The international community strikes again.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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That building the girl with the Ukrainian flag is walking towards is the Chiang Kai-shek memorial, a monument to Taiwan’s brutal Cold War era US-backed fascist dictator. There’s a huge statue of him sitting on a throne like the Lincoln memorial through the arch in the middle.
Ukraine flag people and supporting brutal fascist reigns of terror seems to go hand in hand.
Seriously. They could have done the photoshoot in front of the Sun Yat-sen memorial or Taipei 101 or just, like, any other of the various notable photo-taking spots in Taipei. But no, they picked this one with all of its connotations. You have to assume it’s deliberate.
The funny thing is that Chiang was a corrupt incompetent dictator but even he would be appalled at the idea of Taiwan breaking away from China. The dude spent much of his life quashing random Warlords seeking to break away from China.