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China firmly supports Cuba in safeguarding national sovereignty, dignity - Global Times
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Taiwan isn't a former vassal state, it was and, according to both the PRC and ROC, still is, a part of a single unified china. Taiwan (the republic of china) still lays claim to mainland china, and in fact iirc to land outside of PRC territory that the PRC conceded between the end of the civil war and today. So that's one difference.
More importantly though, China isn't currently blockading taiwan and threatening to kidnap their politicians or send in ground troops. Like, even if you think Cuba and Taiwan are exactly the same... The actual situation is, clearly, vastly different. Taiwan is one of the SEA tigers because China hasn't been waging economic warfare against them. Cuba is extremely poor because America has. Taiwan isn't currently undergoing rolling blackouts and an inability to respond to medical and other emergencies due to a worrying heightening of Chinese economic warfare against them. Cuba is. Xi Jinping has not said that he intends to kidnap senior figures within Taiwan. Trump has in fact said that about Cuban figures. Xi Jinping has also not threatened to invade Taiwan complete with moving forces into the region. Trump has done those things. I doubt many people here would be happy about china immiserating the Taiwanese people, destroying their economy, or threatening to remove their leaders and invade them militarily, but those things are not happening, even if you think it's only a matter of time before the big spoopy socialists do all of those things... They still aren't, and there's no really good reason to think they plan to.
We aren't complaining about the actions China is taking against Taiwan because, well, they aren't. If I am wrong I would love to hear what actual, provable, aggressive or violent actions China has taken against Taiwan that are even vaguely comparable to the American confrontation with Cuba. Until then you are just punching left because you take lazy propaganda from literal fascists at face value.
China does however operate an extraterritorial Torture Prison on Taiwan oh wait sorry that's Gitmo