Posted on 09/11/2023 9:43:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
* US President Joe Biden said China's economic problems could keep Beijing from invading Taiwan.
* Biden said Chinese President Xi Jinping has his "hands full" with China's economic issues.
* Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has been stepping up military drills around the island.
China's probably too busy with its economic crisis to bother about invading Taiwan, US President Joe Biden said on Sunday.
China's "difficult economic problem" currently is unlikely to cause the country to invade Taiwan, Biden said at a press conference during his state visit to Hanoi in Vietnam, according to a recording on the White House's YouTube channel.
Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has been stepping up military drills around this island in recent months, prompting fears about an invasion.
"I don't think it's going to cause China to invade Taiwan, matter of fact the opposite, probably doesn't have the same capacity as it had before," said Biden in response to a question on whether Beijing could be more aggressive toward Taiwan due to China's economic issues.
Biden cited the country's real-estate crisis and a record-high youth unemployment rate as economic problems Chinese President Xi Jinping is handling right now — which is why the two leaders have not met in 10 months, he said.
"He has his hands full right now," said Biden, referring to Xi.
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My understanding is that the diplomatic handover has already happened. There won’t be any kinetic action.
/sigh
I am of the opinion that when authoritarian countries are in deep financial crisis, they turn to warfare to distract their populations.
IOW, Biden has it backwards.
That’s comforting
“Come into my parlor.” said the spider to the fly...............
China's internal problems are precisely why they are likely to invade Taiwan!!!
So china is going to invade Taiwan in the near future.
The Chinese real estate crisis could be solved by rebating parts of the urban land lease payments.
All urban land in China is government owned.
Biden is wrong! If anything, going to war is frequently used to cover a government's failures.
I don’t know, but China needs women and Taiwan has them.
Plusmthe country is serioisly physically effed up from the last three typhoons that hit in the last few weeks.
Joe is stupid
If you read stuff from the far east you will find that aside from the people profiting from the west, the rank and file Taiwanese dont care one way or the other. They already travel to and from China on a regular basis. They import a ton of stuff from China. They are ethnic Chinese.
The only people getting worked up about a Chinese “invasion” are the folks who want to make money from military contracts.
China would not have the capability to invade Taiwan for years. And that’s only if they put their minds to it. They have bigger fish to fry at home and with Russia.
“a record-high youth unemployment rate”
China has pampered children who refuse to “eat bitterness” which in English means to “suck it up”, which in China means doing factory work.
Don’t wars usually jump start an economy?
For the winners...............
from Google:
“https://www.ncsl.org › state-federal › presidents-fy-20...
Mar 27, 2023 — President Joe Biden released the federal budget for fiscal year 2024 on March 9. The $6.9 trillion spending measure’s proposed big-ticket ...”
Biden is proposing federal spending in excess of $20,000 per American for fiscal year 2024.
Yes I agree and that’s why I find it highly likely that reports of the diplomatic handover are true.
Does Taiwan stand a chance?
Biden ALWAYS has it Backwards. 50yrs in the senate proved that. That’s his gift. Always do the opposite of what Biden says and success is almost guaranteed.
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