Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

[BlackWindMnt]

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China announces 3 days of military exercises in the highlighted areas, from 8/4 12pm to 8/7 12pm.

It might be an interesting week after all.

 

[Jat]

Don't get me wrong, this is still a stupid and irresponsible stunt that Pelosi pulled. And in a few months any good publicity this stunt has generated will evaporate as the looming midterms approach.

However, SPAR19 will be remembered for a long time within China, like 81192, Yinhe, and Embassy bombing.

Am an Indian and not her follower or anything. Two points. She is bold and gutsy, no doubt about it. Second as I said in my earliest post, China is no where ready to take on the US militarily.

The Chinese posters here are generally quite arrogant, and forget that the US has been numero uno since 1945. And the pronouncements by the Chinese official spokespersons only made things worse. It will take time to reach a truly multi-polar world.

For those like me sitting out and watching, it was a nice, tense, entertaining drama. And the best thing about it, no lives were lost.

 

[Equation]

They undoubtedly believe that they can go to Taiwan whenever they want, no matter what the mainland authorities think.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1554482288309706752

But the US is shaking in their boots waiting for the consequences of their actions. Time to pay the Piper.

 

[BoraTas]

I am repeating. China never pledged to do anything to Pelosi's aircraft. It is far far too early to make an analysis. People are using jingoistic phrases all over the place because China didn't do something it never pledged to do in the first place. Then we have people cursing at each other. We have people talking about a Russian-Finnish war...

All of these extremely emotional responses especially from all of these "just hatched"s and "new member"s tell me it's time to log off for a day or so. This thread became Twitter-like. If I was a mod I'd lock the thread temporarily.

 

[Overbom]

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China announces 3 days of military exercises in the highlighted areas, from 8/4 12pm to 8/7 12pm.

Where is the source?

Edit: Nevermind, just saw your other message.

 

[han1289]

What’s disappointing is that the national media implicitly let the citizens and social media users stir up a frenzy only to let it fizzle. If the CCP had a calm, calculated response, why bother getting on this horse?

 

[PanAsian]

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That looks like it could easily turn into a "special military operation"

@Patchwork_Chimera would you be able to share your take on this?

 

[tankphobia]

They undoubtedly believe that they can go to Taiwan whenever they want, no matter what the mainland authorities think.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1554482288309706752

Well yeah, did China not just prove that? What they did to protest against it militarily is even less than the usual flying planes into the ADIZ.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

No attempted interception shows low readiness of the PLAAF. They were not prepared for the path her plane took. If they anticipated passing over the SCS, or going down north from Japan, which is what it looked like with the CBG deployments, then they have failed.

Going from east side of Taiwan was more difficult but what should have happened were fighters in the air with refuelers nearby covering the entry path.

This is a major humiliation for the PLA. It shows that either morale or readiness is at a bottom.

 

[memfisa]

Am an Indian and not her follower or anything. Two points. She is bold and gutsy, no doubt about it. Second as I said in my earliest post, China is no where ready to take on the US militarily.

The Chinese posters here are generally quite arrogant, and forget that the US has been numero uno since 1945. And the pronouncements by the Chinese official spokespersons only made things worse. It will take time to reach a truly multi-polar world.

For those like me sitting out and watching, it was a nice, tense, entertaining drama. And the best thing about it, no lives were lost.

The only thing entertaining or dramatic about this was reading the silly comments here.

The internet has really destroyed the human brain