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Taiwan Activates Defense, Puts Jets in Air After Incursion by China
Red State ^ | 12/24/2022 | Nick Arama

Posted on 12/24/2022 8:31:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/24/2022 8:31:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This is all a feint. China will invade Siberia long before they waste effort on Taiwan.


2 posted on 12/24/2022 8:35:51 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The Communists are always threatening and intimidating but, they will not actually invade. Why? The Chinese actually understand that their military personnel is totally unprepared for an extended Hot War.
Their personnel preparedness level is on par(at best) or less in relation to the Russians. That level is a hairs breath above incompetent. And, a football field distance wrt motivated.


3 posted on 12/24/2022 8:40:18 PM PST by ocrp1982
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I’m pretty sure Stalin said quantity was more important than quality.


4 posted on 12/24/2022 9:02:41 PM PST by rellic
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To: SeekAndFind
National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby even said that they don’t support Taiwan’s independence

That has been United States policy for 50 years, under ten Presidents.

Get with the program.

5 posted on 12/24/2022 9:06:54 PM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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“I’m pretty sure Stalin said quantity was more important than quality.”
He did. But, that was a completely different time. With completely different technology. Today, massed quantities simply mean a great many more deaths in a much more compressed timeframe.


6 posted on 12/24/2022 9:08:47 PM PST by ocrp1982
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To: rellic

Yes, he did. It’s called attrition.


7 posted on 12/24/2022 9:26:12 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ocrp1982

Judging from how the Chinese military is building up,
I suspect they aren’t learning any lessons, just copying old tactics.
Innovation is forbidden in their culture. Confucius says so.
They killed off all the innovative individuals.
I do have one question, since they killed off a good percentage of daughters with the one child policy, how will their society react when thousands to millions of their young sons die?


8 posted on 12/24/2022 9:33:31 PM PST by rellic
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To: rellic

“I do have one question, since they killed off a good percentage of daughters with the one child policy, how will their society react when thousands to millions of their young sons die?”
Their society is Totalitarian. They may well respond by outlawing all contraceptives and proclaiming the Death Penalty for anyone who does not adhere to their mandates.
Exactly as they do to this day for any blatant violation of current policy.


9 posted on 12/24/2022 11:47:56 PM PST by ocrp1982
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“Their society is Totalitarian.”
I disagree. My education is they are very Communal.
They may have emperors or dictators, but they have a layer of people that run the governance that pretty much do as they damn well please as long as you go along to get along.
The USA is the same way as are most all modern governments.


10 posted on 12/25/2022 12:11:35 AM PST by rellic
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To: rellic

You’re a dupe or a fool or a tool.


11 posted on 12/25/2022 12:33:20 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: rellic

“Their society is Totalitarian.”
“I disagree. My education is they are very Communal.”
LMAO. The naivete, ignorance, or perhaps just plain stupidity of that statement is mindblowing.
I hate to tell you but, your “education” isn’t worth spit. The Communist Chinese gov’t is little different than any other totalitarian gov’t. Anyone or anything perceived as a legitimate threat to them is dealt with harshly.
The limit of their “communalism” ends as soon as they perceive the slightest threat to their system of total domination of their people.


12 posted on 12/25/2022 12:34:41 AM PST by ocrp1982
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To: MeganC
This is all a fein?

You mean ChiCom may be trying to copycat in WW2 IJN attack at Alieutia but intended long planned target Midway island?

Let's hope ChiCom don't make mistake getting inside Taiwan's ADIZ their warplanes getting shot down that would start catastrophic long-range missile exchange?

13 posted on 12/25/2022 1:02:30 AM PST by wannabegeek
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A Chinese Red army officer defector taught me Mandarin for two years.
And Chinese culture. Do you have that education?
Y’all can’t use Western values with Han Chinese.


14 posted on 12/25/2022 1:31:39 AM PST by rellic
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“A Chinese Red army officer defector taught me Mandarin for two years. And Chinese culture. Do you have that education?
Y’all can’t use Western values with Han Chinese.”
LMAO. You don’t understand a culture simply because you learn a language.
Han Chinese culture is NOT Communist Chinese Culture. No more than Judeo/Christian Constitutional Conservative American values are Democrat Socialist/Woke values. smh
God save this country from people like you. Well meaning Damned fools.


15 posted on 12/25/2022 1:44:53 AM PST by ocrp1982
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You got it all wrong once again.
China is The Han people.
I’d kill every soldier in China if I had the chance.
Many Chinese are like our Democrats, Lock step idiots.
I just appreciate the Chinese culture.
Taught us a lot.
If you can’t learn things that
seem alien to your culture,
you aren’t very bright.


16 posted on 12/25/2022 1:53:22 AM PST by rellic
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“You got it all wrong once again. China is The Han people.”
No, YOU don’t get it. Matters not what the average Chinese culture is. Even if what you assert is true. Which it’s not. Otherwise, the country would not have become and remained Communist and has been for many decades.
However, let’s just say you are correct. It matters not. The gov’t is godless Communists who rule over the people with no concern whatsoever about the “Han” Culture, or any other historical Chinese culture you seem fixated upon.
In fact, like ALL totalitarian systems they rely upon people to spy upon and report upon anyone straying from the Gov’ts mandated Group Think. And, the majority of the Chinese aid and abet in this spying and betrayal of any non-Communists.


17 posted on 12/25/2022 2:09:10 AM PST by ocrp1982
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The country isn’t Communist.
It is historical Chinese.
It is what they always have been.
You don’t get it.
You can’t honestly think over a billion people are going to adopt the philosophy of a German Soy boy?
Marx lived off his parents.
They are being Chinese.


18 posted on 12/25/2022 2:17:02 AM PST by rellic
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To: MeganC

They might well do a “partial” war type thing like declaring a de-facto blockade. They have several options.

One would be to declare that ships transiting Taiwanese waters need to register their travel with Beijing and obtain permission first. That’s a way of asserting control by forcing shippers and other third parties to, effectively, kowtow.

An escalation would be to require the same of any ships transiting Taiwanese waters on the way to Japan or Korea.


19 posted on 12/25/2022 2:24:42 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: ocrp1982

An actual invasion would be, tactically, very difficult. There are few landing beaches and Taiwan has vast firepower available to cover them. It’s not about deploying millions of men, it’s about getting a few hundred ships unloaded in the face of thousands of hidden, fortified artillery pieces.


20 posted on 12/25/2022 2:28:29 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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