Posted on 02/18/2021 11:32:03 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
In July of 2015, China’s state media aired footage of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducting a simulated special forces operation. Generally, for an authoritarian regime to display its military might is not out of the ordinary — it’s a means of deterring a state’s adversaries abroad and its own citizens from dissent.
However, this was no generic military footage. Those watching from Taiwan couldn’t help but notice a crucial detail: the building that the PLA is assaulting looks identical to the Presidential Office Building in Taipei.
Satellite imagery of the Zhurihe Training Base, situated deep within Inner Mongolia, later revealed that China had in fact built a mock section of downtown Taipei (oddly enough, there’s also a faux Eiffel Tower). Global Times — a megaphone for the Chinese Communist Party — has said that the Zhurihe Training Base is the “perfect place” for training exercises and realistic simulations.
Discussion then arose in the international security community over what these actions really meant. Using Ockham’s razor, some held that the meaning of China’s actions were clear: to prepare the PLA for an invasion of Taiwan. Others believed that China’s military simulations were a way of flaunting its new equipment. And others thought there was a more complex meaning, proposing that this particular simulation was a tactic used to dissuade Taiwanese voters from adopting a hardline against Beijing in their elections.
Years later, it’s clear that these military invasion simulations are not just signaling. They go beyond deterrence (if China is trying to deter anyone, it’s the U.S. from getting involved in the Taiwan Strait).
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Uh, Master Xi will tell Joe to stand down, get a pudding cup and go play Mario.
The simulations will stop soon since they have the man in the white house and another plant on the House Intel committee.
the practices to attack America with bioweapons AND DID,
and the First Pedophile TODAY gave them taxpayer money
to do it again, and again.
but 1/2 of America would put a toothbrush up their ass
if Fauxi, or the First Pedo, deemed it so.
Tell the Taiwanese to stop worrying; the building in the invasion simulation is really the One World Trade Center building in New York, the tallest building in the United States, and the Western Hemisphere, and the sixth-tallest in the world.
That should reassure Taiwan.
After all, it's just "cultural differences." Right, Joe?
If you pay attention, you know that China does not have adequate food stocks to mount a war
They moment China attacks anyone is the moment all food imports and almost all oil imports cease.
It’s just that easy to destroy China with no shots fired
China can do whatever it wants with their Manchurian candidate in office.
There’s no way China seriously thinks they are going to invade Taiwan in the conventional sense.
It would be a giant hamburger machine, and China is unlikely to prevail.
Are far more likely plan consists of a blockade and full enforced embargo of all goods coming and going.
Then await full capitulation. And an invitation to come aboard.
China controls Mongolia?
Did we create a monster?
China controls Mongolia?
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It officially part of China
That and a sizeable CCP 5th column on Taiwan
“Inner Mongolia” is part of China. Mongolia proper is a sovereign country, traditionally allied more with Russia than with China, but today capitalist and friendly to the US.
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