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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: Libertas on February 24, 2022, 11:08:28 AM
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Guess we can move of the JoeFraud regime spooking Taiwan & Japan and China tracking threads as things are probably closer to going kinetic in Taiwan sooner rather than later...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-jets-come-near-taiwan-beijing-blasts-us-fueling-fires-lead-ukraine-invasion (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-jets-come-near-taiwan-beijing-blasts-us-fueling-fires-lead-ukraine-invasion)
Skirting an ADIZ is one thing, breaching them for however short a bit more serious...and the pace of incursions is steady...
I'd say paying closer attention is warranted.
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(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9826695d510a85208cad20b3f9d8b84f4025cf6e82614ae12455d4b5a7d6e5d5.jpg)
Xi preps the battlefield...his bought and paid for puppet removes obstacles for ChiCom eyes in America...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-experts-dojs-halting-trump-era-china-initiative-inexplicable (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-experts-dojs-halting-trump-era-china-initiative-inexplicable)
...all the while crushing domestic energy independence and using the plandemic to destroy the rest of the economy...
...Taiwan ought to be sh*tting bricks...probably everybody else too...
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/taiwan-hit-widespread-power-outages-affecting-taipei/ (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/taiwan-hit-widespread-power-outages-affecting-taipei/)
Malfunction? Oh sure...that what they called battlespace prep now?
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Pretty reliable power. Only one outage in the year I was there but it was a doozy. The whole country is interconnected, with little excess. If something happens at a power plant, any power plant, a good chunk of the country can go offline.
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Well, no different than here really...power generation works...it's the transmission infrastructure that has inherent fragility...and mitigation needs for mother nature.
See this?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/03/former-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-calls-on-u-s-govt-to-recognize-taiwan-as-independent/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/03/former-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-calls-on-u-s-govt-to-recognize-taiwan-as-independent/)
IMO it should have been done under Reagan...but Schultz et al still beholden to the Kissinger School. ::gaah::
And it's not like the Commies will put a bigger target on them than is already there. But, I don't see any string-pullers in our corrupt government with the stones to order it...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-warns-hegemonic-us-against-creating-pacific-version-nato (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-warns-hegemonic-us-against-creating-pacific-version-nato)
Wang could use some butthurt salve...
Taiwan and Ukraine are not alike...as opposed to Ukraine, Taiwan is a strategic interest for stability in the Western Pacific when Red China is running rogue and threatening all neighbors...they make Russia look like the JV squad...
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/watching-russia-invade-ukraine-biden-responds-weak-deterrent-potential-china-invasion-taiwan/ (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/watching-russia-invade-ukraine-biden-responds-weak-deterrent-potential-china-invasion-taiwan/)
Makes sense from the point of view that JoeFraud is a Xi puppet, doesn't it?
Trump would have continued strengthening ties in the region, getting South Korea (now with a strong leader) and Japan, Australia, New Zealand and others stepping up their defense spending and building a coalition.
The clock is really ticking faster for Taiwan...
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Take this with a grain of salt...I place little faith on a Russian IC whistleblower...
https://youtu.be/rN0LgoalcSs (https://youtu.be/rN0LgoalcSs)
...however, the timing issue (April/October) has some validity, but I think the fall (Oct-Dec) looks more favorable...
https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/taiwan (https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/taiwan)
And if the CHi-Com's are wanting to use the Ukraine invasion as cover for their own on Taiwan...they need Russia to drag this out a bit but could exploit it between now and April...after that monsoons hit followed by typhoon season...then the wait till fall.
And anybody can monitor the wind and sea in the Strait...
https://windy.app/forecast2/spot/699644/Taiwan+Strait+bank (https://windy.app/forecast2/spot/699644/Taiwan+Strait+bank)
And, doesn't mean a calm period anytime couldn't be exploited either...
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Of course they'd take the opportunity to buzz around Taiwan again with US Senators visiting...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijing-carries-out-military-drills-over-taiwan-us-lawmakers-meet-president-tsai (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijing-carries-out-military-drills-over-taiwan-us-lawmakers-meet-president-tsai)
...and just like Ukraine it won't be a deterrent but a selling point in deeper cooperation and commitment.
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About time you puking-dog cowards came out in the open with your so-called latest and greatest Chi-Com toys...
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/china-deploy-most-advanced-fighter-jet-disputed-east-and-south-china-seas (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/china-deploy-most-advanced-fighter-jet-disputed-east-and-south-china-seas)
...gotta get some tracking and intercept experience on this self-touted invincible machine...
::evilbat::
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Chi-Com's no like round-eye warship transiting international waters claimed by Reds?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irate-china-tracks-us-destroyer-through-taiwan-strait-4th-transit-year (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irate-china-tracks-us-destroyer-through-taiwan-strait-4th-transit-year)
Pah, tell me something new...
Like a "man the rail" order followed by a command to flash ass in a Westward direction. ::mooning:: ;D
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-says-us-will-respond-militarily-if-china-attacks-taiwan (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-says-us-will-respond-militarily-if-china-attacks-taiwan)
So, once again the mentally defective is taken advantage of again and speaks the unspoken part out loud...
Whatever. Chi-Com's are the preeminent threat from afar...unfortunately America's greatest threat to her Liberty are the Marxists and appeasers within...
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Bogus Obamian 501(C)3 commie rat bastard front group Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think(ha!) tank in DC wants to run menticide op on American's, Taiwanese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos...basically everybody in the Pacific region and especially West Pacific demoralized about confronting Communist China so they Reds have an easy time rolling up Taiwan.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beware-hidden-messages-war-games (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beware-hidden-messages-war-games)
It's 100% obvious to anybody with a brain. The Chi-Com's attacking South Korea and Japan and the US directly is the worst thing they could do as it would unite the region. They want Taiwan to be a cakewalk, and CNAS is doing their battlefield prep! Once Taiwan falls, sorry...it's over in the West PAcific folks...Taiwan will become the largest air, land and sea fortress the world will ever see...and all the neighboring disputed areas will fall quickly into ChiCom hands...and military/economic extortion will oppress all. They only way to neutralize them once in place is overkill the entire island with SLBM's, and that kicks off a bigger holocaust.
And the illegitimate occupation government here will only do token measures, take serious losses and at the end of the day, throw their arms up and say they tried but nothing they can do now...utter useless words to pants-shatting beighbors...and walk away...all according to script...
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Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Wei Fenghe's spokesman - "it is better to meet than not to meet and it is better to talk than not to talk,"
Translation - Rroyd Austin is a monkey-raping fool, how puking-dog yankee get so dumb? Ha haaaa haaaa!
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When bullies say they are going to do something...they most often do exactly what they say they were going to do...
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/17/in-starker-terms-than-ever-china-threatens-war-over-taiwan/
...folks ignoring that simple time-tested logic...usually fail...and often suffer greatly for it.
Revealing and pathetic...that the Japanese sound like they have a set...while our illegitimate occupation government morons clearly do not...
