be pro-Taiwan is not to be pro-Chinese.

Eg, if you hate nazi Germans, it does not follow that you hate all white people. If you hate Americans, it does not follow that you hate all Caucasians.

So if I dislike communist-wannabe-capitalist China, it does not follow that I am anti-Chinese. (Eg I love Taiwan)

"Chinese" refers to ethinicity and not nationality.

Tiong refers to nationality.

Time for a Webster update. Name of China should be...

Ethinicity vs nationality; Chinese vs China (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/ethinicity-vs-nationality-chinese-vs-china.252097/)

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