>Chinese troops should "put all [their] minds and energy on preparing for war," President Xi Jinping said Tuesday during a visit to a Guandong military base.
>Xi's remarks came the day after the White House said it will sell three advanced weapons systems to Taiwan, which Beijing considers part of the People's Republic of China.
If China decides to invade Taiwan and the U.S. contests it, there is a possibility this turns into a skirmish (or worse) between two superpowers. The U.S. just sailed a destroyer through the Taiwan Strait—we’re sending the message that we may or may not get directly involved. At least to me, our strategic commitment to Taiwan is currently ambiguous and difficult to gauge. What are your thoughts and predictions, anons? More broadly, do you think China is truly committed to an imminent Invasion of Taiwan? Or is this just posturing and gunboat diplomacy, in an effort to take a somewhat softer approach in bringing Taiwan more heavily under China’s influence?
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Could Taiwan be the geopolitical chess piece that kicks off a Chinese-American war?
already debunked
Elaborate.
by a wink and a nudge from a Jew.
Why was this even a thing? Isn't pretty much every military always preparing for war? That's their purpose.
*Chinese Taipei
Indeed. The difference is that the global community really isn’t sure if China is seriously preparing for an Invasion or not this time.
This time we wipe out the judeo-commie menace once and for all.
the Chinese want in on the "standby" meme
you mean taiwan user.... agreed they sponge off America with almost no military waiting for you dumb americans to go die for them.
Kek, they don’t stand a chance—these people reinforce their concrete with styrofoam. The U.S. could beat them in a week.
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It's a shit joke because a couple of shills kept spamming that shit in threads.
*Republic of China
If we don't come to Taiwan's defense after decades of this shit it's literally over for America on the global stage. Japan, Korea, and the rest of Asia would be wise to start putting more effort into their own militaries and cooperating to keep China from stomping all over them because I'm pretty sure the US is going to bitch out if China does anything to Taiwan.
Oh. And here I was hoping we’d get some serious conjecture and conversation on what may or may not be about to play out in the Asia Pacific. I guess this is just another topic drowned out by the latest and juiciest clusterfuck in American domestic politics.
Not really gonna happen. The second China starts a war the west will just stop trading with them, a simple blockade of their oil shipments from the middle-east would cripple them. Without food from the US and energy from the middle-east the country would collapse in an instant lol. China is barely a regional power, far from a super power.
Not the same situation. Unlike Japan and South Korea, the U.S. has no troops in Taiwan and Taiwan doesn’t serve as a direct extension of U.S. hard power in Asia. But yes, if the U.S. doesn’t contest an invasion of Taiwan in any meaningful way, it will signal to the world that the status quo in Asia has markedly changed.
I might also add. China's militarism and sabre rattling is only to raise internal loyalty and nationalism because they fear their own citizens more than anything. The second economic growth stops they are in grave danger. With a one party system, the only way to change the party is to overthrow it. China is preparing for some very bad times internally, and are praying they can just remain one country.
China won't invade Taiwan that easily because its not like the Russian invasion of Crimea, the US would totally declare a World War on them or cubanize the country.
The acts of CCP so far is to borrow time, the fear is that a significant number of expats chinese returns with the truth about the country and start to rebel. And i'm not talking about the rich ones, but the low to middle class ones who gets the opportunity to leave.
>Could Taiwan be the geopolitical chess piece that kicks off a Chinese-American war?
I fucking hope so. America and allies are getting weaker, China is getting stronger. The West only has a short window of opportunity to start and finish the inevitable war on our terms.
We need to do it now while we can still win.
>The second China starts a war the west will just stop trading with them
The U.S. might stop trading with them, though prices for commodities that we’ve long considered cheap would shoot up overnight. But the West, more broadly? I don’t see it. The U.S. can’t create unanimous international coalitions as effectively as we used to be able to. And even if we could, China is growing more powerful for the same reason we grew strong enough to rule the world in the 20th century—they have a massive manufacturing and industrial capability that dwarfs that of any other country. Everybody takes their imports from them en masse. If you’re anybody but America, what purpose would see in getting in that kind of spat with China over a tiny island off their coast?
>a simple blockade of their oil shipments from the middle-east would cripple them
That kicked off a hot war with Japan. Countries never stand by when they’re being blockaded.
a blockade is a straight up act of war, maybe you meant embargo?
Russia invaded Crimea because they knew the US leadership at that time wouldn’t do anything. If Biden wins, China will invade because Biden and Obama didn’t do shit over Crimea.
America should never go to war ever again except to protect Americans directly. The white male especially.
They’re on an exponential growth trend upwards, towards wealth. That keeps people sufficiently happy, regardless of other domestic issues. I don’t like the tactics they use to maintain control of their population or their rigid authoritarianism, but I think they’re fairly stable.
oh, what you mean to say your word is meaningless to every country you're in alliance with? bold move
China is already directly threatening America. If you can't see that, you're a turkey.
I don't think Taiwan's leadership is all that invested in reclaiming China or even ensuring national sovereignty outside of just waiting for them to ether collapse or invade and hopefully be useful enough to not be killed by them.
If there was any country that was in a position to utilize the full extent of modern fortification technology it would be Taiwan, The fact all their hard fortifications are 50+ years old is evidence of a lack of long term military investment.
Are you talking about ZOGmerica?
That's exactly what I'm saying. The second they go to war, they're going to be dealing with mass starvation, blackouts and insane gas prices. The country would collapse from inside.
Hell, India could do the blockade by itself, China doesn't have a sufficient blue water navy to do shit about it.
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Regardless of the outcome or potential U.S. involvement, do anons think China is preparing to imminently take Taiwan by military force? Haven’t seen much discussion on that topic.