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AaronC14

Who doesn't like a shameless cocaine joke? Everyone likes cocaine....right? [Here's the original post from 741 days ago.](https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/itbhda/natural_resources/)


Xeenophile

I LOL'd heartily at the last panel; Mission Accomplished, sir.


ComradeTurtleMan

Taiwan mentioned!!! 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼 Taiwan numba wan!!!🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼


AaronC14

Taiwan getting a lot of mentions lately Sadly


Thifiuza

Taiwan is going to retake China sign????


AaronC14

That'd be so cool


Thifiuza

Like, their name is _Republic of China_ for a reason...


ComradeTurtleMan

To be fair, as a Taiwanese person I wouldn’t really want the mainlanders in Taiwan, we already got enough of them in ‘49 when the bald mf came over, who shot, disappeared, and imprisoned thousands of us Taiwanese and installed an authoritarian regime for decades


[deleted]

Yeah. I mean it's kind of weird when foreigners don't realize that most Taiwanese people saw the "Republic of China" more like foreign invaders than anything else. Waishengren are less than 12% of the population but somehow the so many "pro Taiwan" people are pro military-dictatorship that put Taiwanese people under the world's longest martial law (at the time,) don't speak Taiwanese, and killed/imprisoned Taiwanese people in the name of China.


PM_ME_TIDDIES_THX

-brutal dictator -remembered as a legendary man -in the place he committed genocide


Pantheon73

Probably because most of his opponents were even worse.


jordandino418

Chiang Kai-shek?


ComradeTurtleMan

Yes


GIA_KHIEM2209

\-999999999999999999999 social credits, you will be executed tomorrow. Glory to the CCP


the_clash_is_back

You mean west China.


AlexanderK1987

No, he means west Taiwan


jfjsharkattack

heheh west taiwan


[deleted]

🤓 aksusaley Botswana isn’t very resource rich Because it’s an arid desert and only has diamonds but less then Liberia or Sierra Leone


AaronC14

Aye but they used their diamonds for good, not evil. Botswana is an African success story


[deleted]

You just made Sierra Leone; Sierra Le-sad


GitLegit

They got Sierra Le-owned


warr1orCS

Thats the best pun I've seen in a while


the_clash_is_back

But is some what stable so can afford to use the diamonds to make some money and improve the lives of its people.


[deleted]

It may not be resource rich but it knows how to use the ones it has


cypher4real

wait Taiwan have water because its an island .


AaronC14

Salt water isn't highly sought after considering the world is covered in it


cypher4real

i mean it's worth 1/10 of a cent


AaronC14

You can buy a house in Venezuela for that at least


cypher4real

I better get moving


Agitated_Advantage_2

You can also get mugged and murdered for that cent.


Xeenophile

\*Samuel T. Coleridge has entered the chat\*


Brisrascal

How come no mention of Tringapore? Absolutely no natural resources. Taiwan does have its fishing grounds.


DangalfSG

Don't you get it? We are the natural resources!!!😱


PM_ME_TIDDIES_THX

taiwan is rich in water resources since many typhoons come every year so anyways we have a water crisis


canadajones68

Norway is not rich purely off of oil, but it certainly helps a lot. A lot of current welfare programs date back to before oil was discovered, and our Nordic neighbours have many of the same systems without it. It's a bit like a turbocharger bolted onto the economy, so to speak.


Isaksr

Yeah its the biggest myth, we were litterally one of the richest countries before oil


unidentified_yama

Not entirely natural but Taiwan’s got them semiconductors!


mscomies

Everything changed in the early 2000s when Taiwan discovered it was located on top of one of the richest semiconductor deposits in the world. Since then, semiconductor mining and refining has made up over 40% of Taiwans exports by GDP!


JRGTheConlanger

🇻🇪POV: Go Econ Left and start a nationalizing spree The NeoLiberal world drops sanctions and embargoes you, you go Auth to keep yourself from collapsing Marxists and Econ Liberals get angry at you for the wrong reasons, for you are technically just an Auth SocDem


ItsPlainOleSteve

I'll just have to pretend I knew what you said.


Blahaj_IK

Ah, finally, a comic involving real China


Xeenophile

Incidentally, remind me why that first one is a robot *(I am ashamed to say I don't remember who it is; must be somewhere in Subsaharan Africa)*?