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Perfect for postcards to Xi...
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/awzpq5W_460swp.webp
;D
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https://adnamerica.com/en/california/chinese-pundit-suggests-shooting-down-pelosis-plane-ahead-taiwan-trip
HU are you? ::hysterical::
Yeah, you talk big like most arm-chair puking-dog commie...
Here's your chance...
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1553313691231289344
...Piglosi coming at ya!
Go ahead, make our day!
I triple-dog dare ya!!!
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/40128a025fccdb53a9985be277599139280a065d5bb5abe9984420384b68736f.jpg)
H/T-WZ
https://youtu.be/kPIdRJlzERo
::hysterical::
But get ready for disappointment...when do the good ever get to see the evil fall before too much damage is done?
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More theatrics over Wicked Witch of the West and her Asian drinking tour...
Liaoning & Shandong set sail.
::ohno::
https://thelibertydaily.com/both-of-chinas-aircraft-carriers-leave-port-ahead-of-threatened-pelosi-visit-to-taiwan/ (https://thelibertydaily.com/both-of-chinas-aircraft-carriers-leave-port-ahead-of-threatened-pelosi-visit-to-taiwan/)
OK, calm down...they're just roosters strutting without essential rooster parts...
Chi-Com jets buzz the straits...
::ohno::
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pelosis-plane-avoiding-south-china-sea-taiwan-pla-surges-forces-just-across-strait (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pelosis-plane-avoiding-south-china-sea-taiwan-pla-surges-forces-just-across-strait)
Calm down, they do this crap all the time. Just paint a target on them, let them hear the growl...wave them goodbye...
(https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/taiwan%20map.png)
I don't think Xi is in a position yet to launch an invasion...they need a bigger distraction...Ukraine situation is not going to flip...NATO-Russia front seems a stand off/status quo...I think the big wait for Western economic recession to depression watch is in play...
As always, Tucker has a nice "WTF is this" take on things...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/02/tucker-carlson-delivers-monologue-on-the-odd-nancy-pelosi-trip-to-tiawan/ (https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/02/tucker-carlson-delivers-monologue-on-the-odd-nancy-pelosi-trip-to-tiawan/)
KISS - Biden is told to do x, y & z...he and his string-pullers are enemies of America...one can only deduce everything is on purpose...
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So far Xi left with Rocket-Boy type tantrums...firing rockets into the ocean (that'll show...uhh, fish!) and conduct the usual exercises...
https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1554485697448251393/photo/1 (https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1554485697448251393/photo/1)
And I doubt an invasion of Taiwan proper is in the offing...
Is this a parade?
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/China-Xiamen-Port.png.jpg)
If not, maybe taking those little islands is a possibility...
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/Taiwan-Islands.jpg)
...Taiwan proper...I doubt it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/warning-china-poised-invade-taiwans-offshore-islands/ (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/warning-china-poised-invade-taiwans-offshore-islands/)
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;D
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;D
Weapons free! ::hysterical::
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I think this is definitely part of it...
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1554463931007225856 (https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1554463931007225856)
...that was the payoff...what the CCP gets is, well...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pelosis-plane-avoiding-south-china-sea-taiwan-pla-surges-forces-just-across-strait (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pelosis-plane-avoiding-south-china-sea-taiwan-pla-surges-forces-just-across-strait)
...they get to be "provoked"...sortie ships and planes, launch rockets into the ocean...cyber attack Taiwan servers...practice amphibious landings...call a fop US ambassador on the carpet...
Declare the "median line" is void...this time they really mean it I guess...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pelosi-departs-taiwan-after-president-tsai-bestowed-highest-medal-china-preps-largest (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pelosi-departs-taiwan-after-president-tsai-bestowed-highest-medal-china-preps-largest)
Anyway, she flew off on her broom to shake down the South Koreans before heading back here...to finish off America with JoeFraud and Schumer and Schiff er al... ::outrage::
We know this was a scam, an excuse to justify the Chi-Com's into a froth...and profit personally for the favor...
They've been saying and continue to say the same thing over and over again...
We Do Not Support Taiwan Independence (https://www.mediaite.com/politics/john-kirby-announces-we-do-not-support-taiwan-independence-ahead-of-pelosis-expected-trip/)
That being the case...why would the Chi-Com's get butthurt...why did Pelosi go? ::saywhat::
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https://americafirstreport.com/china-has-established-a-blockade-around-taiwan-and-plans-to-shoot-missiles-directly-over-the-island/
Unlike Ukraine, this is a battle worth fighting for...if Taiwan falls...neighboring Pacific nations are in deep deep trouble...the Red Dragon will dominate...
It will essentially guarantee military conflict among many nations...
And for the "one China" clowns...people (plural) being stupid or ignorant of history forget that Chiang Kai-shek unified China and then Mao led his exploitive commie peasant revolt and it resulted in the fleeing of the nationalist Republic of China to Taiwan...so, it is equally true that the ROC has a claim on the CCP occupied mainland.
Anyway...for over 40 years I've been disappointed in failing to recognize ROC independence...while people blindly accept CCP rule and prostrate themselves to totalitarianism to satiate their greed...
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ahh...umm...
China on Friday said it is canceling or suspending dialogue with the United States on a range of issues from climate change to military relations and anti-drug efforts in retaliation for a visit this week to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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The Foreign Ministry said dialogue between U.S. and Chinese regional commanders and defense department heads would be canceled, along with talks on military maritime safety.
Cooperation on returning illegal immigrants, criminal investigations, transnational crime, illegal drugs and climate change will be suspended, the ministry said.
https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/china-sanctions-us-for-pelosis-visit-to-taiwan (https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/china-sanctions-us-for-pelosis-visit-to-taiwan)
Umm, so their commies are going to not talk to our corrupt commie bureaucrats, praetorians and politicians...and they're going to not going to cooperate on stuff like climate change they never had an intention of honoring in any way at all ever...?
::hysterical:: ::rolllaughing:: ::laughonfloor::
Holy shi!t, man...what additional benefits can we get if we piss ya off even more?!
::whoohoo::
::laughonfloor::
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Message to Beijing...
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-hails-overnight-test-minuteman-iii-nuke-capable-ballistic-missile-after-delay-over (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-hails-overnight-test-minuteman-iii-nuke-capable-ballistic-missile-after-delay-over)
Given the scale of recent activities by East and West in the area, the large number of dark (undisclosed) traffic in the area...similar activity all the way up to Japan and South Korea...it appears the tempo is picking up. I don't think it's a matter of if the ChiCom's pounce on Taiwan, I think it's when...and the when appears to be growing very near.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-shoots-down-intrusive-civilian-drone-chinas-coast (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-shoots-down-intrusive-civilian-drone-chinas-coast)
War. It's to die for. Get it on you pansies! ::popcorn::
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The NA traffic around Red China and declared intent to use merchant vessels and aircraft in military operations combined with the continued economic turmoil in-country leads me to think some kinetic action on Taiwan is getting dangerously close...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-pla-drones-now-regularly-buzzing-taiwan-crossing-median-line-1st-time (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-pla-drones-now-regularly-buzzing-taiwan-crossing-median-line-1st-time)
Likes like low-risk data collection and harassment to me...probably in prelude to finalizing attack plans...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/xis-meeting-putin-seen-major-market-risk (https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/xis-meeting-putin-seen-major-market-risk)
Yeah, meeting central Asian pals...and chief ally/principle rival in post-hegemony wars landscape...and before their commie party congress...
