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China will race to expand 'empire' and attack Taiwan during window of opportunity, experts fear
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | November 18, 2020 02:57 PM | y Joel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter

Posted on 11/25/2020 12:42:00 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

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To: SaveFerris

“An army of 200 million marches to the Middle East just prior to Armageddon.

China is one of the few that could muster such.”

They’re gonna need to sell us a lot more cheap plastic crap to pay for it.


41 posted on 11/25/2020 1:34:49 PM PST by calenel (Tree of Liberty is thirsty.)
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To: brownsfan

That is why the Chicoms gave the Bidens all that money....They are betting on the come for Joe to be elected and can do whatever they please without retribution from the USA. They know Joe would sit our any confrontation with the USA, either from the military or economically.


42 posted on 11/25/2020 1:35:11 PM PST by chopperk (L)
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To: brownsfan

China, at present, cannot take and hold Taiwan by military means. They are using the perceived threat to do so to test force readiness, the reactions of adversaries, and to draw attention from other issues. This tense borders strategy is common in China’s history.


43 posted on 11/25/2020 1:37:17 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Tallguy

The Chinese would go into Taipei with airborne and sea borne troops. Right up the street to the Capital building.

This would be over in an afternoon.

We would barely know it’s happening ( meaning you or I) before it was over.

And we, the US, will write a strongly worded letter.

The terrain there isn’t an issue for China. They have to move men and machinery by air over 100 miles. It IS an issue for us...moving materials from Japan.

Wars are won with logistics. If our troops are not already on the island, there is no way to get them there in time to stop it.

This doesn’t even touch on what would happen in Korea while we are looking at Taiwan.


44 posted on 11/25/2020 1:40:21 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: Mariner
Even the US Navy and Air Force alone could prevent that power projection effort.

Will Plugs order the US Military to wage war against the PRC to protect Taiwan?

And even if he does, will he fight to win, or just enough to "send a message"?

And if, God forbid, they get in a good lick, will he rally the country, and stay the course, or back down, and sign a deal that makes the Paris Peace Accords, where North Vietnam agreed to wait a "decent interval" after the US's departure, before invading South Vietnam, look like an American victory?

45 posted on 11/25/2020 1:43:17 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: dynachrome

Russia doesn’t have the economy to engage in a war on that scale. One good economic sneeze and Russia is down for the count.


46 posted on 11/25/2020 1:46:21 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: Vermont Lt
The Chicomms will get Taiwan back in time. FIrst though they will send a letter to Biden with their list of demands which will include trashing the trade deal with Taiwan, ending tariffs on China, and ending all the commitments to arms (Harpoon, etc) for Taiwan

The Chinese are very patient and will keep undermining America's strength before taking whatever they want.

47 posted on 11/25/2020 1:49:44 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: dfwgator

Lol. I still have the old National Lampoon album.


48 posted on 11/25/2020 1:49:46 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: grey_whiskers

I don’t know what I did to deserve that, but thank you!


49 posted on 11/25/2020 1:53:38 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pilsner

Those are the relevant questions.

Before anything even comes close to starting he’s likely to sign a mutual non-aggression pact with China, inclusive of a complete break in all ties with Taiwan. And a USN abandonment of the Pacific west of Guam and south of Japan.

Sending the entire Indo-Pacific into bloody war.


50 posted on 11/25/2020 2:07:04 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: RomanSoldier19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Taiwanese_automakers

Taiwan can make small, cheap cars. So how quickly could they produce thousands or tens of thousands of cheap buzz bomb type weapons?

Beer can body, off the shelf engine, gas tank, mechanical fly by wire, a cheap plug in computer brain that works until fried then mechanical “player piano” guidance to target. When the brain is plugged into the body it has target info that is then written on the pp guidance.

And the best part is a thousand pound bomb as cargo.

Sure, *some* of them can be shot down, but those that aren’t can create utter havoc among an invasion force.


51 posted on 11/25/2020 2:16:45 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing." -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
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To: SaveFerris

Let’s face it - the ancient Sino people are brute beasts with an unbridled lust for war and death. They’ve proven that over & over again throughout time.

They’re addiction to power and mayhem is enough to convince me they’ll go nuclear on somebody soon enough.


52 posted on 11/25/2020 2:27:31 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: fhayek

Led by bought and paid for traitorous scam-bags its all becoming more clear why ChineUH got all cozy with the ByeDumb CrimeFamily


53 posted on 11/25/2020 2:53:49 PM PST by Gasshog
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To: RomanSoldier19

Partner, the Chicoms took Hong Kong free of charge.

The Chicoms did not pay one cent for getting Hong Kong free of any cost to the Chicoms.

If the Chicoms take over Taiwan it will also be free of charge to the Chicoms.

The Chicoms do not care how Taiwanese folks will feel if they are taken over by the Chicoms.

54 posted on 11/25/2020 3:12:58 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Let’s face it - the ancient Sino people are brute beasts with an unbridled lust for war and death. They’ve proven that over & over again throughout time. They’re addiction to power and mayhem is enough to convince me they’ll go nuclear on somebody soon enough.

Partner, then the U.S.A. will not let the Chicoms take over Taiwan, period and end of story.

The Chicoms just took over "Hong Kong" free of charge.

The Chicoms had taken over free of charge "Tibet"
and the Chicoms once again proved that they wanted "Tibet" free of charge.

55 posted on 11/25/2020 3:19:47 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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To: Vermont Lt

I meant CCP for China. My finger stuttered. haha.


56 posted on 11/25/2020 3:24:59 PM PST by dynachrome (People who get what they want are often surprised when they also get what they deserve. ~ james wood)
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To: BenLurkin
Creepy Joe says of the ChiComs: "They're not bad folks"

Killed 40 million people from Mao's rise onward. Has current concentration camps with forced labor for political opponents and Muslims. Makes religious and rival leaders "disappear." Hate to see somebody who WAS bad.

57 posted on 11/25/2020 3:32:13 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I always thought you needed numerous landing craft to pull off an invasion by sea. China ain’t got any. Maybe the ChiComms will pay UPS to deliver 500,000 packages, each containing one ChiComm draftee who doesn’t want to invade anything and a rice cooker that doesn’t work.


58 posted on 11/25/2020 3:49:55 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Seruzawa

“China has every intention of dominating the Earth.”

This speech lays out that very intention. Pay attention to the last part on how they intended to do it.

Everybody should send Fauci a special thank you for the role he has played.

https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/#:~:text=The%20Secret%20Speech%20of%20


59 posted on 11/25/2020 3:59:20 PM PST by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Chinese went on their South Seas island-building spree in 2009 and 2010, when they knew Obama would do nothing. By 2015 it was a fait accompli

Taiwan will not undergo a direct invasion, but rather a series of political steps which will ratchet up pressure on them, including things like blockade.


60 posted on 11/25/2020 4:02:58 PM PST by PGR88
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