What about flights between other Chinese cities and Taiwan? Like Hong Kong-Taipei, which are one of the more popular routes, for example.
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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Sanctioning China worse than Russia? Don’t write checks your power can’t cash.
This is why China should just STFU and triple it's nuke stockpile or defence. If you wanna play drug-dealer as "revenge" against US, you already lost the game.
Europe would be dead then. No energy and no consumer goods. Maybe it will reduce green house gas emission by a lot so I guess Mother Earth would appreciate it.
Not really. If the Chinese does not give a nasty response (regardless of its type) to the US, then the EU has nothing to fear. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if more and more EU officials announce that they will go to Taiwan if the condition I mentioned isn’t met. This essentially would legitimize Taiwan as an international entity, which is one step closer to being recognized as a nation.
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Seems like many posters are getting overly emotional, painting these stark choices between shooting down Pelosi's plane or face domestic unrest.
It reminds me of the HK riots, when emotions ran equally high. Like the riots have shown though, the Chinese government has a far better handle of the situation than we can imagine.
It reminds me of the HK riots, when emotions ran equally high. Like the riots have shown though, the Chinese government has a far better handle of the situation than we can imagine.
I already suggested this:
I am just saying there are also more covert ways to make them feel the pain. Nothing is off limits. I do not see the downsides to secretly supporting the import of fentanyl to the US. You get to cripple american youth and boost the domestic chinese economy at the same time. There are no downsides.
Regarding warheads, China has never divulged how many they have, the only certainty is that they exist, they'll not be used first in a war, everything else about the arsenal is deliberately kept ambiguous.
The only public estimate is from western state media sources that have a vested interest in spreading fake news, basing it off some Chinese politician who once said they had hundreds of active nukes, without elaborating on what he meant with active or even if that was an important official at all.
So, your claim is wrong. Its especially wrong when you consider that there should be around 20 DF41s at the absolute least, which have 10 warheads each. And most (almost all even) of the Chinese arsenal is on legacy platforms such as the DF5A, not ultra modern DF41s.
maybe china really is reluctant but ready for war right now, but I find it quite incredible how taiwan completely removed itself from the equation, and now matters are solely between washington and beijing
after the ukraine conflict I thought "well, the usa is not gonna go to war against china for taiwan, they didn't against russia for ukraine, at least not openly"; but they managed to come up with a situation that at best erodes the once china policy and makes china take some kind of an L while at worst creates a causus belli for them to directly intervene
after the ukraine conflict I thought "well, the usa is not gonna go to war against china for taiwan, they didn't against russia for ukraine, at least not openly"; but they managed to come up with a situation that at best erodes the once china policy and makes china take some kind of an L while at worst creates a causus belli for them to directly intervene
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