Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

[birdlikefood]

Better idea: Opium Wars III (Fentanyl edition): Revenge of the Qing

Although China has very high moral standards and self-discipline in "anti-drug", they are not forever "philanthropists". Even if the Chinese government's attitude changes from "philanthropists" to "don't do evil", It will also greatly affect the effectiveness of the US "anti-drug" operation.

 

[Overbom]

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Such a situation in the Taiwan Straits has become clearer - every time the US and Taiwan collude and provoke, Chinese mainland's actual control over the Taiwan island will be strengthened, and the reunification process will be advanced one step forward. Since Pelosi's
Taiwan visit has seriously violated the one-China principle and maliciously violated China's sovereignty, with egregious nature, the intensity of our countermeasures is unprecedented.

The PLA military exercises, described as a "blockade of the island" by island's media, are particularly groundbreaking. To some extent, the comprehensive work to strike "Taiwan independence" and promote reunification has entered a new stage. The risk hanging above the head of the Taiwan secessionists has been greatly increased, and the space for their future actions will be further compressed. Our anti-access and area denial ability has also been put into practice.

All of these are real. Pelosi persisted in visiting the island of Taiwan, and the signal sent by the Chinese mainland could not be clearer: These countermeasures are just the beginning, if the collusion between the US and Taiwan doesn't stop.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

I am not sure the CPC would be able to stifle the domestic outburst if Taiwan declared independence with zero consequences. I think in such a scenario China would have no choice but to go to war.

It is illegal to not use force per 2005 Anti Secession Law.

 

[sunnymaxi]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1555086857100075009

Asia thoroughly rejected US provocations and Most have explicitly affirmed their commitment to One-China in their statements on the crisis..

 

[Barefoot]

Surely no US war against China is going to be about occupying and overthrowing the government (i just watched the Tucker Carlson clip), rather it is about stopping China's rise to be number one, to put an end to the belt and road thing. It is about containment, right? It can look like a military defeat for the USA in the area around China (Taiwan unification and so on will be a pyrrhic victory for China) but if China ends up contained and the USA continues to 'rule the waves', it is a victory for the Anglo-Saxons, right?

Just as the war in Ukraine was never about a Ukrainian victory and a march by the fascists on Moscow, rather it is about tying Russia up in knots whilst the attack on China gets underway, isnt it?

We are all on the same page here, arent we?


ps i think a full on Iran/Israel war is part of the plan, too.

pps sorry, just felt the need to test my level of sanity

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

There was a time when those Cheng Kung Class ships could take on the entire PLA Navy. Incredible how much has changed in just 20 years

LMAO no.

 

[sunnymaxi]

PLAAF Su-30MKK and Taiwan island. Today's report by Taiwanese MOD.

PLA never been so close to Taiwan. damn

 

[jwnz]

Surely no US war against China is going to be about occupying and overthrowing the government (i just watched the Tucker Carlson clip), rather it is about stopping China's rise to be number one, to put an end to the belt and road thing. It is about containment, right? It can look like a military defeat for the USA in the area around China (Taiwan unification and so on will be a pyrrhic victory for China) but if China ends up contained and the USA continues to 'rule the waves', it is a victory for the Anglo-Saxons, right?

Just as the war in Ukraine was never about a Ukrainian victory and a march by the fascists on Moscow, rather it is about tying Russia up in knots whilst the attack on China gets underway, isnt it?

We are all on the same page here, arent we?

How would the US contain China by losing a war against China over Taiwan? With the help from Russia and countries in central Asia, China would be able to get materials to sustain the war and beyond. Also a blockade of China by the US will be far from a certain success. With the manufacturing capacity of China, a blockade would likely hurt the US and her allies more than China and her allies.

So I don't think we are on the same page here, sorry.

 

[Sardaukar20]

Would you mind sharing where you got this from? As a data scientist, I was curious about the actual parameters and characteristics of the poll, especially since it was an online poll from a group like Yahoo - however I can't find the Global Times page (english page or huanqiu, and I even checked news.cn!) with it, and I spent a good 20-30 minutes looking around on Yahoo Taiwan, and a site that commonly does for Yahoo in CN - CENA - but the closest I ended up finding was this similar poll

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I even tried reverse image searching, but got nothing.

It came from the Global Times live announcement:

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I too could not verify the credibility of that statistic. There was no details about the sample group. So I posted it as more of a light hearted statistic.

 

[Barefoot]

How would the US contain China by losing a war against China over Taiwan? With the help from Russia and countries in central Asia, China would be able to get materials to sustain the war. Also a blockade of China by the US will be far from a certain success. With the manufacturing capacity of China, a blockade would likely hurt the US and her allies more than China and her allies.

So I don't think we are on the same page here, sorry.

Of course it is far from certain.

But what is absolutely certain is that if the USA does nothing then China will be number one.

The USA has to fight or lose its position (or share, but that is not in its nature, imo)

Any war can go on for one hundred years for all the Anglo-Saxons care (there have been 100 years wars before).

The USA doesn't even care about its own people, just look at the approach to Covid by the USA and the China - the USA simply does not care (sure they say some things every now and then, but there are personality types that spew out all kinds of verbal diarrhoea).