They make moves already, Taiwan will be gone soon
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Doubtful. It's saber-rattling. Same with the constant scramble of the airforces, same with the provoking in the South China Sea. Taiwan is in a good position where if China does try any shit they have 2 strategic assets
The fact that Taiwan has also stepped up local arm production to not rely anymore on American arms-deals goes to show the shift in focus of everyone relying on America and instead needing to fend for themselves. Taiwan has friends, they have to pretend it doesn't exist though for it to exist.
Fickle.
Since when have economics and reality been a concern for starting a war, or socialists.
The regime only needs the public to think they have a big penis, or his authority collapses and he gets hung from a lamppost.
A war can enlarge the regime's dong, and that's all they care about.
Biden has also been surprising solid on Taiwan, as well as a lot of trade leaving China for other nations (not entirely Biden’s doing, a lot of companies are leaving because they are sick of having their shit stolen). And I know Bannon has been making the same point about chips and saying it may be the thing that would actually make the elite put up a fight.
Additionally, Xi has started to crack down on foreign investment due to pressure from the more traditionally Communist wing of the party, and it’s actually starting to get the attention of investors like Bloomberg, to the point they are finally starting to say “Hey, wait a minute. Maybe it isnt such a good idea to invest in China.”
We have also started seeing a lout of countries moving from the China to USA camp, if for no other reason than “You may be in the grip of retardation right now, but there is at least a chance you will change back. And China is clearly evil.”
And this is before we get into the fact that there is a fair amount of evidence to suggest the Chinese military is a paper tiger using old Soviet tricks to make themselves look tougher than they actually are.
I am not denying that the Taiwanese military is garbage. I am saying that the Chinese military, after you look past their face, aint much better. You have officers who are in charge through corruption or party loyalty, which is the sort of situation that lead to the Soviets getting spanked on by the equally underequipped and outdated Finnish military.
You have Chinese soldiers who dont believe in their own abilities, but hide it out of fear. I remember a post made on the Chinese Twitter equivalent, where they were all getting hyped up and talking about the glory of taking over Taiwan. Then on soldier got the nerve to pipe up and say something to the effect of "While I dont doubt we would do it, is it possible we have a little more time to train? you know, just to be sure." Que the overall commander of the Chinese military coming in to tell him "If you ever say anything like that to disrupt morale again, I will ensure you are in the first wave with the commandos attacking the bunkers, and if you show any cowardice I will shoot you myself." Because history shows that forced soldiers do spectacular jobs in warfare and totally dont cut and run the first opportunity they see.
There is also far more will to win against China than anything to do with Afghanistan. And that applies to a lot of the nations in the region, who woke up REAL fast when Hong Kong got steam rolled. The Kiwis will be a thorn in the side because they seem to still be backing China, and the Philippines is in a stalemate (Duterte is Pro-China, but most of the government and population is Pro-US). But Australia just kicked the Chinese out and took back a lot of their shit, Japan is talking about taking up the sword and reembracing Bushido, the S. Koreans are looking at carriers and going "Where can we get one of those?", and India is ready to go screaming over the mountains to dish out of revenge on China. This wont be a nearly one-sided affair like Afghanistan was.
Maybe I am wrong. Maybe Taiwan is Kill. But I am not so blackpilled on the situation, and I think that it is still a war we can win. It just that now there may BE a war when we could have avoided it before.
The biggest problem for Taiwan wold be that it is thoroughly penetrated with agents of the PRC.
I would not be surprised if half of tis generals and pilots were PRC agents.
How could it be otherwise?
Big oof if that's the state of their army
The CIA also constantly outbids China on the black market to keep things like F-16 parts and other essential parts for tanks and vehicles from getting into their hands. They have several good jets and tanks BUT they're a finite resource that can't be replaced or even repaired easily.....Supposedly they've resorted to using standard tractor, bus and road work vehicle (Komatsu and CATERPILLAR mostly) parts available to anyone to fix certain military assets so their combat readiness is suspect at best.
"Additionally, Xi has started to crack down on foreign investment due to pressure from the more traditionally Communist wing of the party, and it’s actually starting to get the attention of investors like Bloomberg, to the point they are finally starting to say “Hey, wait a minute. Maybe it isnt such a good idea to invest in China.”
THIS is what's most likely to fuck China the most. The old guard commies wanting to be Maoist lite and pushing Ping to do it.
At least from what I have heard, a lot of manufactures are starting to leave China now. A consequence of the population bomb that China is currently going through (due to their One-Child Policy blowing up in their face) is that Chinese labor is no longer as cheap as it used to be. So now you have companies, who were already sick and tired of having their IP stolen and then sold back to them for pennies, looking for new nations to build out into. I have seen it with my own job, where a lot of the clothing we sell has gone from "Made in China" to "Made in Guatemala", "Made in El Salvador", and I have seen some of our new shoes with "Made in Vietnam".
I also remember Walmart saying they were going to move a lot of their production to India. And since Walmart is the largest importer in the country, a lot of smaller companies will piggyback on their trade routes because its cheaper that way.
I really do think a lot of what we are seeing go down with China is them being at the end of their rope and starring down a "Collapse of the Soviet Union" tier event, and they are scrambling to make it stop.
Don't think it'll got full Soviet collapse but it'll hurt them, probably bring them back to where they were after the tienamen square massacre and if we're REALLY lucky they'll start having the full Soviet in a few years or so. They're sneaky as fuck too, they label things made in other countries and have them shipped through allies like Pakistan and Cambodia to the open market or just stick them straight on Amazon, Ebay and Etsy without middleman and labeled as either Hong Kong or not disclosed unless you look at the city it's shipping from AFTER the purchase which is always a mainland city, specifically Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen being the usual spots.....Not to mention the popularity of Wish and Alibaba.
To learn who rules over you simply find out who you must pretend doesn't exist, something something.
Japan recently changed their constitution to allow the JDF to deploy to other nations to defend their allies. Well, a few years ago anyhow.
Why would Joe "2 Stacks" Biden not accommodate the Chinese Communists?
Exactly. In 8 months, the US government is seen as not politically reliable enough to defend allied interests, let alone it's own.