China 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.
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#52China 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.
what does "checked" mean? does it involve aircraft carriers? I don't mind if we keep playing the midgame part of chess for a while longer...
You can participate by actively seeking to avoid purchasing products made in China.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The current Taiwanese government's only stated goal is to defend itself. That is entirely wrong. There are plenty of people in the current government pushing the envelope to achieve more "pronounced" independence. Two examples: Biden’s democracy summit incident. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/curious-case-map-... Change of passport. The current government is also pushing to get the day-to-day name Taiwa…
It's remarkable that anyone would classify something like a change of passport or a color on a map as "aggression" toward China! Especially when the Chinese aggression discussed here is airstrikes and missile barrage, followed by a naval invasion. Everyone understands that Taiwan will not invade China. To classify Taiwan as the aggressor is wildly disingenuous.
What I meant is to start a conflict (intentional or unintentionally) to get US military involved. Just watch the local news commentors there. It is definitely been constantly discussed.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you plan a quick win and instead manage to claim 2 provinces after you flattened them, that is humiliating.
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.
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#55This video by polymatter is one of best at explaining the china Taiwan relation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LiMTtGrAY
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#56Unfortunately, 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…
Agreed up until:
> Anything Russia does to other states has got absolutely nothing to do with it.
This is a major change in the global status quo (given that China is closely aligned with Russia now). I disagree with your parent comment on "unless Russia is humiliated".
It is yet unclear either way would increase China's appetite for Taiwan. If Russia is defeated, China may find it is necessary to reunite with Taiwan to maintain its geographical security given Russia would no longer be able to support / project support for China's military move in the future. If Russia wins, China may find it is a strategical weak point for U.S. allied forces and it is a good time to reunite with Taiwan given higher nationalism.
Again, it is yet unclear. One thing certain though: the uncertainty increased substantially following Russia's war on Ukraine.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> 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. Put another way: if the people of Taiwan decide that they don't want reunification, then China is going to invade and take them by force.
Yes? That's literally what CCP's threat about and what they considered to be the red-line (i.e. any vote for independence would meet with military action).
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#58China 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.
China, Russia, and the United States are the only 3 superpowers. China already has a larger economy in terms of PPP. It passed the United States in 2017. Russia appears to have bigger plans beyond Ukraine: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-38099842 Also, people seem to be a month behind on what Russia is doing in Ukraine. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-06-10/ukraine-a...
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's remarkable that anyone would classify something like a change of passport or a color on a map as "aggression" toward China! Especially when the Chinese aggression discussed here is airstrikes and missile barrage, followed by a naval invasion. Everyone understands that Taiwan will not invade China. To classify Taiwan as the aggressor is wildly disingenuous.
What I meant is to start a conflict (intentional or unintentionally) to get US military involved. Just watch the local news commentors there. It is definitely been constantly discussed.
Some US news commentators talk about supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. That doesn't mean it's official policy.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-russia-ukrain...
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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…
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 came from Beijing, and it inherits a system similar to City of London where 100% of the people’s vote and representatives can only be 50% of the legislative outcome. Its hopeless - for those deathly afraid of PRC life - and always has been, and China can wait out that “50 year thing” ever so nominally, in a way that doesnt match anything remotely close to what is often repeated in the west about what “should” happen. To me, having read the basic law and prc constitution, China didnt break its agreement, and anyone grasping at the Sino British Declaration is being disingenuous, ignorant, or really that desperate. Only thing to point at is Britain for giving up on negotiations, because they failed the people of Hong Kong back in the 90s and let the basic law be good enough.
But again, look at Macau and why that area isn’t an issue in the minds of the west, its not the smaller population.
Despite rule of law being kind of a burgeoning concept in the PRC (unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles to the stuff they were already going to do), China is pretty predictable and operates within some easy to understand confines.