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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Absent Shanghai and Guangzhou will what’s left of China really matter?
Xi’s question is..... is Taiwan worth the loss of Shanghai and Guangzhou to just two or three missiles?
“The question is will the ripe plum fall into their lap o will they have to climb to get it.”
Ladders can be dangerous.
The results were not good.
We are adapting to it's lessons.
Now our generals don't have Afghanistan to occupy their time and justify their existence so the focus will naturally shift to more pressing issues.
...the cost to China may be too much for the CCP to bear.
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Sorry to disagree but China is a Communist country which means they don’t give a damn about what it costs in lives to defeat Taiwan.
China has 2.2 million active military personnel and 1.2 million in reserve. Taiwan has 165 thousand active personnel and 1.65 million in reserve. Without substancial support from the US (and Japan and Australia) China would overwhelm Taiwan through sheer numbers of personnel and materials.
Biden and the DOD have demonstrated weakness and it may be enough to convince China the USA is a paper tiger.
Taiwan has relied on the US for it’s defense just like Europe has.
Taiwan has nothing to stop the Chicoms from over running their country.
Taiwan, explain to me why we should be your mercenary force
So the takeover is inevitable. Might as well do it now, so that the U.S. will have no access to semiconductor chips.
Taiwan has relied on the US for it’s defense just like Europe has.
Taiwan has nothing to stop the Chicoms from over running their country.
Taiwan, explain to me why we should be your mercenary force
Reinstate Trump now!
Let’s just take care of our own Hemisphere. We got plenty of resources here, we don’t need the rest of the world. Keep a strong military to deter anyone from encroaching on our Hemisphere, and we all agree to leave the rest of the world alone.
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Strike when the iron is hot.
Resident Biden’s botch of the Afghanistan exit has emboldened terrorists and hostile countries across the world.
Good plan.
It’s pretty clear that China is trying to intimidate Taiwan into a peaceful surrender. Nothing would make them look better on the world stage. And nothing would make us look weaker.
After this fiasco in Afghanistan aren’t we required to come to Taiwan’s defense? Our credibility worldwide has been severely damaged by what is happening in Afghanistan, our allies are worried, enemies are emboldened etc.
China makes a move on Taiwan and we do nothing? It would be the end of American influence world wide. How would America recover from such a move?
The fear is, usually when a leader hears over and over that he’s weak, he tends to overcompensate and then goes too far.
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