Posted on 12/22/2022 8:37:42 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
China sent 39 aircraft and three warships on military drills toward Taiwan on Thursday in a show of force against the self-governing democratic island nation.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said officials detected the aircraft and vessels around 6 a.m. and were closely monitoring the military drills.
Thirty of the Chinese aircraft crossed over the median line of the Taiwan Strait, the ministry added in a Twitter post.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the name for China’s forces, sent various warplanes in a southwest direction toward the southeastern region of the island before doubling back.
The PLA has recently conducted several drills around Taiwan but Thursday’s military activity was the largest in several months.
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Does China have a version of our Monroe Doctrine?
No time like the present to make hay!
Got a weakling in the White Hut, go for the throat!
America sure screwed up. How are we stuck with the putrid pieces of stupid and greedy crap running this place?
$100B for Ukraine, and won’t ship weapons to the Taiwanese that they purchased.
Biden is not only a demented, horrible, corrupt person, he’s compromised by the Chinese.
“America sure screwed up. How are we stuck with the putrid pieces of stupid and greedy crap running this place?”
A reflection of those that support this administration.
“the self-governing democratic island nation” -— Aren’t most nations “self-governing?”
The coward in chief will let this happen
We are now scrounging weapons and ammunition from our active duty units to sent to Ukraine. We are no longer in a position to conduct a sustained combat operation.
China is taking advantage of that.
Thanks, free traitors.
We will respond with . . . no our bombers have been grounded. Let’s send them a sternly written note.
He’s bought and paid for.
There has been no possibility of a US military defense of Taiwan since 1983, probably not since 1973 - whoever is President.
Not nations that consider themselves part of a larger entity. Until very recently the government on Taiwan considered themselves the legitimate government of China proper...
Don’t misconstrue this, I’m very much pro-Taiwan.
China’s version of the Monroe doctrine is that every nation that shares a border with China is a legitimate target for conquest.
It’s going to be $147 billion soon enough…
That would be your version of China’s doctrine.
That’s a political decision, based on “engagement” with the CCP, which of course starts in ‘72.
It’s routinely gamed - a mixture of indigenous defense capabilities with external aid, enough to cause unacceptable indigestion to the aggressor. But it depends on political will, which has been completely sapped starting with Kissinger and turbocharged by NWO initiatives like MFN that have led to “Nationalist China” being replaced with “errant province” rhetoric from Washington of all places.
The Big Guy approves.
So you and I agree, then, that all this war talk and wargaming about US-China and Biden is just hot air?
I mean, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama and Trump would not have made war on China either, right?
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