Yeah, not like their planning anything, eh?
Something more than market moving...like perhaps pouncing on Taiwan and have a position-saving win to show your commie congress?
Seems to get a big boost from Xi stacking the deck - https://www.zerohedge.com/military/xi-poised-build-support-taiwan-reunification-4-top-military-picks (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/xi-poised-build-support-taiwan-reunification-4-top-military-picks)
All the while things out West heat up for Putin...
https://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,9929.new.html#new (https://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,9929.new.html#new)
And with a strike on Iran all but certain, just a matter of when not if...
https://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,17754.new.html#new (https://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,17754.new.html#new)
Taiwan better be ready.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-anticipated-many-lessons-war-ukraine (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-anticipated-many-lessons-war-ukraine)
That was a pretty good analysis, though Taiwan does not have the luxury of time for shipbuilding and drone development...they need to get assets in place now, like yesterday. They have to get any operational vessels, drones and missiles available on the market put in service like pronto. If not before or during the commies party something is coming for them very very soon.
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IMO helping Taiwan defund itself (they were the lawful government betrayed by Mao and his commie thugs and forced into exile on Taiwan...reunification should be Taiwan reabsorbing the mainland, not the communist mainland absorbing Taiwan!) is a much more just fight than getting involved in European pissing matches...but thanks to the DemoCommie/DeepState Cabal many will see the taint of one on the other, where no taint should exist...
A U.S. Senate committee last week approved a bill to dramatically boost American military support for Taiwan, a move that prompted warnings from both China and anti-war voices in the United States that such a policy increases the likelihood of armed conflict.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-5 in favor of the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022, which according to its text "promotes the security of Taiwan, ensures regional stability, and deters People's Republic of China (PRC) aggression against Taiwan. It also threatens severe sanctions against the PRC for hostile action against Taiwan."
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It is unclear whether U.S. President Joe Biden would sign the bill if it is passed by Congress.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/senate-bill-taiwan-will-make-war-much-more-likely (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/senate-bill-taiwan-will-make-war-much-more-likely)
Don't know Wilkins or his Common (wet?) Dreams outfit...but seem like these anti-war types are of the Leftists Ukraine war good everything else evil & bad variety...
Whatever. And regardless is passed or signed...doesn't matter...didn't JoeFraud already make a hard commitment?
Biden answered "yes" when asked whether American forces would defend the self-ruled island if it came under Chinese military invasion. "Yes, if, in fact, there was an unprecedented attack," he said in a sit-down with Scott Pelley, which aired in full Sunday night.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-again-vows-us-forces-would-defend-taiwan-if-china-invades (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-again-vows-us-forces-would-defend-taiwan-if-china-invades)
Ahh, yes...that clears up...umm...NOTHING!
Somebody gets to declare if it is "unprecedented" or not...according to your definition of "unprecedented"...or Jello-head JoeFraud could claim he misspoke and being the addle-brained buffoon we know him to be people would just shrug, right?
Poor Taiwan, and others threatened by ChiCom dreams of global domination...they should only get material support from America...cause pretty sure the clowns running things now will make things worse...
And hopefully the enemy isn't going to use this...
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/powerful-earthquake-shakes-taiwan-buildings-and-bridges-collapse (https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/powerful-earthquake-shakes-taiwan-buildings-and-bridges-collapse)
...as an opportunity to pounce...hopefully they have their hands full with their own natural disasters.
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His handlers, ever vigilante (and well exercised covering this jello-head!) are back-tracking on the direct US military assistance in the defense of Taiwan should the Chi-Com's (or anyone else for that matter!) try to invade their territory...
https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/biden-says-us-troops-would-defend-taiwan-white-house-backtracks-remarks/
What his handlers and the media is clearly ignoring entirely...is that the Taiwan Relations Act on the books as 22 USC Ch. 48 clearly states under point 6 that direct US support in their defense is explicit -
(6) to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title22/chapter48&edition=prelim
So, these handlers, the presscorpse, woke Pentagon puppets and Foggy Bottom creepers and IC reptiles and butthurt Chi-Com loving peasants need to STFU and OBEY THE LAW!
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OBEY THE LAW! What'r'ya kiddin?
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I think the Chinese love to pretend they are shocked. Maybe they have to react like this publicly.
I mean, the Chinese know Biden is senile but they have to go through the motions as though he was not.
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OBEY THE LAW! What'r'ya kiddin?
Yeah I know...
I'm a sarcastic smart ass...
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I think the Chinese love to pretend they are shocked. Maybe they have to react like this publicly.
I mean, the Chinese know Biden is senile but they have to go through the motions as though he was not.
The commies like to wave the One China mace all the time...but that same mace and the primacy behind the wielder does not belong to the commies...
Hence the butthurt...
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I believe in reality. I don't think the US can do anything to keep China from taking over Taiwan.
I wish things were different.
I am no military expert but I think projecting power that far around the world for a long time period would fail.
I think that US subs could sink lots of Chinese vessels.
I have no idea if US carriers would be sunk by China.
China can make lots of vessels like the US did in WWII.
I have no idea if China could fight well.
Their armed forces are kinda weird and political.
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I believe in reality. I don't think the US can do anything to keep China from taking over Taiwan.
I wish things were different.
I am no military expert but I think projecting power that far around the world for a long time period would fail.
I think that US subs could sink lots of Chinese vessels.
I have no idea if US carriers would be sunk by China.
China can make lots of vessels like the US did in WWII.
I have no idea if China could fight well.
Their armed forces are kinda weird and political.
Don't need to be an expert, common sense can take most people as far as they need to go.
The US could do a lot to prevent the Communists from taking it, as always it comes down to the will to do so.
Conventionally, I do not see our leadership willing to adversely risk capital assets to help defend Taiwan, nor do they really need to. By capital assets I mean carriers, amphib command ships, cruisers and B-2's, F-35's or F-22's. And I am not certain from a boots on the ground respect we would have "troops" per se there, though there could be the ubiquitous "advisors".
I would park any carriers well enough off of Taiwan to make it difficult for the commies to sortie surface ships or subs to intercept...forcing them to use longer range missiles (or planes) which provide more flight time and better odds at intercepting. Any carrier sorties could be launched to do aerial activity from that distance using just the F/A-18's supported by re-fueler's. Additional land-based long-range bombers from Guam, Diego Garcia and CONUS (B-1's maybe even some B-52's) could wreak havoc on land and sea targets. Attack sub use I would expect to be utilized, but limited.
