Posted on 08/18/2021 8:15:51 AM PDT by rickmichaels
China today threatened to 'crush' any US troops stationed on Taiwan as it conducts live fire drills in the South China Sea after Joe Biden abandoned Afghanistan.
An editorial in the regime-backed Global Times lashed out at a since-deleted tweet by Senator John Cornyn which erroneously stated there were 30,000 American soldiers stationed in Taiwan.
The bombastic propaganda article said: 'It is equivalent to a military invasion and occupation of the Taiwan Province of China. It is an act of declaring war on the People's Republic of China ...
'It is believed that China will immediately put the Anti-Secession Law into use, destroy and expel US troops in Taiwan by military means, and at the same time realize reunification by force.'
China conducted naval exercises south of Taiwan on Tuesday in the latest show of strength to the US and its allies which are still reeling from their chaotic retreat from Afghanistan.
Although China is the dominant power in east Asia, many of its neighbours like Taiwan and Japan look to the US as their closes military partner. Beijing, therefore, revels in anything which undermines Washington's credibility.
Chinese state media pumped out the images of desperate Afghans flooding Kabul airport in an effort to flee on Monday as a sign of the chaos prompted by the US retreat.
On Tuesday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Washington had left 'an awful mess of unrest, division and broken families' in Afghanistan.
'America's strength and role is destruction, not construction.'
State media has peddled the idea that America's rush from Afghanistan reflects its fair-weather attitude to all allies - including in Taiwan, which seeks strength from Washington's security guarantee as it defies Beijing.
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Meanwhile, anything popping in Ukraine?
LOLZ! Our our soldiers going to gay-marry them?
This is gong on and they want us to worry about the sea level 100 years from now...
Can I buy some pot from you?
You misunderstood my point. Yes, I believe we are responsible for assisting Taiwan in defending itself from China, but I doubt we will do so with the administration and DOD we have now. If China hasn’t already bought and paid for them, Biden and Gen. Milley are both too weak and incompetent, if not plain frightened to go to war. So, if I am correct, China has a green light and will not hesitate to sacrifice a million people to take Taiwan back.
We disengaged from Afghanistan so we could focus our efforts on kicking China’s ass if they step out of line.
Can I buy some pot from you?
Not big on the THC thing, but thanks for the offer.
The way things are going, I may just need some in the near future.
Seriously, the Adults in the Trump Admin looked at force readiness needs to confront China and at the $40-$50 billion we were pounding down the Afghanistan rat hole every year and made the right decision.
So the original decision to withdraw from the sandbox was made with China in mind.
Afghanistan’s collapse will hopefully be a wake up call
That’s Trump, but that’s not Biden’s. Biden’s plan is to take advantage of the chaos to dump thousands of Afghan refugees on this country.
Yes the Taiwan people will fight tooth and nail. Unfortunately the average citizen there is unarmed and untrained for firearm use. I have talked personally with some of the military I have met. They will fight to the death and are well trained.
China can do it... the only time our military is ‘touch’ is when they’re talking about going after conservative American citizens.
Joke Biden: Bought & Paid for by the Chinese, blackmailed by the Russians.
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