Excellent, I never thought about it that way. In the Western media, Ukraine is compared to Taiwan and Russia to China - not Ukraine to China and Donbas to Taiwan. But, as you said, there is one major inconsistency in the narrative about "pro Russian separatists": the REASON WHY they decided to remove themselves from Ukraine, although there are as many Ukrainians in Donbas as there are Russians and also all kinds of mixed ethnicities. The Western narrative always gives one "reason": They are simply depraved in that they irrationally love Russia! It is of course an attempt to bury the question about the real reason and to dehumanize the entire population. Where Taiwan or Hong Kong or Catalonia are heroes of independence - Donbas or Palestinian people are "terrorists".