• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
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    14 hours ago

    You mark my words: Russia is one thing, but the very second the US is suitably distracted with internal affairs and can be counted on to be unable to respond, Taiwan gets invaded over night. And that shit will spiral out of control very quickly, because China won’t stop there, and nobody else wants to have to learn Mandarin in the mandatory reeducation camp (or at all). Oh, I do beg your pardon, I meant to say “Harmonization Retreat”. In Mandarin, obviously. Wouldn’t want to compromise my social credit score.

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      10 hours ago

      Why? They want Taiwan for its leverage in the silicon industry and for reinforced access to the Pacific Ocean. They really don’t have any other military targets on their radar, unlike the USA which spent the last 70 years basically pissing all over the world even after the USSR fell. If you want proof, look at Pakistan. They threw billions of dollars at it, yet its a 100% shill platform for the US. They don’t really care about controlling it so long as they are getting paid and Pakistan continues to buffer India.

      US is suitably distracted with internal affairs and can be counted on to be unable to respond

      You seriously overestimate the US being “distracted” by internal affairs. I even doubt they’d recall forces around Taiwan during a hypothetical civil war. If anything, they’d see the insane value of ending a civil war by baiting China to attack.

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        9 hours ago

        Why? Because CCP and dictator Xi literally said they would countless times. Taiwan is an emberassment for CCP and the authoritarians can’t have that. The only reason China didn’t invade Taiwan as of yet is because they couldn’t and as soon as they can they will, that’s literally the official stance.

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        14 hours ago

        I don’t deny it, even though I’m not sure what ‘empire’ you’re referring to. The US presumably? Yeah, I live a little closer to China than that, and am generally not inclined to agree with the US on anything much these days.