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[Hendrik_2000]

In reality, war games are often designed to be challenging for one's own side in order to highlight weaknesses and strengthen capabilities. However, if you look at the gross strategic background, Taiwan is either incredibly dangerous to China or incredibly indefensible. It's one or the other; it can't be defended without threatening to bomb through the entire PLA, and if it can't be defended, it's effectively lost.

As I've said with India, the Americans (the Americans properly in this situation) will always make the correct choice, but not before exhausting all the other options. They're just exploring the other options now.

They can explore all their option but the fact is Taiwan only less than 150 km from china. And all those Taiwan base will be rained with missile. Considering the accuracy of chinese rocket they might not need to use the expensive missile cheap rocket will do
And those bases in Japan and Korea will not be spared either

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[AssassinsMace]

Do Chinese still drink wine with Coca-Cola? That tells me Chinese should stop perpetuating an industry Westerners hold up as important. I've read that some Chinese wines are getting good but because it's from China's they will never be seen as "good" wine. It's the same with caviar. I also read that Chinese caviar has become top-notch but because it's from China, individuals consumers aren't looking to buy it. Chinese caviar is good enough where high-end restaurants in the Western world buy it because it's not as expensive as the more traditional reputable sources but they don't advertise it to their customers because it's the restaurants' reputation is what saves it. Two
industries that are 100% controlled by the opinions of Westerners only and not because it's a good wine or caviar. It's embarrassing that wine is argued over in international trade. Nails are important in the world. Nails are probably are a bigger industry than wine. Do people talk about it? If Chinese people enjoy wine...whatever. But if they just want to get into this hoping to be seen as up there with the Western elite... they're wasting time because you'll have to sign your soul away to the devil and then you find out the devil cheated you by giving up your soul for free and you end up not getting what you wanted.

 

[solarz]

Do Chinese still drink wine with Coca-Cola? That tells me Chinese should stop perpetuating an industry Westerners hold up as important. I've read that some Chinese wines are getting good but because it's from China's they will never be seen as "good" wine. It's the same with caviar. I also read that Chinese caviar has become top-notch but because it's from China, individuals consumers aren't looking to buy it. Chinese caviar is good enough where high-end restaurants in the Western world buy it because it's not as expensive as the more traditional reputable sources but they don't advertise it to their customers because it's the restaurants' reputation is what saves it. Two
industries that are 100% controlled by the opinions of Westerners only and not because it's a good wine or caviar. It's embarrassing that wine is argued over in international trade. Nails are important in the world. Nails are probably are a bigger industry than wine. Do people talk about it? If Chinese people enjoy wine...whatever. But if they just want to get into this hoping to be seen as up there with the Western elite... they're wasting time because you'll have to sign your soul away to the devil and then you find out the devil cheated you by giving up your soul for free and you end up not getting what you wanted.

Wine is a luxury commodity and those get all the attention. Unfortunately, there are still far too many Chinese who think being "high society" means imitating Western culture. It doesn't help that this trope is ubiquitous in Chinese TV shows.

 

[j17wang]

Wine is a luxury commodity and those get all the attention. Unfortunately, there are still far too many Chinese who think being "high society" means imitating Western culture. It doesn't help that this trope is ubiquitous in Chinese TV shows.

I find it annoying as well. The chinese people that try to imitate western "high society" the most do it so poorly they should be mocked. Classic example is the nuveau riche who hold a wine glass by the stem instead of the bowl and overfilling the glass past the widest point.

The people that dont try as hard to imitate western society usually will still educate themselves on why the glass is held a way, how a pour is done, and how much to fill.

Understand and then do, never do but don't understand.

 

[daifo]

The BBC.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1419973286159601665

Well if you didn't BS do much. People might not think do negative of you. You can't put this on the Chinese government.

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BBC endangers the lives of Chinese and Asians worldwide with their bias and racist reporting.

 

[Inst]

Please cite any examples showing or showcasing any semblance of this "correct choice" you wrote. I am intellectually curious as to what those example actually are.

It's a quip from Churchill. Vietnam is an example; under the circumstances and constraints put out (inability to march into Hanoi), the Americans couldn't win and should have gotten out. Two decades, billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of American lives later, they got out. They were simply exploring all the other options before they made the correct choice.

As a large country and the Earth's preeminent economic power, the Americans could afford to do so without completely destroying themselves.

 

[B.I.B.]

I find it annoying as well. The chinese people that try to imitate western "high society" the most do it so poorly they should be mocked. Classic example is the nuveau riche who hold a wine glass by the stem instead of the bowl and overfilling the glass past the widest point.

The people that dont try as hard to imitate western society usually will still educate themselves on why the glass is held a way, how a pour is done, and how much to fill.

Understand and then do, never do but don't understand.

I drink wine occasionally and pay anything from $10 to $65 dollars a bottle.However I can't be bothered drinking it from a glass and mostly use a coffee mug or a small glass peanut butter jar.
Nothing wrong with adding coke to wine. I occasionally add 7up and brandy to my cheap chilled reds.

 

[antiterror13]

Ooh, I'm intrieged. Got any information on this?

I believe the wine is from Xinjiang, thats why the "West" is so hot of so called slave labour there

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[DarkStar]

I find it annoying as well. The chinese people that try to imitate western "high society" the most do it so poorly they should be mocked. Classic example is the nuveau riche who hold a wine glass by the stem instead of the bowl and overfilling the glass past the widest point.

but i thought you're supposed to hold the wine glass by the stem so your body heat from your hand doesn't warm up the wine

Anyway, i'm laughing at the wine trade war cuz it's cheaper Penfolds for me in oz due to oversupply.

 

[emblem21]

This is not about who is begging who or who has the upper hand.

Those three bottom lines demanded by Wang Yi to Sherman is China declaring a new Cold War or more like a cold peace.

There will be no negotiations on anything, unless the three bottom lines are met.

By feeling is that China just boxed America into a losing strategy.

America wants to influence China's trajectory.

Having no negotiations, and after the trade war and the current tech war, that means it makes it even harder for the America to influence China's trajectory and increasing influence.

After these new demands of the three bottom lines, the only way America can win is for China to disappear off the face of the flat earth.

China wins if it continues being current day China.

With the way things are going now, Russia and China are slowly preparing for a new era that regardless of approach, the USA is not going to be able to continue its childish approach around the world forever and will be relegated to the same position that the UK is in now. Somehow, I believe that China has plans that if the USA tries to use its final option, the China will demonstrate how pointless it is and put a final end to this madness once and for all be ensuring that the USA cannot rise again. Otherwise, why would China make these demands right now if they didn't have a few surprises in store that now one in he world knows about.