[Yo-Yo]

Mainland China says Taiwan is still it possession. To prove it the mainland is prepared to blow it off the face of planet earth.

Sometimes you have to destroy the village to save it.

[elcid1970]

Reminds me of the Cold War, when nuclear annihilation always seemed imminent, somebody joked,

“Better move to Kansas because the Russians would never bomb the wheat!”

What’s the Chinese word for kabuki, because that’s all their saber-rattling is. They wouldn’t attack unless they felt certain of victory, and right now that’s a question of national will (ours vs theirs), not military technology.

This isn’t the desperately poor China of the Mao Tse-tung era anymore. They have something to lose if they go to war.

[Tainan]

Sometimes you have to destroy the village to save it.

Yeah...well...keep that zippo away from the hut roof and we'll be OK.

Funny fact. The only country that has a legal, court decisioned claim to "owning" Taiwan is....the U.S.A.

Trust me when I tell ya...you don't want this place. This ain't no tropical paradise.

[DoughtyOne]

;^)