Taiwan TV street interview: How Taiwanese youth think about "2 years Mandatory Military Service law"

[beijingwalker]

Taiwan TV street interview: How Taiwanese youth think about "2 years Mandatory Military Service law"

Replies are: It's useless, people will refuse to go to war anyway.
It's waste of time, it's just like a summer camp.
We'll just die if going to a war, there's zero chance we can win a war over mainland China.
Military training won't save our lives, and Taiwan's people are not united.

Question: If Taiwan goes to war with mainland China, would you like to join and fight?
Reply: Certainly not, I'll find a place to hide
We can fight but it's meaningless, we can never win.
No one likes to go to war...
Young people don't want to go to war and don't want to waste such a long time on military service
I won't, I don't want to die. Life is meant for more meaningful things.

In the end of the interview, the host shows the answers for the 5 quesions on board, the most chosen one is: "Come on, stop fooling around, what's the point for this conscription law when no one wants to fight and no one wants to go to war?"

 

[beijingwalker]

Taiwan youth: We don't want to fight, we don't want to die. If Americans want to bleed and die for us, be our guest.

 

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Look like USA occupied Afghanistan.

 

[beijingwalker]

A very strange situation from various interviews and polls is that many Taiwanese choose independence when being asked about their preference about independence or reunification with the mainland China, but when given only two choices: war or reunification, they pick reunification. This is really 不见棺材不掉泪。

 

[casual]

Taiwan is willing to fight China to the last American.

 

[S10]

I too think that China should restore 3 years military service, but it should be on a voluntary basis.

Those that complete this national service should be granted the right to stand for public office, given preferences for government jobs and entrance to top universities.

 

[Song Hong]

In Chinese history anyone who win the central plain got the entire country. The South will not fight.

 

[Globenim]

People in Taiwan: I dont want to fight China
U.S. puppet regime:Ready to die for America!?!?

Democracy with American characteristics

 

[hualushui]

Taiwan will resist China until the Americans shed their last drop of blood

 

[casual]

I too think that China should restore 3 years military service, but it should be on a voluntary basis.

Those that complete this national service should be granted the right to stand for public office, given preferences for government jobs and entrance to top universities.

Nope, Chinese army doesn't need more conscripts. China aint ever going back to human wave tactics.

 

[FuturePAF]

A very strange situation from various interviews and polls is that many Taiwanese choose independence when being asked about their preference about independence or reunification with the mainland China, but when given only two choices: war or reunification, they pick reunification. This is really 不见棺材不掉泪。

It’s not that strange at all, people want the best life possible, but for Taiwanese, should that choice have to be made, they would say; “Better Red then Dead” as Reagan would put it.

ultimately, the Taiwanese people won’t be happy with reunification at first (or ever for some), but they know they won’t be massacred by a country that sees them as a different people/race, as would have happened by the Japanese during their imperial period as during the conquest of Nanking.

 

[S10]

Nope, Chinese army doesn't need more conscripts. China aint ever going back to human wave tactics.

How could it be conscript when it's on a selective basis with little possibility of shortage? Even now there's no actual conscription.

 

[beijingwalker]

Many Taiwanese celebrate PRC's national day , not every Taiwanese wants independence, many still hope reunification.

 

[Beidou2020]

Taiwanese know a war with China is impossible to win. That whole island will become complete rubble. All infrastructure will be destroyed. No electricity. No water. No nothing. Even a stalemate would mean Taiwanese lose everything. Taiwan under no circumstance can withstand the all out firepower of the People’s Liberation Army. China and the PLA are only growing stronger from here both technologically and quantitatively.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Nope, Chinese army doesn't need more conscripts. China aint ever going back to human wave tactics.

It is to ensure that only those who have risked their lives in service will govern, understanding that they hold lives in the balance and it is not a game.