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Agnus

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Overbom said:
Very telling that he equates US stance on Taiwan with the commitment to Article 5 of Nato, South Korea and Japan.

Slam dunk admission by Biden here
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Don't think, this is part of ''grand plan'', it is more likely something he just blurred at the heat of the moment. Considering, he adds this,afterward, ''“Look, George, the idea that there’s a fundamental difference between Taiwan, South Korea, NATO.''.
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antiterror13

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siegecrossbow said:
It does make a pretty big dent in the budget though. 2 trillion dollars over 20 years average to about 100 billion dollars, or 1/7th of the US military budget, every year. Biden’s infrastructure bill is around 2 trillion dollars.
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True, but they didn't spend the same every year since 2001, in the last few years, the spending was much lower than $100B ... from my memory, like $10B. They did spend much more in the first 5 yrs of occupation
 
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Abominable

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Overbom said:
Very telling that he equates US stance on Taiwan with the commitment to Article 5 of Nato, South Korea and Japan.

Slam dunk admission by Biden here
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If America were to shift their policy with Taiwan, they would have made a big deal about it. It wouldn't be announced as an off hand comment on an unrelated subject matter.

This is more likely down to Biden's incompetence.
 
bajingan

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Bellum_Romanum said:
He had to make that statement regarding Taiwan to ease off the political bleeding that's being done to his name and his party's standing since the midterm election is fast approaching. Not to mention that covid-19 is ravaging his country with more and more Americans being divided with respect to mask wearing and all that jazz. Biden is a political animal first and foremost, and if China reacts negatively which inevitably they will and must from Biden's latest false bravado so be it. But China's reaction is what exactly what the Biden's political advisors are banking on to steer the weakening resolve of the milk tea alliance in Asia and the increasingly nervous pansy Europeans back into the America is back fold, It's all politics. But if I was China, I will call his latest provocative pronouncements bluff and go all in because the longer it waits the more the QUAD and all of America's allies strengthens their planning and military capabilities against China's aims and objectives for Taiwan. Not to mention that Japan has pretty much all but declared in formality that it will fight China and is already itching for a fight and readying itself for the eventuality, so why wait for your enemies to gather their strengths and plans against your core national interests?

As for the logical concerns of China not having sufficient numbers of X,Y,Z I don't think there has been a major military operation that any single country undertook where it had everything it needed be it materiale, resources, armaments, etc. You'd have to make do with what you have at your disposal because even if China arms itself to the point that they feel they are ready her enemies are not exactly staying or operating in stasis as we can all witness by the U.S. push to isolate China economically and politically a likely trend that's not going to be abated anytime soon most especially now that the U.S. has experienced it's most embarrassing defeat in quite sometime.

I would like to know why shouldn't the Chinese military take the military approach on Taiwan and when is the optimal approach (if there's even one) to take the military route in retaking the island of Taiwan.

Just my stupid opinion.
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I think China is preparing for all of those silos in Yunmen, Jilantai, Inner Mongolia to be filled with MIRVed DF-41, when thats done, no countries, quad, nato, japan will dare to interfere in taiwan reunification
 
horse

horse

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taxiya said:
What you said is what Genghis khan would do, not Mao and CPC.
  1. Mao let Dalai Lama to flee instead of capturing him in 1959.
  2. Mao also let Lin Bio to fly to USSR without shooting him down in 1971.
  3. Mao let more than 60 thousands of Chinese citizens to leave for USSR in 1962. Including two PLA major generals of Uighur and Kazakh ethnicity.
The reason is simple, Mao said "天要下雨，娘要嫁人，随他去吧". There is no point but only a headache to keep somebody who you can never win the heart of. And except in a battle, you can not simply kill them all in broad day light, let them go is the best for your rule.
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The previous head of state of Afghanistan fled the country taking with him all the money he could stuff into his cars which were put onto the plane.

Apparently he left $5 million USD in a bag on the tarmac. LOL!

The Americans froze all Afghan government funds not in Afghanistan, which is everything.

It is kind of funny, in a very deeply cynical way.

The Afghan bourgeoisie together with the imperialist looting the country, they are stealing from the people in of the poorest countries on earth.

This is intolerable. I am a rightist, and I cannot stand it!

It is time for Chairman Mao to launch the offensive and finish off the civil war, stop the looting, and put those resisters into re-education camp.

The less money the Taliban has, the more China of today has to give to them.

It is basically give to them, because other than growing opium, there are no other cash crops.

There is not enough food apparently too, and a lot of that food comes from India.

Is the new government really not going to have access their own airport, because their enemies have to be evacuated?

That is too much.

The new government is going to need humanitarian aid, and being landlocked, it has to come through that airport. Food, medicine, arriving by road through that area will take too long. Mao was a great military strategist. This is what we are looking at.

Chairman Mao still lives in my heart and mind. He will storm that airport for greater good of the country, and defeat the enemy combatants, and implement the re-education process.

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