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Blackstone said:

Taiwan Province is better off building more submarines than LHDs or any large surface combatant. Those people have no chance to repel any real invasion, but they could make things more expensive for the Mainland, and maintain the illusion of deterrence for a few more years.

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And they need to be smaller submarines, too.

Well, I suppose there's no law against optimism.

What an impressive display of Taiwan Province's military power. I'm convinced those people could defend themselves against unification by military force, and it's time for US to walk clear of the Chinese civil war.

Equation said:

I highly doubt it. I remember a few years back they Taiwan regime coast guard couldn't even deal with a Filipino coast guard killing of the fishermen.

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Taiwan has plenty of tools to deal with Philippines killing of Taiwanese fisherman, and it dealt with a nasty situation effectively. Least we forget, Taiwan's province security forces outclass Philippines' navy and coast guard by quite a margin. Taiwan was in the catbird seat in three ways. First, it could make short work of Philippine's maritime forces if it came down to it. Second, US could step in and press the Phillipines to satisfy Taiwan for the unprovoked killing. And third, if all else fails, the PRC could stare down the Filipinos, because what belongs to Taiwan Province belongs to China.

The ONLY reason why the Taiwan regime army exist is because the US and CIA are arming them so that they could use it as a wedge against China.

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No, not the "ONLY" reason, things are more complicated than that. There are about four generations (80+ years) of Americans of KMT parentage with powerful political and media allies that have successfully lobbied Washington to support it over the PRC. Couple that with America's own interests in Asia, and you have deeply entrenched support for RoC over PRC, even though US doesn't actually 'recognize' the Republic of China. Taiwan's recent transformation into a true democracy, plus the reemergence of China as by far the strongest Asian power, with clear intention to displace the United States as leader of Asia, also feed into American strategic calculations to support Taiwan.

On the other hand, politics and facts on the ground are quickly changing on the Taiwan question, and I suspect the will be less prominent going forward.

Equation said:

I agreed but a lot of them has been brain washed by religious institutions and refused to believe in anything but that "communism" are evil therefore they must do whatever they can in their "godly" duty to fight it. These people mental capacity are like ISIS. They don't care about real history or reality.

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I don't agree with you, but I'm OK with what you said, except the next to the last sentence. That's over the line, and you should take a quiet moment to reflect on it.

Guys this is a military thread, stop with this all of this political talk. I agree about not need large LHD's and smaller submarines, and a lot of them.

Blackstone said:

Taiwan Province is better off building more submarines than LHDs or any large surface combatant. Those people have no chance to repel any real invasion, but they could make things more expensive for the Mainland, and maintain the illusion of deterrence for a few more years.

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Taiwan has been making plans to build submarines themselves after plans to buy more than the two Dutch submarines it received in the '80's fell through because of Chinese pressure on the Netherlands while China's nominal GDP was on the same order as the Dutch one. It was unable to buy the technology anywhere and it is unable to develop it. Also there has been huge advances in SSK technology in the mean time so your advise is misguided.

Panama cuts ties with Taiwan in favour of China

Not surprising, The Chinese have been making a major investment in the Panama Canal of late.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

Not surprising, The Chinese have been making a major investment in the Panama Canal of late.

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The not so subtle message to Governor Tsai and to the Greens is there's no future in any independence movement, not even with stealth tactics like 'Beijing should allow Taiwan more involvement in international organizations.' Keep an eye out for some of the remaining 20 or so nations to drop recognition of Taiwan as "China," because I suspect more are coming.