Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
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#3All they need to do is look at what happened in Hong Kong.
If China did not do what they did in Hong Kong, Taiwan may be headed to some kind on unification. Now, they would be crazy to even entertain that thought.
This issue lies directly on China and no one else. If I had a say in Taiwan, I would announce it is now a independent Country.
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#5It may be time to recognize that the one China policy which the US has supported has essentially doomed Taiwan. Sure we had some laughs and a lot of people made many billions of dollars off the backs of Chinese slaves, but there is no resisting the PRC’s power and might - power and might that the United States, or more accurately a clique of business people and government functionaries here, have nurtured.
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#6Probably a completely idiotic suggestion, but why can't the US secretly provide Taiwan with a few nukes if things really heat up as a very last measure to deter China.
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#7What I don't get is that to invade Taiwan, China needs a large amount of ships and cargo planes, both of which seem very vulnerable to modern missiles (as the Russian army found out in Ukraine). Do the chinese have a solution for that?
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#8All they need to do is look at what happened in Hong Kong. If China did not do what they did in Hong Kong, Taiwan may be headed to some kind on unification. Now, they would be crazy to even entertain that thought. This issue lies directly on China and no one else. If I had a say in Taiwan, I would announce it is now a independent Country.
> All they need to do is look at what happened in Hong Kong.
Maybe I am diving too much into the weeds here, but my understanding with HK is when the UK left and setup autonomous region with China in 1984, China/UK agree to leave the gov unchanged for 50 years after 1997 [0]. This interim government that was setup is controlled by CCP members.
My understanding is the Taiwan gov has always been completely separate from HK's.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
Re: Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
#9All they need to do is look at what happened in Hong Kong. If China did not do what they did in Hong Kong, Taiwan may be headed to some kind on unification. Now, they would be crazy to even entertain that thought. This issue lies directly on China and no one else. If I had a say in Taiwan, I would announce it is now a independent Country.
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#10Probably a completely idiotic suggestion, but why can't the US secretly provide Taiwan with a few nukes if things really heat up as a very last measure to deter China.
China would provide us with a few if we did that. Actually I believe the nukes are coming soon but thankfully will be limited to Europe and the UK.