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[nickpellatt]

I work with adults and dont have the above issue TBH. You need to control and direct them more I dont go in for 'free talk' very much and I dont encourage it either TBH. Ideally (although not always) my students 'free talk' is tightly controlled to a topic, with certain target language, relating to the issue at hand.

I have been knocked before for not 'teaching' sensitive topics (on this forum, not in class) but I think you can do sensitive stuff, but you have to approach it in a more sensible way. Those who enjoy political things may find it wiser to use something like The Falklands Islands (called The Malvinas in Argentina and on Chinese world maps) and discuss the 'tug of war' that exists with them.

Using other world situations may be helpful in giving students the chance to think about situations closer to home, without stirring up too much controversy in class. (If thats you bag...mostly it isnt mine TBH)

[ymmv]

[ymmv]

double post

[mdovell]

you could kinda dodge it with a few different examples.

You could get into native american tribal land and how they can do things but not to the point of leaving (kinda like a SAR)

There's also a recent trip Obama made to Puerto Rico. Technically it's not a state but it isn't independent either (sound familiar?) Constant conflict between three arguments.

[roadwalker]

[Tetris]

I would just tell them it's an island, and then continue discussing whatever prior subject.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

[petebeatstreet]

[SahanRiddhi]

Highly doubtful that the CCP is even serious about reunification with Taiwan. Like everything else in Asia, it's a face issue. Taiwan's constitution says that government, run by the Kuomintang, is the one legitimate government for all of China. That would include the mainland! That, naturally, never sat well with the CCP. In fact, the mainland constitution paints the CCP-run government as the only legitimate government of China, to include Taiwan!

So the CCP is never, ever going to accept the legitimacy of the Kuomintang in Taiwan. To do so is to concede that the CCP-run government in Beijing has no legitimacy, even on the mainland. The CCP will always make boisterous claims as to its right to rule Taiwan.

Does the CCP actually want to rule Taiwan? That is another issue entirely. I suspect they think it'd be more trouble than it's worth.

[chinesearmy]

unification is inevitable

its just a matter of how and what terms.

taiwan economy depends on china

if someone thinks taiwan is a functioning democracy you obviously never seen the fights in parliament.


it'll kinda suck for taiwan when unification comes and then tonnes of people from the boonies are invading taiwan, just like how they are flooding shenzhen shanghai and beijing

[wangdaning]

The part that really sucks is that Taiwan has it's own people who were killed out by the KMT (Government People's Party). It was wholly funded by taxpayers in the states (thanks mom). The han (a made up term to unify people on the CCP/GMD lines) keep taking more and more. They are not an ethnic group, it is like ticking white to mean me on a form.

[petebeatstreet]

[sainthood]

[Guerciotti]