A researcher at the Hudson Institute, Miles Yu teaches Chinese civilization at the United States Naval Academy.
He served as China adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the Trump tenure.
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- In your last article, you expose what you call the four motivations behind the “China obsession” with Taiwan.
Where does this obsession come from?
Miles Yu.
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The question of Taiwan is fundamental, because it is part of the ideology of the liberation of China.
China is not a normal country but a communist country with its own logic.
It is not enough to describe Xi Jinping as an evil man with a huge ego.
He is the leading figure of the followers of Chinese Marxism.
All communists think that they are the liberators of suffering peoples.
When they took power in 1949, they thought they had "liberated" the country.
But for them, Chinese communism has not completely succeeded because the remnants of the old pre-1949 regime still exist...
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