China's only real option is to overwhelm with numbers - ships, planes, missiles, subs...manpower they have plenty so that is not a concern for them...and the cost in hardware could be huge...and then it comes down to who opts for The Putin Doctrine first when conventional isn't succeeding...and more importantly when American on Communist or Communist on American casualties start...and somebody pushes a button better left locked?
Or does Biden do another cut & run? Which is not going to be easier at sea...
Flip a coin, don't be surprised if it lands on its edge...
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Hu Jintao....opponent of using force on Taiwan...ushered out of the 20th CCP Congress...
https://youtu.be/SKJPy7lOKEc
Predictably, the official ChiCom reason is total BS...
(https://i.postimg.cc/Wzbgjrkp/577801acfcff52091691de56fd5b803f908d54c1bbfebc53ecbc3f4e2513a711.jpg)
Yeah, sick people can be so defiant...
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Pretty sure he didn't ultimately acquiesce until that tap on Bad Panda's (Xi) shoulder and got a response that got him moving...probably something along the lines of...
Hu - "Will my family be safe?"
Xi - "Of course"
Which is worth just about the same as an "eff you"...gun kai
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/meet-7-men-who-will-rule-china (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/meet-7-men-who-will-rule-china)
Xi - Invading Taiwan...who is not on board with this? (crickets)
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The expansionist China threat continues to spook regional allies...Japan continues to look for ways to strengthen its defenses...as it should.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/japan-considering-long-range-missiles-submarines (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/japan-considering-long-range-missiles-submarines)
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Figures...
Porking the Taiwanese and rewarding the Uke's...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/theres-19-billion-backlog-weapons-bound-taiwan (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/theres-19-billion-backlog-weapons-bound-taiwan)
If I were Taiwan I would loudly ask the Illegitimate FJB Regime if they are racists...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/military/major-us-anti-tank-systems-deal-underscores-taiwan-fortifying-itself-against-future (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/major-us-anti-tank-systems-deal-underscores-taiwan-fortifying-itself-against-future)
Quickly deployed anti-tank mines...nice welcome mat for Chi-Com fodder that make it ashore...
https://www.pica.army.mil/pmccs/areadenial/legacymines/volcano.html (https://www.pica.army.mil/pmccs/areadenial/legacymines/volcano.html)
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Meanwhile, as we noted earlier this week, Xi's newly appointed Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang is busy attempting a 'softening' and breakthrough in US-China relations.
After taking over the post last Friday, before which he served as the ambassador to the US, he wrote in a new Washington Post op-ed published Wednesday that US-China competition "should not be a zero-sum game," arguing further that "The world is wide enough for China and the US to both develop and prosper."
He asserted that "decoupling serves no one’s interest", but that healthy relations including economic cooperation "will remain an important mission" in his new role as Beijing's top diplomat, but it remains that "Improving relations takes work by both sides," he wrote.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-destroyer-enters-taiwan-strait-new-china-fm-argues-world-wide-enough-both-powers (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-destroyer-enters-taiwan-strait-new-china-fm-argues-world-wide-enough-both-powers)
Clever of Xi, find a minion that talks the talk of cooperation...while Xi marches ahead unabated...
How fortunate FJB and leading Pol's in America are already bought and paid for...makes the Red Dragon's taqiyya & kitmen an easier sell...
#OnlyAnImbecileBuysThisBS
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Xi's response - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-responds-us-warship-presence-large-scale-exercises-taiwan (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-responds-us-warship-presence-large-scale-exercises-taiwan)
Qin offers an olive branch...Xi offers a beating...
The not-so-new Communist China...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-defense-ministry-reveals-rare-cooperation-nato (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-defense-ministry-reveals-rare-cooperation-nato)
(Yawn)
Free and independent state can engage with whoever they want...
Chi-Com's angry?
Pah-leeze! Eff those commie devils...they are always angry... ::mooning::
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Because one war which should not be ours to wage is being conducted and is draining resources faster than a black hole...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/air-force-general-tells-his-officers-war-china-only-2-years-away (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/air-force-general-tells-his-officers-war-china-only-2-years-away)
...the one war worth engaging in will be hampered by the aforementioned folly...
...and it could commence anytime within 2 years, not after two years...
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HA! Been waiting for another idiot to make the bogus Taiwan-Ukraine connection try to stick!
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/making-taiwan-ukraine-east (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/making-taiwan-ukraine-east)
Only a mentally-stunted intellect and/or BRICS-biased clown can make such a comparison. Idiot parrot's "one-China" like a Politburo member...shames political crackdowns in Taiwan like they are several orders of magnitude worse than Mao's reign of terror from Civil War through the "Cultural Revolution"...or the recent Ugyhirs genocide!
America getting some basing rights in Luzon.
::ohno::
Redline! Just like Ukraine!
Bloody children. Who has expanded their military and economic heft from one corner of the Pacific to the other with their Belt and Road, String of Pearls, man-made islands in disputed territories turned into military bases to threaten neighbors etc etc? Effing Communist China, that's who.
America has always been present in Asia. Always...
The one expanding like crazy...go to this thread - https://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,3910.0.html (https://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,3910.0.html) - and read beginning to end...China's rise is like Imperial Japan's rise...like Hitler's Germany rise...
The one crossing red-lines is Communist China. It is the one foe we should be paying attention to, not effing Ukraine, not effing Europe...
The comparison of Taiwan to Ukraine is surface-level only because of the stench of Ukraine...and people with intelligence know this to be true...and any comparison on the facts is overwhelmed by the aggressive expansionism and militarization of the Pacific by Communist China.
Pretend the Dragon is no threat...enjoy being its dinner.
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Mentally-stunted losers at pAnti-War having panic attacks again...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-conducts-aircraft-carrier-drills-south-china-sea-amid-balloon-tensions (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-conducts-aircraft-carrier-drills-south-china-sea-amid-balloon-tensions)
We play in the South China Sea and all seas all the time, dummies.
Funny you worms never get in a twist when Chi-Com's seize islands, build artificial islands and turn them into military strongholds or do any damn thing...
Not to mention remaining absolutely silent on any BRICS waging war...
You biased idiots are actually encouraging war.
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Ha, seems sailing in the SCS has a good reason to run some capital ships through after all...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warns-it-will-defend-philippines-after-china-deploys-laser-sea (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warns-it-will-defend-philippines-after-china-deploys-laser-sea)
Act of War...blast them into bits!!!
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I would be awfully nervous if I was in Taiwan and surrounding Asian nations...
"We will put forward China’s position on the political settlement on the Ukraine crisis, and stay firm on the side of peace and dialogue."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinas-top-diplomat-visits-russia-zelensky-warns-military-alliance-would-spark-ww3 (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinas-top-diplomat-visits-russia-zelensky-warns-military-alliance-would-spark-ww3)
Yeah...commies, so predictable...
