Game Over
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The end of American hegemony and the age of multipolarity is here.
Japan, Taiwan and South Korea need to bury the hatchet and work together as a check on the CCP.
Well, maybe Japan and South Korea. I strongly suspect Taiwan is going to be under new management soon.
Taiwan needs to really get their shit together fast and make an alliance with Japan and South Korea before the CCP invades them.
What does Taiwan have to offer that would make Japan and South Korea throwing themselves under the bus an attractive prospect for them?
If China goes all-in on Taiwan, unless the US stops them (and with Biden's handlers in charge, they won't), they're not getting stopped. About the best you can hope for is go Swiss and make conquering you expensive enough that you're not worth the bother.
Japan and South Korea should fear that if Taiwan is conquered, they are at risk of being eventually subjugated by China in the not too distant future.
China probably won't be stopped easily but making it as hard as possible for them is the best option Taiwan has.
Taiwan is the buffer zone and early warning system between china and their countries. Chinese aggression will be significantly more difficult unless tawian is taken first.
Japan and Korea are historical enemies of each other and China.
With Vietnam and India. And Australia.
In Indonesia they traditionally HATE the Chinese, even the local ones (whom they massacred many times).
Philippines is a wild card for how merculiar Duterte is. Currently he's happy with being a mad king of a Chinese vassal state. But he's also repeatedly bragged of having personally thrown a Chinese man from a helicopter.
In before the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Duterte is a mess and the Philippines are a mess. I had high hopes for him, but he is exactly what you say: a mad king under the thumb of China.
My in-laws are still locked in their house, essentially. My father in law got his clotshot just so he could go to the grocery store, and now for the first time in his life has some (mild thus far) heart issues.
My MIL just recently caved and got it as well, because she hadn't left her house in over a year due to restrictions.
Wife is not happy-- but all we can do is pray.
I suspect that China has been on top of this for a while now. Duterte speaks one way about China but acts another. Moon Jae-In of SK has been much more favorable to China than the US of late (at least that was my sense when I lived over there prior to 2020) - I suspect China played into his ambitions of being the great Korean unifier -- and I wonder if Trump's dalliances with NK were in part to foil Chinese/SK cooperation on the issue.
China has fortified their position in the SEA sphere - they know where their enemies are and they have plans to neutralize them or make their lives difficult.
Meanwhile the US Government has basically been bought and paid for by the CCP -- and the populace goes on with nary a care, as long as they get their cheap Chinese goods, they don't care.
This is one of the WEF & UN stated goals in their 2030 push.