Deployed within 2 minutes of host of PRC ordnance. This is the kind of expensive platforms US doesn't want TW to pursue because it's a money sink relative to insurgent porcupine capabilties - to the point of vetoing TW military purchase decisions that doesn't contribute to US vision/strategy for TW - one where TW fight like insurgents and get droned to dust. At the end of the day, it's about domestic politics, expensive high tech platforms provides politicians photo ops of a modern military that might have a chance to ignorant voters vs adopting strategy to convincing constituents to get slaughtered like Taliban. Ergo TW continusouly developing mid/high tier indigenous platforms while seeking to import other flashy weapons that won't survive the first hours of a cross-strait air campaign.
Taiwan to Deploy ‘Bee Eye’ Radars Near Chinese Mainland
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Re: Taiwan to Deploy ‘Bee Eye’ Radars Near Chinese Mainland
#92Unfortunately, China will likely attack Taiwan unless Russia is humiliated.
Nah, anyone who think China's ambition is Taiwan, is simply ignorant of the civilization's history. China has always been the central of the world order, pride herself on its superiority in all aspects of human society. Taiwan needs to be a showcase of superiority over the US represented system. This superiority could be demonstrated in many manner, not necessarily taking over the island. After all, one who eyes the…
This is a funny comment considering that Taiwan considers mainland China and Mongolia to be part of Taiwan/the Republic of China.
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#93China is always overstepping their bounds and needs to be checked by the superpowers of the world. Without checks and balances, they will continue to bully the neighboring countries by force and deception.
As a great power, does China need to keep Russia and America in check?
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it's also possibly the most emotional one for the Chinese. Large portions of the population support reunification Some of us have difficulties in understanding the mindset: if some population wants one system, and is unavailable to be part of a different system (they would have moved, would not they), how do those "reunification supporters" on the other side believe, psychologically, that a system change is imagina…
Reunification means that both side recognize that they're Chinese. Things like systems or ideology are not that important and can be worked out. They could have different governments. In fact a federation solution was proposed (and rejected) in the 80s. Furthermore, the Chinese sense of history is much longer. There are many examples in Chinese history in which some territory splitted off and then reunified later. So…
> that both side recognize that they're Chinese [...] But if they no longer claim to be part of the family
Don't they all consider themselves Han people? How do they configure their identity? Their ethnic and historical ties do not appear to be severable.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Claiming only 20% of the country is humiliating? I suppose they can fortify that and come back in 10 years and take the rest. Remember when Hannibal destroyed the Roman armies? That sure was humiliating. What happened next?
It is yes. Because their initial goal here was instead to go in and overthrow the government in a couple days, while not expecting any significant international response. There is a huge difference between their initial expectations, and what actually happened. And now they are in too deep to undo their mistakes.
I'll send you a $1,000 over Venmo or in Bitcoin if you can share where even a single top level Russian official said that amoung their goals was to take the capital.
Re: Taiwan to Deploy ‘Bee Eye’ Radars Near Chinese Mainland
#96Unfortunately, China will likely attack Taiwan unless Russia is humiliated.
That is a fundamental misreading of China's relationship with Taiwan and China's intentions. China is likely to never attack Taiwan as long as the status quo is maintained, and as long as they believe that eventual peaceful reunification is possible. China's policy on Taiwan has not changed for decades. The height of military tensions were in the late 50s, when China and Taiwan were shelling each other. In later deca…
That's not true from my perspective as an American. China didn't historically make the same kind of continuing and increasing bellicose actions and claims as they do today. They have grown slowly over time, perhaps as China's military power has increased. Yes 50 years ago there was attacks, but China seems to be more threatened by the emergence of true democracy in Taiwan, and the development of later generations in a more independent societal direction (the people who left mainland China were being replaced/aged out of leadership by people who had never lived in China).
My Taiwanese friends have also told me that China has significantly increased their concern for the future.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russia has regrouped and moved past the “humiliation“ event. Russia has 10 times the artillery as Ukraine and they are putting it to work. The West is simply not providing enough to Ukraine Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians will eventually die, and they could lose. https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-risks-losing-artillery-war-...