Talk over here...scheme over there...
"We do not add fuel to the fire, and we’re against reaping benefits from this crisis"
Sure thing, Wang... I've seen better BS come out of a fortune cookie!
"Some forces might not want to see peace talks to materialize. They don’t care about the life and death of Ukrainians, nor the harm on Europe. They might have strategic goals larger than Ukraine itself. This warfare must not continue,"
Uhh huh...I cannot wait to see what a Chi-Com proposal the West cannot resist looks like...I expect it will have nothing in it pissing Putin off...so it seems to be it will be Putin's terms in a Mandarin...
Yay.
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It's a stalling tactic...this smells more of a China coordinating timing with Putin most advantageous to an invasion of Taiwan and possibly other nearby islands...
Hope I'm wrong...
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https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/04/05/mccarthy-china-should-lose-most-favored-trade-status-and-well-move-to-revoke-it/ (https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/04/05/mccarthy-china-should-lose-most-favored-trade-status-and-well-move-to-revoke-it/)
That those puking yellow-dog commie rat bastards still have MFN trade status is a testament to how nutless this illegitimate regime and its DeepState allies are...
Eff China! They rape us coming and going and we're supposed to bend over for more abuse? Eff NATO/EU, Ukraine all that...Communist China s/b our #1 foe, period. I say at this point there is no penalty to openly and formally recognize the independence of Taiwan aka Free China. Eff the Commies. I would stop giving Ukraine and NATO anything and flip it all to Taiwan. Going to have to kick that dragon's balls soon, might as well plan intelligently for it. Let the Rus and Musloid animals have the Old World.
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https://twitter.com/Apex_WW/status/1643771096942903298
If true, then molestation in international waters should result in shots being fired into the CCP's ships doing the molesting...
This party could be close to starting...
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https://nationalfile.com/war-drums-china-encircles-taiwan-says-military-is-ready-to-fight/
Ready to fight?
Ha! More like fat-panda ready to fart!
Smirking running-dog commie rat-bastard is all show no go! ::vafancoul::
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Col Macgregor talks about China in a different way.
IMO the MSM is feeding us a lot of crap about Taiwan to provoke a war.
The MSM is not talking to the people of Taiwan any more than they talk to the people of Ukraine.
China does not want a war and neither do the people of Taiwan. They want the status quo. Macgregor talks about the Chinese culture. This talk of democracy ands human rights is mostly western propaganda.
At 10:30 below.
https://youtu.be/PV9To7L4P2k?t=635
Douglas Macgregor - Humiliating Russia and Making Terrible Mistakes
Douglas Macgregor Col
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Col Macgregor talks about China in a different way.
IMO the MSM is feeding us a lot of crap about Taiwan to provoke a war.
The MSM is not talking to the people of Taiwan any more than they talk to the people of Ukraine.
China does not want a war and neither do the people of Taiwan. They want the status quo. Macgregor talks about the Chinese culture. This talk of democracy ands human rights is mostly western propaganda.
At 10:30 below.
https://youtu.be/PV9To7L4P2k?t=635
Douglas Macgregor - Humiliating Russia and Making Terrible Mistakes
Douglas Macgregor Col
There is one major flaw to the status quo...it can ONLY lead to domination by the Chi-Coms...they would love to walk in unopposed but if they have to go in shooting I do not see them agonizing over the decision with something akin to Western moral qualms about whacking a half a million people to get it done, I just do not believe that for a second. Look what they've done in the area...they claim other nations territorial waters and islands, build military bases on them as well as make lots of artificial islands and make military installations on them as well solely on the principle of being there makes them theirs. I guess I am shocked MacGregor dismisses the benefit of the status quo to the Chi-Com's and equates their morality with anybody else's. Makes me wonder if he has an ulterior motive in throwing Taiwan aside, it would encourage them elsewhere and the entire Pacific Rim would be a Chi-Com hegemony. Maybe that's what he wants. Is he on a Chinese payroll, I think somebody needs to look.
Also, there is zero comparison between Ukraine & Taiwan IMO...they are totally different issues and one is far more geopolitically and strategically important security-wise! I think any comparison is weak-minded.
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I recall that the official US position is that Taiwan is part of China. I think that is written on a US govt web site.
What do the people of Taiwan want? I think there is a Taiwan presidential election coming up. I have no idea how much the US will try to influence the election. One analyst said that the US supported the protests/riots in Hong Kong knowing that the Chinese backlash would change public opinion in Taiwan against mainland China. It did have that effect. Just a theory.
What Taiwan has in common with Ukraine is that the US might well be happy seeing Taiwan destroyed in order to harm China, just as Ukraine is being destroyed in order to harm Russia. TSMC may end up like Nordstream. I am told that taking out TSMC would greatly harm the international supply chain, even if the new plant in US AZ gets completed. Some high end chips are only made in Taiwan.
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This host is pro China. His guest talks about the changes in Tibet he observed over time. He was there in 1990s and recently. Decreased poverty. Improved infrastructure, health, education. Students learn Tibetan and Mandarin. 6 units each per week.
https://youtu.be/CldtoYwPtMk
American Shares Truth on Xinjiang and Tibet Controversies in China
Cyrus Janssen
also
He says that Mandarin unites people in China because the dialects of Chinese varied greatly from village to village.
He said when he moved from northern China to Shanghai he heard a strange language and asked his wife if they were speaking Japanese. It was a Chinese dialect he did not understand. It is still used in local TV etc.
His guest is white/Jewish/Chinese.
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I recall that the official US position is that Taiwan is part of China. I think that is written on a US govt web site.
What do the people of Taiwan want? I think there is a Taiwan presidential election coming up. I have no idea how much the US will try to influence the election. One analyst said that the US supported the protests/riots in Hong Kong knowing that the Chinese backlash would change public opinion in Taiwan against mainland China. It did have that effect. Just a theory.
What Taiwan has in common with Ukraine is that the US might well be happy seeing Taiwan destroyed in order to harm China, just as Ukraine is being destroyed in order to harm Russia. TSMC may end up like Nordstream. I am told that taking out TSMC would greatly harm the international supply chain, even if the new plant in US AZ gets completed. Some high end chips are only made in Taiwan.
In Order:
In the end it only matters what Xi and his Politburo want.
Destruction can only happen if Taiwan is invaded and it is resisted, if it is not resisted then we are talking about surrender to Communist China and their military rolls in, the Communist arrest whoever they want, imprison whoever they want and execute whoever they want and do whatever they want in the island which inescapably will involve making it a military bastion with which to bully and threaten the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Japan. And by surrendering the people surrendering will be responsible for it all.
The US will obliterate the chip facilities rather than let the Chi-Coms get the spoils.
