Posted on 10/05/2021 5:46:03 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Edited on 10/05/2021 8:16:49 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has landed in Taiwan to give a speech and meet the country's president amid rising tensions with China.
Mr Abbott - who led Australia from 2013 to 2015 - will on Friday speak at the Yushan forum, a conference organised by the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation.
He will also have unofficial meetings with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu.
The visit comes after Taiwan reported 148 Chinese air force planes had flown over its air defence zone over a four day period beginning on Friday, the same day China marked a key patriotic holiday, National Day.
On Monday Mr Wu told the ABC program China Tonight that Taiwan is preparing for war.
'The defence of Taiwan is in our own hands, and we are absolutely committed to that,' he said.
'I'm sure that if China is going to launch an attack against Taiwan, I think they are going to suffer tremendously as well.'
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spoke at the Yushan forum last year but made his remarks virtually from Australia due to pandemic travel restrictions.
Mr Abbott was filmed landing at Taiwan's Taoyuan airport after flying from Singapore.
It’s all OK. Biden says so .
Ping.
“’The defence of Taiwan is in our own hands, and we are absolutely committed to that,’ he said.
‘I’m sure that if China is going to launch an attack against Taiwan, I think they are going to suffer tremendously as well.’”
I am not sure there is much anyone can do to stop China from blockading and ultimately taking over Taiwan. Biden would take it to the UN which would do nothing. Taiwan might try to defend itself but would not prevail against China.
https://armedforces.eu/compare/country_China_vs_Taiwan
Democrats always start wars. They use war to stay in power.
That site does not take into consideration Taiwan’s large scale defense missile programs as well as their missile defense capabilities.
No more semiconductors.
And put millions into their filthy pockets..
The clock has sped up.
ery interesting.
onder what’s next?
When China makes its move it will be like that spark that was lit in the powder keg in 1914.
Think of what no semiconductors will do the the world economy. It’ll be a million times worse than the COVID supply chain problems.
Why would China want to risk everything to invade Taiwan?
Because grandpa is sitting on the couch telling everyone that he’s still mad about Taiwan because they walked across his lawn?
We buy lots of product from china but we sell them about half of their food. We need to buy up all the soybeans from Brazil then we will own the market. Dump them in the ocean and starve out china.
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ho knows?
e just have to wait and see.
We dug this hole ourselves
That’s assuming Biden will object to a Chicom invasion.
As of 2021, only three firms are able to manufacture the most advanced semiconductors: TSMC of Taiwan, Samsung of South Korea, and Intel of the United States
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