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China removes phrase ‘peaceful reunification’ from Taiwan document
News.Com.au / News Pty Limited ^ | May 28 | Staff

Posted on 05/28/2020 12:55:02 PM PDT by PghBaldy

Beijing has removed references to “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan from its annual work report, signalling the country will take a stronger stance against the island territory.

The past six work reports since President Xi Jinping took power in 2013 have signalled that any attempt to reunify Taiwan and China would be “peaceful”.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Canada; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: australia; canada; china; hongkong; india; kag; maga; taiwan; trump; unitedkingdom; vietnam; waronterror; xi
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To: TBP
You can Wiki this:

The Taiwan Relations Act does not guarantee the USA will intervene militarily if the PRC attacks or invades Taiwan nor does it relinquish it, as its primary purpose is to ensure the US's Taiwan policy will not be changed unilaterally by the president and ensure any decision to defend Taiwan will be made with the consent of Congress. The act states that "the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capabilities". However, the decision about the nature and quantity of defense services that America will provide to Taiwan is to be determined by the President and Congress. America's policy has been called "strategic ambiguity" and it is designed to dissuade Taiwan from a unilateral declaration of independence, and to dissuade the PRC from unilaterally unifying Taiwan with the PRC.

The act further stipulates that the United States will "consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States".

This act also requires the United States to have a policy "to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character", and "to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan." Successive U.S. administrations have sold arms to Taiwan in compliance with the Taiwan Relations Act despite demands from the PRC that the U.S. follow the legally non-binding Three Joint Communiques and the U.S. government's proclaimed One-China policy (which differs from the PRC's interpretation of its one-China principle).

21 posted on 05/28/2020 1:15:32 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Glad2bnuts

“Why have we never sold nuclear weapons to Taiwan?”

Big money from cheap slave labor.

We have become so dependent that an immediate break from China may lead to full economic collapse here


22 posted on 05/28/2020 1:16:30 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: JoSixChip

I doubt it.


23 posted on 05/28/2020 1:18:03 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: PghBaldy

Good God I hope we never send American men and women to die for Taiwan.


24 posted on 05/28/2020 1:18:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: originalbuckeye

Good question. Our own government slept through the years from 1990 to about now.


25 posted on 05/28/2020 1:18:29 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized)
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To: PghBaldy

China is like a pet cat. Being nice is just an act to get food, if they were bigger, they’d eat you.


26 posted on 05/28/2020 1:21:03 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: hinckley buzzard

[CCP has become more bellicose since Xi arranged to get himself named president for life, further consolidating the identification of the Party and the government. It appears he has calculated that this is a time for decisive aggressive initiatives in several domains, following the Party’s holistic approach of a unified mission on all fronts, economic, military, diplomatic, and more.]


It’s not a Party thing. It’s a Xi thing. The Party will do whatever Xi commands. Think of Xi as a king and the Party as his courtiers. Xi wants to stamp his name in the history books. He wants to become one of the all-time greats. What rulers do to buy fame for posterity is acquire real estate. Xi is merely the latest in a long line of rulers who have done this, and he won’t be the last.


27 posted on 05/28/2020 1:21:59 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Williams

Partner, we need to make China pay for their Gestapo like take over of Hong Kong and we need to start talking to Taiwan and see if we can make them allied to the U.S.A.

Yes, the Chicoms will be PO'ed but so what.

28 posted on 05/28/2020 1:23:19 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Good question. Our own government slept through the years from 1990 to about now.

Partner, look at the presidents we have had since then.

In 1988 we elected George HW Bush and then in 1992 we elected the biggest liar in Chief ole Clintoon and his witch wife Hillary, In 2000 we elected W. and in 2008 we elected the America Hating and Nasty Piece of Work Obama and these 4 presidents have done all this damage to this great country of ours.

29 posted on 05/28/2020 1:28:00 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: PghBaldy

China is getting away with crushing HK, so Taiwan is next.


30 posted on 05/28/2020 1:42:02 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Sick and tired of the WuHu Flu Blues.)
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To: TheConservativeTejano

For 30 years, EVERYONE in America’s leadership, has been full-on sold out to China.

Everyone. Both parties.

Thirty years.


31 posted on 05/28/2020 1:45:19 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
CCP has become more bellicose since Xi arranged to get himself named president for life, further consolidating the identification of the Party and the government.

Oddly, I read somewhere that Xi had initially been a compromise candidate between different factions, and wasn't seen as a particularly strong executive. And, that that's one of the reasons he achieved the premier-ship.

Bad call, if that was true.

32 posted on 05/28/2020 1:45:46 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: PghBaldy
PghBaldy :" Beijing has removed references to “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan from its annual work report."

There is nothing peaceful about power, control, and manipulation; all of these concepts are part of the "Thirty year plan".
If you want to think "peaceful", China is the last thing that comes to mind !

33 posted on 05/28/2020 1:45:53 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: PghBaldy
As I pointed out in another thread, there is no way China can keep all of these balls in the air:

- Souring relationship with USA,
- Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan right there with us,
- Deteriorating situation on the border with a billion Indians,
- Rubbing Australia and Indonesia the wrong way,
- A Vietnam that would love to spar with them while ROC is distracted,
- Even the Euroweenies are not in the best of terms with them.

34 posted on 05/28/2020 1:49:02 PM PDT by Psalm 73
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To: Psalm 73
"ROC"

Correct that - should read: Red China

35 posted on 05/28/2020 1:50:16 PM PDT by Psalm 73
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To: PghBaldy

A close relative of mine lives in Taiwan. Has for decades.


36 posted on 05/28/2020 1:52:59 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: matthew fuller

Yep. Only President Trump being in the White House is saving them. It is all that is saving us too. Once the Communists, a/k/a,Democrats regain control its Katie Bar the Door and Heaven help the hindmost. For them and us.


37 posted on 05/28/2020 1:54:54 PM PDT by sport
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To: Pearls Before Swine

[Oddly, I read somewhere that Xi had initially been a compromise candidate between different factions, and wasn’t seen as a particularly strong executive. And, that that’s one of the reasons he achieved the premier-ship.

Bad call, if that was true. ]


He was viewed as unambitious. Then he took power and purged the factions who elevated him to his position. Xi Jinping’s forceful actions re purging his peers and rivals to an extent unprecedented since Mao suggests he’s not interested in being an economic administrator like his immediate predecessors. I fully expect him to move against some external target within his lifetime. His intent is to stamp his name in the history books. At 68, he’s no spring chicken, so he needs to get going.


38 posted on 05/28/2020 2:05:32 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I think he will go against Taiwan first and Manila almost simultaneously to ensure access to the entire Pacific - without the Philippines he is bottled up, and Duterte has fallen inline with Beijing as of late.


39 posted on 05/28/2020 2:10:53 PM PDT by datura
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To: hinckley buzzard

What if we restored the treaty?


40 posted on 05/28/2020 2:15:36 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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