Even if Russia manages to level a few more cities, it's hard to see the past three months as anything but a humiliation of Russia's military might. The damage to Russian military international respect (fear, even) has already been done.
According to whom? Western journalists with degrees in subjects like humanities? US television news? Subreddits?
Russia invaded with the inverse of the ratio recommended by the US Military for attackers versus defenders (3:1) [which is why they had such significant losses in the first several weeks of personnel and equipment]. They have used probably less than 20% of their personnel and equipment.
Despite the assumption that the West has the best gear, at this point in time Russia has not only the best ballistics (hypersonic, etc) but also the best layered air defense systems. The best electronic warfare systems hands down. More diverse longer range artillery systems and more numerous than anything the West can throw at them.
Can you name a single significant counter offensive that the Ukrainian army, the second largest and well-armed in all of Europe with piles of Soviet equipment, their own military industrial complex as well as NATO intelligence and training (other than the sinking of the Moscow, which was pretty impressive).
Regarding tactics, google up "Maskirovka" and military feints. And please read Manufacturing Consent.
The massive English language Ukrainian social media effort does not win wars. We need to be realistic and honest about what is going on instead of projecting what we wish were happening.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about what they did in Hong Kong? They changed the rules once, what stops them from doing it again? History clearly means nothing.
Deviations in agreements is not a thing exclusive to China. Agreements in international politics are made for a purpose. Perhaps to keep peace, or to protect some interest, etc. If the situation changes such that that purpose can no longer be served — especially if that purpose is an extremely important core interest — then any country will seek to deviate from agreed upon behavior. For example, the US clearly agreed…
The thing is that China defines the border territories around it as it wishes, and those definitions change over time to suit its current desires. So that turns out not to be an adequate description of why it behaves to protect its 'core interests'.
Today the Chinese govt, aka Xi and the CCP seem to be working to become the most powerful country through trying to weaken democratic governments, along with this comes increasing threatening military actions. The world is in a dangerous 10 year period as China's power increases to a maximum, dictator Xi is in charge, and pressure will increase on them as their population starts to shrink along with an increasing retired population compared to the number of workers.
This is all separate from my belief that China should be able to be free to make their own choices about their own country, they just can invade and destroy everyone else to get their own way. I feel great sadness for the Chinese people being subject to a horrible central government (yeah, they've also moved millions of people out of poverty and improved their lives, but they still ended up with a country that like the USSR now won't let people leave freely, holds foreign citizens hostile, and also records college lectures so they can see if profs talk about impure thoughts).
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> Deviations in agreements is not a thing exclusive to China. Yes, but merely looking at the agreement that China broke recently with the invasion of Hong Kong, a reasonable person would assume that there's a much higher risk of them breaking more agreements than another arbitrary country that hasn't been invading other countries recently. Said another way, most people currently will trust France to honor a pact more…
Invading Hong Kong? Are you equating Hong Kong to Ukraine? How does that equation exactly work, given that Hong Kong was Chinese territory in the 19th century and was taken away by the British by force for refusing to buy opium?
Ukraine and HK are very different of course. But the outcome is the same, people who were previously free were invaded, put off into prison for things like saying they publicly disagreed and wearing the wrong color shirt in Hong Kong.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about what they did in Hong Kong? They changed the rules once, what stops them from doing it again? History clearly means nothing.
You should think more about what China didn’t do in Macau, to understand China’s actions and motives better. Many people in Hong Kong grasp onto useless documents like the Sino-British Declaration because their actual constitution (the basic law) gave them no assurance to match promises. That constitution always gave the PRC ability to control any and everything there to suppress anything. The appointments always cam…
More important than any sophistry or arguments about the nuances of the agreements around HK is that China has been crushing freedom in HK. That's the problem. Stop doing that. China won't stop because that's the way they remain in power. China can't use its usual excuse that "we brought millions out of poverty through our rule" in Hong Kong, because they were already pretty well off there. The HK economy is going backwards.