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08-08-22, 06:00 AM | #286 | |
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Then today this was served to my breakfast
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08-08-22, 06:30 AM | #287 |
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There is no need to "interpret" anything. The writing is on the wall, in bold capital letters, and best advise is to take them by their word. They mean what they say.
The bonly qussiton is: are we, is the the US willing to wage a major war over Taiwan, yes or no. If the answer is yes, the outocme is open at best., If the answer is no, China will sooner or later gain a major tool to take hostage the world economy and we will deopend on them as much as Germany now depends on Russian gas. That is unacceptable, and nhats why I think war is inevitable. Question is whether the US sees it this way, too. I have doubts. Often things are not complicated at all - but it takes man some more time to admit he already realised the unwelcomed consequences. That what all the weaseling and indifference is about. They call that optimism. I call it brain damage that increases the costs.
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08-08-22, 06:45 AM | #288 | |
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The problem here is that Taiwan aren't interested in being a part of China not now and not later. Markus
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08-08-22, 06:59 AM | #289 |
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The funny part is that just a few decades ago, the roles were reverse. It were Taiwan's Chiang Kai-Shek who claimed all of China for Taiwan.
China'S Xi nowadays does away with the old icon o the Communist reovlution in China, Mao, who had installed the rule that no leader shall ever have more than two terms at the helmn of the state. He not only wants a third term - he wants it for life, and an inherited transfer of power to members of his family. If you are optimistic you can call this an imperial dynasty order. If you are realistic, you call it what Russia also is: a mobster's personal enrichment Mafia paradise with an attached slaughterhouse and brain surgery center for disagreeable ethnic groups.
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08-08-22, 07:00 AM | #290 |
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So, in response to Pelosi's visit, China is holding military exercises that literally surround the island...wouldn't it be something if the exercises suddenly turned into the real thing?
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08-08-22, 07:43 AM | #291 |
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It could very well turn into a lasting blockad, which it de facto almost already is. If I recall it corretcly we have had than two deacdes ago or, an dit lasted for months. But my memory is no certain there.
Right now it also is about exhausting the Taiwanese servicemen, namely their fighter pilots. The must run multiple times as many launches than their continental foes who enjoy the luxury of much higher numbers and regeneration inbetween. Psycho games. And they do cost mental and physical power, it is inevitable.
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08-08-22, 12:59 PM | #292 | |
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Do you agree in this analysis ?
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08-08-22, 01:27 PM | #293 |
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Its a realistic view.
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08-08-22, 01:36 PM | #294 |
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And oh so funnily enough they have announced said exercises will last for a month. Plenty of time to amass whatever they feel appropriate imho.
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08-09-22, 07:50 AM | #297 |
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US politician Nancy Pelosi's visit has set off fresh tensions between self-ruled Taiwan and China, which claims the island as part of its territory. BBC correspondents weigh in on the significance of China's main response - its live-fire military drills around the island - and how the two sides see them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/62460809
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08-11-22, 07:43 AM | #298 |
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China says it has completed nearly a week of military drills around Taiwan following a visit to the self-governing island by US politician Nancy Pelosi.
Sea and air operations were successful, said China's military, which vowed to keep patrolling the Taiwan Strait. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-62492350
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08-14-22, 06:06 AM | #299 |
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08-14-22, 06:47 AM | #300 |
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I'm not.
"People's Republic" is already a lie. Case closed.
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