China already is the bad guy. If it does nothing then it would just be a weak bad guy.
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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China already is the bad guy. If it does nothing then it would just be a weak bad guy.
That's so empty and shallow.
Chinese Government, and by extension, entire Chinese citizenry, are not your servants.
They don't serve your so-called capital L Logic, whatever that is.
Taking Kinmen, Lianjiang and Penghu is defintely an assymetric option, which could be better because it doesn't cause direct risk of conflict with USA.
Then again, who says US will go to war over 1 dead Pelosi if she flew over someone else's territory and was warned several times to leave? US people are willing to be conscripted into the largest war ever seen just because 1 idiot didn't obey instructions? In a time era where people are standing in bread lines and the economy is diving?
Then again, who says US will go to war over 1 dead Pelosi if she flew over someone else's territory and was warned several times to leave? US people are willing to be conscripted into the largest war ever seen just because 1 idiot didn't obey instructions? In a time era where people are standing in bread lines and the economy is diving?
But while all you said is true, that doesn't mean all of that actions would not have been met with an equal or greater reaction from the west led by the U.S. noting that nothing China does post 2012 would be seen or interpreted as innocent or a right for the country to develop it's defence, it's economy, trade etc...Heck the Chinese goal of Made in China 2025/BRI trade expansion precipitated an unprecedented action from America that led to the trade, economic, tech war that's been exacted against China with it's measly 1.5% of defense spending.
What data do you guys have to support the assertion that if only China had explicitly issued a raise in defense spending to 3-5% that such proclamation wouldn't have pushed an even greater escalation from her enemies?
Regardless of strategy employed by China, her enemies do get a vote with their every action and that's just the reality of geopolitics.
Defense spending was never a part of my posts in this entire thread, but I'll give you on that point to some extent, given the unfolding events.
And how exactly do you definitely know about "starting a war you won't win"? You went up a hill and talked to a voice?
I wouldn't talk on behalf of the Chinese government if I were you, they're very Logical with a capital L. They're not hyperventilating like hormonal teenagers like a lot of the supposed adults in this thread are doing. They have an excellent idea what the balance of power is today and what they need to do to get it where it needs to be. They're not going to let some fading power's antics deviate China's rise one iota.
You and the other emotional simpletons here can watch "Where on Earth is
If you think China is ready today to expel the US from the western Pacific at acceptable military and economic cost and impose a peace favourable to itself on the US, then it isn't me hearing voices in his head.
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