Cold War against China?
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Why the bolded phrase?
As if that's ajustification for such behavior from PLAF pilots because those incidents are close to China when it is not the main issue here. I don't recall US interceptors doing such maneuvers to Tu-95s near US airspace. Besides, the East and South China seas also include airspaces of countries that have signed to be under US protection.
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New DoD report is out.
China weighs options to blunt U.S. sanctions in a Taiwan conflict
https://www.reuters.com/article/china-taiwan-sanctions-idTRNIKBN31K04U
Coincidence? I think not, especially in the wake of that Xi/Putin summit.
Anyone watch this? Care to share your thoughts?
Silly wording aside, I cannot say I'm surprised in the wake of the confirmed espionage cases involving 2 Chinese-born sailors in the US Navy and, God knows, how many others under investigation across English-speaking armed forces.
Unprofessional, dumb, reckless, you name it.
For those who may not be familiar with the process of intercepting a foreign military plane, this is how US fighter jets conduct an interception on a Tu-95 (don't mind the stupid thumbnail though). The notion of safe distance exists for a reason and you don't fly underneath the plane to intercept.
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Thought about leaving this here.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67282107.amp
Ah yes, just what we need now, a third front in our proxy wars across the world.
Ah yes, just what we need now, a third front in our proxy wars across the world.
The US (and the west) have to protect Taiwan at the moment. The mistake was made years ago to allow 60% of the worlds CPU's and 90% of advanced ones to be manufactured in a single country. I think the US have realised the mistake hence building more local infrastructure, but it will be well over a decade before they're self sufficient.
What is your suggestion on Taiwan policy? Don't deliver them military aid?
There's nothing wrong with the policy of strategic ambiguity. Arming Taiwan, is just... how shall I put it... not going to end well for Taiwan.
After what happened in Ukraine and considering the serious risk for other US allies in the region (Japan, South Korea, Philippines, etc.), there is no way the US will make that same mistake of playing a shy game in Taiwan.
The Chinese aren't as stupid as you think. If Taiwan has enough anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles an invasion would result in the loss of almost all the Chinese navy and most of their airforce. They won't invade if it's made too difficult for them. They might if they're allowed to so easily.
It's not going to be a proxy war if Xi invades Taiwan, it will be WWIII.
It's taken for granted now that the US would intervene...but would they really?
Give it less than 10 years and Taiwan will willingly rejoin the mainland.
It's either intervene or lose everything they hold dear.
What? Taiwanese people are becoming more and more detached from China as the older generation who think of themselves Chinese die and the younger generation are strictly Taiwanese.
Most Taiwaneses I met are very anti-China.
However, they have some politicians or parties who don't mind the mainland or joining them, I think.
Maybe, but making money in a great economy is a hell of an incentive. The money and state backing that China is throwing at advanced chip manufacturing leads me to believe that the Taiwanese will start to butter their bread in a different way soon enough.
I admit that you most likely know way more than me concerning ground reality so I could very well be wrong.
This was what China tried for years until 2019, but what transpired in Hong Kong since then has basically killed any hope of Taiwan willingly joining China.
Anyway, I don't think the Chinese economy is doing well any more.
They would have to, it's not just about Taiwan, it's about US influence in South Asia, control of the Pacific Ocean, a challenge to US power and prestige - a massive shock to the global status quo. that is why this is so dangerous, and the prize for china must be so tempting. If china was successful, they would become pretty much undisputed leaders of the most populus and economically dynamic region on the planet. The US would have to intervene, for the sake of its own future.
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If it is right now, the US has no choice but to intervene. They have been encircling China and assuming that Taiwan survives the first few days of the assault, I think that US will then be able to handle China. All they need to do is to block China’s oil tankers, which should be relatively easy to do with US bases in Philipphines, Japan, South Korea. Block Malacca strain and you block China’s oil.
Right now, Taiwan is too important for the US to fail. Might not be the case 10 years from now though, which is why Taiwan should either arm themselves to teeth or start looking for soft unification.
For China it is though a quite hard decision to make. They will be far more powerful in 10 years, but the US will have even more bases in Asia shifting the war in the US favor.
The Chinese government might be entirely different in 10 years. If I were Taiwan I'd tool up and wait it out.
It is a good read..
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/china/china-xi-jinping-world-order-intl-hnk/index.html
..until I remember what he is doing to some his border countries around including, my own.
Not that I would oppose the idea of what he is saying happening.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/china/china-xi-jinping-world-order-intl-hnk/index.html
..until I remember what he is doing to some his border countries around including, my own.
Not that I would oppose the idea of what he is saying happening.
Russia - Ukraine conflict, Israel - Palestine conflict...Next in line around 2027 China - Taiwan (with trump as US president). Military complex is hungry, and the global economy needs to be fecked to increase disparities
On the margins of the APEC summit in SanFran. I have to say it is comical to see a feisty emperor cosplayer getting the better hand (and I'm purposefully going mild here) over the communist. 