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This host is pro China. His guest talks about the changes in Tibet he observed over time. He was there in 1990s and recently. Decreased poverty. Improved infrastructure, health, education. Students learn Tibetan and Mandarin. 6 units each per week.
https://youtu.be/CldtoYwPtMk
American Shares Truth on Xinjiang and Tibet Controversies in China
Cyrus Janssen
also
He says that Mandarin unites people in China because the dialects of Chinese varied greatly from village to village.
He said when he moved from northern China to Shanghai he heard a strange language and asked his wife if they were speaking Japanese. It was a Chinese dialect he did not understand. It is still used in local TV etc.
His guest is white/Jewish/Chinese.
Subjugation isn't so bad, yay.
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This host is pro China. His guest talks about the changes in Tibet he observed over time. He was there in 1990s and recently. Decreased poverty. Improved infrastructure, health, education. Students learn Tibetan and Mandarin. 6 units each per week.
https://youtu.be/CldtoYwPtMk (https://youtu.be/CldtoYwPtMk)
American Shares Truth on Xinjiang and Tibet Controversies in China
Cyrus Janssen
also
He says that Mandarin unites people in China because the dialects of Chinese varied greatly from village to village.
He said when he moved from northern China to Shanghai he heard a strange language and asked his wife if they were speaking Japanese. It was a Chinese dialect he did not understand. It is still used in local TV etc.
His guest is white/Jewish/Chinese.
Subjugation isn't so bad, yay.
I recall some US person saying they had talked to a Chinese diplomat. The American asked why Tibet was not allowed to be independent and neutral. The Chinese guy said that weak countries like Tibet always fall under control of some other major power and China wanted it to be China. I also recall someone saying that once in Tibet, it is an easy path into China proper. So China wants the Himalayas guarding their southern border.
(https://www.wondersoftibet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Tibet-Topography-map.jpg)
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Videos come into my YT feed. One was some old interview with Chomsky. It was about language not politics as far as I let it run.
He said the idea of a standard national language is a modern feature. He said that people did not travel much and people in one village might not understand people in a village 20 miles away. I came across this also in discussions about the Russian and Ukrainian languages. The was little standardization and people were mostly illiterate in any language. I would think that Latin in the Roman empire would have been standardized. ???
There is an individual advantage to knowing some nationwide language. For educational and career advances for example. I only recently learned that in 21 of 22 Russian republics children are taught Russian plus some regional language(s). Apparently the same is true in parts of China.
In eastern Ukraine, the language of education had been parental choice. Some time after the 2014 coup, Kiev took that choice away in areas they controlled. In Crimea now I think the educational language is Russian plus choice of Ukrainian or Crimean Tartar. In Odessa the only option is Ukrainian now. Eli from Russia is a redhead blogger from Perm RU. She was taught Russian and Tartar in school. Her mom is pissed that her Tartar skills have lapsed.
I recall that bilingual education was the cool thing in California years ago. It was the Hispanic parents that ended that as their kids had crappy English skills even after HS. The program was more for the benefit of the higher paid ESL teachers.
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This host is pro China. His guest talks about the changes in Tibet he observed over time. He was there in 1990s and recently. Decreased poverty. Improved infrastructure, health, education. Students learn Tibetan and Mandarin. 6 units each per week.
https://youtu.be/CldtoYwPtMk (https://youtu.be/CldtoYwPtMk)
American Shares Truth on Xinjiang and Tibet Controversies in China
Cyrus Janssen
also
He says that Mandarin unites people in China because the dialects of Chinese varied greatly from village to village.
He said when he moved from northern China to Shanghai he heard a strange language and asked his wife if they were speaking Japanese. It was a Chinese dialect he did not understand. It is still used in local TV etc.
His guest is white/Jewish/Chinese.
Subjugation isn't so bad, yay.
I recall some US person saying they had talked to a Chinese diplomat. The American asked why Tibet was not allowed to be independent and neutral. The Chinese guy said that weak countries like Tibet always fall under control of some other major power and China wanted it to be China. I also recall someone saying that once in Tibet, it is an easy path into China proper. So China wants the Himalayas guarding their southern border.
(https://www.wondersoftibet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Tibet-Topography-map.jpg)
And India wants them to protect their northern border...
Such nice bedfellows...
::hysterical::
Note to small mountainous nations - be more like Switzerland, not Tibet!
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Videos come into my YT feed. One was some old interview with Chomsky. It was about language not politics as far as I let it run.
He said the idea of a standard national language is a modern feature. He said that people did not travel much and people in one village might not understand people in a village 20 miles away. I came across this also in discussions about the Russian and Ukrainian languages. The was little standardization and people were mostly illiterate in any language. I would think that Latin in the Roman empire would have been standardized. ???
There is an individual advantage to knowing some nationwide language. For educational and career advances for example. I only recently learned that in 21 of 22 Russian republics children are taught Russian plus some regional language(s). Apparently the same is true in parts of China.
In eastern Ukraine, the language of education had been parental choice. Some time after the 2014 coup, Kiev took that choice away in areas they controlled. In Crimea now I think the educational language is Russian plus choice of Ukrainian or Crimean Tartar. In Odessa the only option is Ukrainian now. Eli from Russia is a redhead blogger from Perm RU. She was taught Russian and Tartar in school. Her mom is pissed that her Tartar skills have lapsed.
I recall that bilingual education was the cool thing in California years ago. It was the Hispanic parents that ended that as their kids had crappy English skills even after HS. The program was more for the benefit of the higher paid ESL teachers.
Freedom of movement and information (somewhat) is also a modern feature, such is their nature...
Who gets to pick and choose what is truly good or truly unnecessary? On that score there is no consistency hence no legitimacy to criticize anybody doing anything...which IIRC is a central feature of Marxist ideology...which I find ironic and not happenstance...and also re-writing history to absolve one of past sins so as to demonize your opponents moral failures to your advantage is also a hallmark of Marxist contamination...
Such is the rot perpetuated by the corrupt One China BS...
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Jeez, even I who am someone who thinks checking the Chi-Coms in the Pacific Rim see this as reckless...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-says-its-talks-being-brought-under-us-nuclear-umbrella (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-says-its-talks-being-brought-under-us-nuclear-umbrella)
...too premature for that kind of crap, there are assets in the region for that hole card...no need to give them a 1962 moment to exploit...much better defense options under that threshold to exhaust...
Is this guy a Chi-Com plant stirring trouble?
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Geez. I wondered how the US govt would provoke Chinese attack. BTW the CCP/CPC enjoys a much higher approval rate than the US govt.
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Geez. I wondered how the US govt would provoke Chinese attack. BTW the CCP/CPC enjoys a much higher approval rate than the US govt.
Well, our continued slide into totalitarianism will get us caught up with them...
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"To be clear, we do not seek conflict or confrontation, but we will not flinch in the face of bullying or coercion."
Yeah, you stupendous candy-ass, the ChiComs understand you perfectly! (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-warship-nearly-collides-us-destroyer-taiwan-strait)
Weak and easily pushed around.
