I don’t think the Merkel comparison is accurate - no one called her Leader, we called her the Chancellor (Kanzler), because that’s the job title. “Chancellor” is a pretty specific word in English with a narrower meaning and clearer connotation than “leader”, which can be used in a huge variety of contexts. The problem is that English doesn’t have a 1:1 translation of Fuehrer as we do with Kanzler, and “leader” is too generic versus Chancellor, Prime Minister, President, etc. Maybe “Supreme Leader” would work, but I haven’t seen that used often enough for it to stick.

We also use “Dalai Lama”, for example. Changing it to “leader” would lose a lot in translation. There’s a very long list of more problematic things with Musk and this ego project than this particular wording choice.

All governments are murderes and rapists, so unless you’re advocating for worldwide anarchy this is just whataboutism.

You’re broadly correct, with the important caveat that when the KMT fled to Taiwan, they didn’t relinquish their claim on the mainland. The KMT said “we’re the real government, the CCP is a usurper” and the CCP said “we won the war on the mainland, therefore Taiwan automatically belongs to us because… reasons”

This is futher complicated by the fact that when Japan relinquished Taiwan after WWII it was technically ceded to the RoC.

In any case, the government of Taiwan is technically the oldest of the two extant “Chinese” governments, so it makes no sense for the CCP to say that Taiwan needs to rejoin it.

“Return to China” doesn’t even make sense from a historical standpoint. Xi must have studied under the same history professor as Putin.

Great, more fascistic nonsense from Gen Z males. At least I can find solace in the fact that Gen Z women overwhelmingly reject this, so they won’t be able to procreate.