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Mirabo

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plawolf said:
China is not rushing to spam amphibious assault assets right now because it doesn’t need them. China has literally been preparing for Taiwan for decades, and people honestly think they would only rush to procure the critical hardware they need just before they decide to actually pull the trigger on reunification?!

China has had the means to retake Taiwan by force for many years now, even with direct American military intervention. Everything since had been about reducing the cost of such an invasion for China and the PLA in terms of lives lost and damage sustained to wider infrastructure.

You will also have to be a fool to think any American direct military involvement will be able saving Taiwan rather than trying to trash China’s economic heartland of its eastern coast. If they can save Taiwan, that will be a bonus, but their primary aim going in will be to destroy critical infrastructure and key factories, both military and civilian. That is honestly the bigger threat. Because while China currently can quite feasibly obliterate the US surface fleet with its AShBMs, hypersonic missiles and vast array of conventional AShMs, USN SSGNs spamming cruise missiles at Chinese civilian targets will be harder to counter given the vast Chinese coastline makes it impossible to effectively defend all approaches.
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I've noticed that many buildings in China are built with air raid selters. Residential estates, commercial buildings, office buildings, apartment complexes... every structure that has an underground level will have double function as a reinforced shelter. This is a feature of every coastal city I have been to. I don't know about inland cities as I rarely visit them.

Someone I know just opened a new building in Zhuhai. Just a low-level building with an underground car park, but the plot was small, so they dug four levels deep to fit enough parking spaces. The lowest level was designated to be the shelter in the event of armed conflict. I asked if the shelter was mandatory, and if it was built differently from the other levels.

He told me that these shelters are actually required by law, and that there were specifications they had to follow. The ceiling must be XX meters of reinforced concrete, it must have independent water supply, independent air supply to the surface, special storage areas for food and rations, drainage channels for wastewater...

I have never seen this kind of large scale contingency planning in any other country, and I have visited many places around the world. As usual, the Chinese government is competent enough to prepare for the worst.
 
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voyager1

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The bipartisan call has come from a committee examining a bill from independent senator Rex Patrick, calling for a ban on goods from China's Xinjiang province where human rights groups say there's credible evidence of mass human rights abuses.
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The report says Australian Border Force would be able to immediately block specific products that have a particularly high risk of being associated with forced labour — such as cotton from Xinjiang.
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You know that Australia is always the first to signal western moves. Expect the US to soon follow this policy
 
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Higgle said:
Somewhat off-topic but on the point of reducing civilian casualties -

I've noticed that many buildings in China are built with air raid selters. Residential estates, commercial buildings, office buildings, apartment complexes... every structure that has an underground level will have double function as a reinforced shelter. This is a feature of every coastal city I have been to. I don't know about inland cities as I rarely visit them.

Someone I know just opened a new building in Zhuhai. Just a low-level building with an underground car park, but the plot was small, so they dug four levels deep to fit enough parking spaces. The lowest level was designated to be the shelter in the event of armed conflict. I asked if the shelter was mandatory, and if it was built differently from the other levels.

He told me that these shelters are actually required by law, and that there were specifications they had to follow. The ceiling must be XX meters of reinforced concrete, it must have independent water supply, independent air supply to the surface, special storage areas for food and rations, drainage channels for wastewater...

I have never seen this kind of large scale contingency planning in any other country, and I have visited many places around the world. As usual, the Chinese government is competent enough to prepare for the worst.
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China is dead serious about the possibility of nuclear war. My grandfather who was a manager in a machine plant in Shanghai back in the days lead half the factory to go into the middle of mountains in Anhui to build a second secluded factory away from Shanghai to serve as back up in the event of nuclear war. They made among other things optical back up sights (gun-laying usually done by radar guidance) for anti-aircraft artillery.

My parents in fact meet that way at the 2nd factory. They did factory building instead of Down to the Countryside Movement.
 
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duncanidaho

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voyager1 said:
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You know that Australia is always the first to signal western moves. Expect the US to soon follow this policy
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China should ship all their mined rare earth to Xinjiang for further processing and hire some uyghur miners or better sent some attendant of the vocational schools in Xinjiang to their mine in Inner Mongolia and make this Infromation as public as possible, then i want to see how the western countries will ban their companies from buying chinese rare earth!
 
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Aniah

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duncanidaho said:
China should ship all their mined rare earth to Xinjiang for further processing and hire some uyghur miners or better sent some attendant of the vocational schools in Xinjiang to their mine in Inner Mongolia and make this Infromation as public as possible, then i want to see how the western countries will ban their companies from buying chinese rare earth!
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You're a bloody genius. We give those people jobs and a direct middle finger to the west. 2 birds one stone.
 
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Aniah

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You know that Australia is always the first to signal western moves. Expect the US to soon follow this policy
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I'm waiting for more tariffs to happen against them soon. The more their economy takes a dive the better. I don't even pity them because the general populace there is also seeing eye to eye with their government's anti-China stance.
 
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