Posted on 07/23/2020 11:33:15 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
China is stepping up military preparedness to overtake Taiwan, the island’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Wednesday, following a recent spike of Chinese drills near the island which Beijing considers its own.
Taiwan has complained that China has stepped up threatening military activities near Taiwan in recent months. Beijing has not renounced the use of force to bring the democratic island under its control.
“Looking on the long-term trend, China appears to be gradually stepping up its military preparedness, especially in air or on the waters near Taiwan,” Wu told reporters.
“What China is doing now is continuing to ramp up preparedness to solve the Taiwan issue,” he said.
“The threat is on the rise.”
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China , Run By Idiots
Idiots with a huge military threat.
Taiwan”s should make clear any attack on island by C0mmunist China would be a attack by their air force on three gorges dam. That would keep the Commies busy for the next 50 years.
What would happen if the Three Gorges Dam failed?
Asking for a friend.
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“What would happen if the Three Gorges Dam failed?”
It can’t fail, because it was built under the direction of the Party, and the Party is never wrong and never fails!
This cold war with China will not remain cold for long. Too much naval traffic in the South China Sea. God Bless the US Navy.
The Party cannot fail but it can get wet and dissolve.
I agree.
The cliche, common man, threat picture is outdated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_of_China
China is industrialized, has high tech (not a stone age threat as in the past), but still has numbers and a willingness to take huge losses whereas we tend to tuck in our tail real quick when casualties mount and bad images come home (Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq).
Sadly, we largely created this threat with manufacturing moving there many years ago, technology transfers, educating their folks here, turning a blind eye for many years regards their theft of intellectual property, taking western management practices there... It’s not a good idea to make deals with the devil, you tend to lose in the long run, and that will some day be true for Saudi Arabia also, but we never learn. Greeeeed-
I just hope my son doesn’t end up dead some day, so that we can have a cheap McDonalds toy today. What folks don’t realize, is that MOST civilian type manufacturing or tech is the same stuff that is used for making war machines. The same company that makes the cheap McDonalds plastic toys can make stocks for assault rifles. Many of these missiles use off the shelf processors (If I remember right, AMRAAM used 80486 processors when it came out)... Take a look where near all your electronics are made today, even if it’s a US brand name, in many cases even in our DoD!
Excellent!!
It is not only the 3G Dam that poses a threat, but there are many more dams in China that could fail. A hydraulic study can then predict the extent of the disaster that breakage could cause. The US and Taiwan are fully aware of each dam’s coordinates.
Meanwhile crops are being destroyed in China as we post
Drought in the north and massive floods elsewhere are destroying crops in the field. There are several video reports of the grain, corn, stock piles damaged by the wet and subsequent mold and rot. I saw video of hogs swimming in the flood of their pens. The hogs and hog infrastructure were destroyed.
China is going to be faced with massive food deficits.
Hi.
“China is going to be faced with massive food deficits.”
Which will increase the price of food.
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Hi.
Thanks for the link.
Looks like, if the rain continues unabated, no missles will be needed.
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You are correct however the markets and the precious metals are signaling inflation around the world. Prices are going to rise as a result of the massive government spending here and elsewhere.
As a hedge against the food price rises, purchasing the stock of Archer, Daniels, Midland or Bungee Ltd might be a recourse.
[Taiwan”s should make clear any attack on island by C0mmunist China would be a attack by their air force on three gorges dam. That would keep the Commies busy for the next 50 years.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
Bottom line is that in the worst case, and the dam is completely destroyed, such that every drop of water behind it flushes to the surrounding area, it would inundate, to a depth of ~12 ft (~4m), 39.3/(.004)= 9825 sq km. That’s a 55 km (~34 mile) radius from the dam. Not exactly the kind of flood that got Noah’s home brew yacht project going. No fun for the people within that radius who have to seek shelter either on the roof of single story homes or above the second story of one of the many high rises that China has taken to building, but not exactly the tsunami that took out Japan’s nuclear power plant.
What Taiwan needs to do is ramp up its wimpy defense budget, instead of relying mostly on Uncle Sam to do the heavy lifting. It’s pretty incredible that Israel, which is surrounded by weak opponents on every side, and has 1/3 the population of Taiwan’s 24m people, also has a bigger defense budget ($20b) than Taiwan ($13b), which sits right next to the Chinese leviathan.
Taiwan doesn’t stand a chance.
[What would happen if the Three Gorges Dam failed?
Asking for a friend.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
Capacity of dam = 39.3 cu km
Height of flood water = 4 m
Circular area covered by 4 m of flood water
= 39.3 cu km / (4 m * 1 km / 1000 m)
= 39.3 cu km / 0.004 km
= 9825 sq km.
Radius of area covered by 4 m (~12 ft) of flood water
= square root (9825 sq km / (pi = 3.14) )
= square root (3128 sq km)
= 56 km
~ 34 miles
Damn.
No pun intended.
An accurate word would be catastrophic. Of Biblical proportions.
I pray it doesn’t happen.
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