Posted on 08/17/2021 6:20:09 AM PDT by dynachrome
A senior US senator, also a member of US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on his social media revealed that the US has 30,000 soldiers stationed in China's Taiwan island. If the tweet is correct, it is a military invasion and occupation of China's Taiwan and equivalent to the US declaring war on China. China could immediately activate its Anti-Secession Law to destroy and expel US troops in Taiwan and reunify Taiwan militarily, some experts noted.
Some others believe the news leaked by the US senator cannot be true because 30,000 is not some small amount that the US Army could hide and not being noticed in the island, and the US has nothing to gain by stationing the US Army in the island. Sacrificing its own interests to satisfy Taiwan separatists also does not fit with US foreign policy, just like the US did in Afghanistan.
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No one should be tweeting about how many troops we have anywhere. What an idiot.
Even if he meant 3000, it was wrong.
I hope so.
Nixon should have never recognized mainland China.
John “Wayne” Cornyn is a RINO’s RINO.
That’s great 20/20 hindsight, but one must see Nixon’s decision in the geopolitical context of that time.
could be reference to the ships we have in that area.
Seems like a dumb idea to tweet that out.
Global Times is a CCP mouthpiece. But Cornyn is a RINO who has disclosed security matters before.
Is this the pivot?
From Afghanistan to China?
How? The Cretin RINO is as demented as Kabul Joe and his cackling sidekick.
I find it hard to believe we have 30,000 troops there. Propaganda or not, the story is right in that a number that large would be impossible to hide.
Good point.
But reading the news of the time, and talking with those who were there, the risks were known.
Trying to split of one repressive communist regime from another was short sighted. Abandoning an ally to do it idiotic.
If it’s a CCP mouthpiece, then this sounds like they’re ginning up a reason for war. I think they want one.
Haha. That would be a pretty stupid pivot.
Yeah, that's why it makes perfect sense that the Biden Administration is doing just that.
Even if the number is really 3000 troops he should be taken off the committee.
From the Taiwan article:
“The last time the U.S. had 30,000 soldiers based in Taiwan was in the midst of the Vietnam War in the late 60s and early 70s”
(Cornyn’s tweet is gone now)
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