A shot across their bow would be a better message than the ones you are sending.
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I played a few documentaries on Chinese history. It is a much different place than the west. Very strange to me. This history, language, and culture influences how they think and act.
Also, there is a whole lot of history. Thousands of years of recorded history. IMO there are likely genetic differences from Caucasians on average. I would like to know more about what the people in Taiwan think and want.
I have heard something several times over many years. The CCP/CPC is very responsive to the what the people want. They are only 8-10% of the population but that is not 0.1%. The party is opaque to me and the west. I read about the Chinese elections. They are strange. Direct at low levels and indirect above those with heavy party influence on the direct elections. They are not like the west but they are not nothing either.
Then again, how are the EU officials selected? How do they compare to the CCP?
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In all nations its largely the elite choosing themselves...the difference being in China nobody goes anywhere without being hard-wired into The Party...same as under any communist nation or fascist nation...in the West it is merely the illusion of choice in many instances with some rare exceptions when mavericks slip in...
Hitler & Stalin did many good things for the majority of people...but does that make their systems good given the well-documented evil excesses?
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/japan-china-agree-on-reliable-operation-of-military-hotline-amid-tensions_5312549.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily&src_src=partner&src_cmp=TheLibertyDaily (https://www.theepochtimes.com/japan-china-agree-on-reliable-operation-of-military-hotline-amid-tensions_5312549.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily&src_src=partner&src_cmp=TheLibertyDaily)
How come the people of Taiwan don't deserve a hotline? ::pokeineye::
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https://discernreport.com/xi-jinping-is-preparing-china-for-a-war-with-the-united-states/
China has violence in mind...
https://discernreport.com/xi-jinping-is-preparing-china-for-a-war-with-the-united-states/
...gosh, who knew?
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Also, it would not be that hard to obliterate their amphibious assault before it reached Taiwan...one in which would not require nukes at all...but why mention it? I'm just not interested in influencing the game before hand...
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Lil' Beijing bitch Blinken toes the Chi-Com line...
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-blinken-in-china-says-we-do-not-support-taiwan-independence/
...and for his reward...he gets a third-rate fop to welcome him in China...
https://gellerreport.com/2023/06/antony-blinken-gets-humiliated-in-china.html/
...this pathetic illegitimate regime his not respected by anybody...
...me, I would say ::cussing:: you commies...I support Taiwan Independence! ::vafancoul::
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IMO Taiwan and China want to kick the can down the road. The US govt wants to provoke China into invading, then blame Xi as a thug etc. I think any invasion would be through missiles and aviation attacks. I always wondered how well those Chinese armed gyro copters would work. Maybe 10,000 of them. Cheaper than maybe 50 us fighters. Easy to fly.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/china-touts-gyrocopters-armed-with-anti-tank-missiles (https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/china-touts-gyrocopters-armed-with-anti-tank-missiles)
(https://www.thedrive.com/uploads/2022/07/25/Chinese-gyrocopter-with-anti-tank-missiles.jpg?auto=webp&crop=16%3A9&auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1920)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzujzO9WEAE9XDk?format=jpg&name=900x900)
https://youtu.be/OEkfMtgDBa0 (https://youtu.be/OEkfMtgDBa0)
PLA's combat gyrocopters
The War Zone
I fear what Chinese missiles would do to US carriers.
No one knows how well the Chinese military would fight. IMO the Chinese could mass manufacture missiles.
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10,000 of them...
...would be 30k dead.
::hysterical::
The commies could be easily thwarted in an invasion...I just don't think the woketards are capable of thinking it up let alone execute it...
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China is in trouble, Xi appears to have hit the second to last button of last resort - exhorting his
citizens captives to buy China, tour China, promote China...in the wake of bad news that is likely worse than reported (they cook their numbers too!)...collapsing property prices...bogus GDP missing a bogus target...slumping exports...slumping consumption numbers...no more stimulus room left in rates or monetary policy...unemployment in the young over (an understated) 21%...collapsing commercial values...foreign money leaving...their nominal middle class routinely seeing defections to less totalitarian nations...other nations withholding critical tech and other resource-driven conflicts...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/17/china-gdp-growth-down-economy-june-quarter-gross-domestic-profit (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/17/china-gdp-growth-down-economy-june-quarter-gross-domestic-profit)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-q2-gdp-growth-slows-08-qq-just-above-expectations-2023-07-17/ (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-q2-gdp-growth-slows-08-qq-just-above-expectations-2023-07-17/)
They are panicking...there is little more priming they can do, yet the party elite are promising it...from the production and consumption ends...
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-07-19/China-issues-guidelines-vows-to-boost-private-sector-1lzq6xWSWjK/index.html (https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-07-19/China-issues-guidelines-vows-to-boost-private-sector-1lzq6xWSWjK/index.html)
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-07-19/China-pledges-measures-to-bolster-growth-in-key-sectors-1lz4J7PpPPi/index.html (https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-07-19/China-pledges-measures-to-bolster-growth-in-key-sectors-1lz4J7PpPPi/index.html)
They can only do so much before adverse effects undo something else...
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3228250/chinas-economic-slowdown-have-global-repercussions-beyond-trade-hinder-current-account-recovery-imf (https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3228250/chinas-economic-slowdown-have-global-repercussions-beyond-trade-hinder-current-account-recovery-imf)
And interestingly, they have some pesky debt issues...
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3228201/china-junk-bonds-suffer-worst-slide-2023-repayment-woes-sino-ocean-wanda-shui-bear-brunt-selling (https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3228201/china-junk-bonds-suffer-worst-slide-2023-repayment-woes-sino-ocean-wanda-shui-bear-brunt-selling)
Lots going on and any/all of which can crimp resources and make importing what they really need (like Saudi oil) more difficult.
The Party elite can admit defeat and resign in total and turn over their entire leadership ranks (or Xi can "retire" them all) or they can go Plan W...I do not see any of the elite willingly walking away in disgrace nor do I see Xi having the time to sack all his key underlings and replacement them with new loyalists and enact any policy miracles to stave off disaster...so, I believe Plan W is in total play now - War!
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/chinese-president-exhorts-military-to-boost-combat-readiness/2939398 (https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/chinese-president-exhorts-military-to-boost-combat-readiness/2939398)
Nothing stimulates a stagnating economy like war and it also have the benefit of making edicts cracking down on dissenters easier to rationalize.
So, I expect the clock is ticking rather loudly for Taiwan and perhaps other regional nations with territory and resources the people's paradise covets.
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This cannot bode well for future peace in the region...
President Xi Jinping on Monday installed a new commander and a deputy to the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) elite Rocket Force unit, after weeks of speculation that its top leaders were in trouble.
In an unusual move, Mr Xi, who is also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), China’s top military command, presided over a ceremony promoting two officers to generals within the same force.
Former deputy navy chief Wang Houbin was named by the state media as commander of the Rocket Force, while Southern Theatre Command deputy political commissar Xu Xisheng has been promoted to the unit’s political commissar, who is the second in command.
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“This development would have caught most PLA watchers by surprise considering the three previous PLA Rocket Force commanders – Wei Fenghe, Zhou Yaning and Li Yuchao – were artillery officers,” said Dr James Char, who studies China’s military modernisation at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
“This is an unusual development and would only have further reinforced suspicions that something ominous is afoot within the PLA Rocket Force.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/xi-jinping-installs-new-rocket-force-leadership-amid-major-purge (https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/xi-jinping-installs-new-rocket-force-leadership-amid-major-purge)
A loyal administrator and a loyal zampolit over more experienced military leaders...yeah...I think regional neighbors ought to brace for impact...
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The reason I wrote this stuff below is that I have no idea as to why the rocket guys were replaced. it could be SO many reasons having nothing to do with the military.
I just finished the book Red Roulette and returned it to Ramsey county library system.
I could not begin to summarize it. Summarize Chinese history and culture for me. I watched a doc on how some concubine became de-facto ruler of China. Comparing that to present day I do not see much difference. The place intrigue today is incredible. The author was born poor but bright and athletic. He went to US Madison for business then returned and made a fortune. He married a smart, cunning woman who handled the political side and connections. She was later "disappeared." He lives in London with their son.
Macgregor said Xi wakes up every morning wondering how he can hold 1.4B people together and not suffer the same fate as previous emperors.
The author said he had a first dinner at 5 PM with supplicants, then a 6:30 dinner where he was the supplicant (not his words), then an 8 PM dinner with friends and equals because he was drunk by then. The sometimes tea after that. This was in private nightclubs where the firt priority was keeping different groups from seeing each other. That is how business was done.
Another good book was The Party by Macgregor (not the US col). It is dated as back then there was little control or censorship by govt. Now there is.
If you read these two books things will not become clearer. They will become more confused.
Col. Macgregor said Xi is acting as emperor and people are OK with that.
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Yeah...nothing to do with the actual operational side (pointy-end) of military leadership...that's the problem...he put in place of their strategic nuclear forces two inexperienced guys in anything remotely strategic and nuclear...
It's that simple, if that doesn't generate concern I don't know what else I can say...
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I just meant that the offered reasons for some govt actions may have nothing to do with the real reasons.
The the book I just finished the author said that two members of the standing committee for 'corruption' but it was really to place 2 Xi supporters on the committee as the committee can depose Xi.
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Seems Matt is talking to some people thinking along rational lines...
But this blockade could be problematic, lengthy and costly to get to a point whereby an invasion could succeed...
It could also be very much more problematic if America was not governed by insane scum and the military led by a bunch of woke prancing fools...
So I would expect action before rolling into 2025...
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Looks like the countdown just sped up...Xi says reunification is coming...
Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided, according to three current and former U.S. officials.
Xi told Biden in a group meeting attended by a dozen American and Chinese officials that China’s preference is to take Taiwan peacefully, not by force, the officials said.
The Chinese leader also referenced public predictions by U.S. military leaders who say that Xi plans to take Taiwan in 2025 or 2027, telling Biden that they were wrong because he has not set a time frame, according to the two current and one former official briefed on the meeting.
I kind of expected the White House to deny that this exchange took place, but that did not happen…
The White House didn’t deny the exchange, which occurred during a Nov. 15 summit outside San Francisco that was attended by a dozen US and Chinese officials.
“I’m not gonna get into the specifics of the discussion between the two leaders,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Air Force One en route to Milwaukee.
Wow.
So why isn’t everyone in America talking about this?
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-why-a-war-between-the-united-states-and-china-is-inevitable/ (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-why-a-war-between-the-united-states-and-china-is-inevitable/)
Why? Grow up, Mikey...the DemoNazi presstitutes don't care...war and global annihilation are fine...shredding the Constitution and preventing Trump from returning to the White House is all they are obsessed with...they'd be thrilled if world war broke out...then The Kenyan's corrupt puppet would declare martial law and there wouldn't be an election...there would instead however be a civil war along with that global war...
Wouldn't that be special?
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Chairman Xi - The countdown to taking Taiwan by force has begun!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/01/chairman-xi-new-year-message-about-tiawan-china-will-surely-be-reunified/
And the compromised FJB giving his Eastern Master all he wants doesn't seem to be satiating the ravenous appetite of the Red Dragon...
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...soon the Pacific Rim will run red with Chi-Com's and the blood of its victims.
I would Seriously look to be GTFO of Taiwan if I had the means.
Next target will likely be the Philippines...
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I find this to be a very thoughtful article...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/exclusive-are-deep-staters-globalists-trying-give-away/ (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/exclusive-are-deep-staters-globalists-trying-give-away/)
...idiots in the DeepState it seems can only make war more inevitable...
...without a credible and committed deterrence Chi-Com aggression is assured and great suffering of the Taiwanese people and US credibility will suffer, along with material American lives and assets in any half-assed actions...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/china-pummeled-dire-deflation-trade-and-credit-data-labor-strikes-protests-explode (https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/china-pummeled-dire-deflation-trade-and-credit-data-labor-strikes-protests-explode)
Contracting economy, debt...restless youth...fear of more strikes and (gasp) aspirations of revolution!
They'd deserve it...
But, stimulate their way out? Sure, nothing more stimulating than war...
Their crap economy will have them seeing a Taiwan invasion as a win-win for them...blind to anything else...
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Beijing is butthurt...
https://twitter.com/DrLiMengYAN1/status/1746168586094395714 (https://twitter.com/DrLiMengYAN1/status/1746168586094395714)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/taiwan-election-global-leaders-draw-beijings-ire-for-congratulating-new-president (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/taiwan-election-global-leaders-draw-beijings-ire-for-congratulating-new-president)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67920530?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67920530?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA)
And, perhaps the people were not interested in letting external forces of any kind determine their own fate, eh?
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I wondered about this...looks to be accurate...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-establishes-new-stockpile-australia-prepare-war-over-taiwan (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-establishes-new-stockpile-australia-prepare-war-over-taiwan)
...they seemed to linger in-port longer than I had expected.
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What would a “Soft Invasion” of Taiwan look like?
A silly header...nothing "soft" about Chi-Com boots on the ground!
But, the possible CCP plan could be closer to truth. I would merely add there has to be a feint on the West coast and lots of air action (and from more than coastal bases)...and those islands (especially close to the mainland are really only most useful for spotting and being the first canaries in the coal mine. And the islands North of the Philippines are also certainly on the CCP menu, especially since most assets staged are in Guam and North Australia and in Luzon, Philippines.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/what-would-soft-invasion-taiwan-look-like/ (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/what-would-soft-invasion-taiwan-look-like/)
And there would be a lot of naval activity happening and the response would fall on our capital ships (carriers & Amphibs), the Marines and Air Force. And how wild it gets determines how bloody it gets.