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Dangerous territory: Is Taiwan next on China’s list?
DW News ^ | 10-15-2021

Posted on 10/15/2021 8:34:11 AM PDT by jarheadtom

Watch waves of Chinese war planes fly over Taiwan territory. Chinese war drums?

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnews.whatfinger.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; taiwan
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1 posted on 10/15/2021 8:34:11 AM PDT by jarheadtom
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To: jarheadtom

How many dams can China afford to lose?


2 posted on 10/15/2021 8:37:40 AM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: jarheadtom

Of course not. What a silly question. They are merely “testing” all of those military planes. Nothing to worry about.


3 posted on 10/15/2021 8:39:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: jarheadtom

They may as well skip Taiwan and come directly here.

They can come in-force through the southern border and be flown or bused to all the states for free and under the Biden Administration they’d be paid to do it and get free healthcare.


4 posted on 10/15/2021 8:40:14 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

Of course Tiawan is .....sheesh China has always viewed Taiwan as simply unfinished business. Like Hong cong....

Over 90% of China’s population lives on their Eastern Coast. Tiawan is a huge rock getting in their way of controlling the Sea lanes.


5 posted on 10/15/2021 8:45:32 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: jarheadtom

No. China has no social safety nets of any kind, and mass casualties would leave a swath of their population to starve without their one-child policy male bread-winner, and would threaten the existence/legitimacy of the CCP itself.


6 posted on 10/15/2021 8:47:52 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: jarheadtom

China is desperate to distract their population from the perils of a declining economy. Telling people to prepare for war and to ‘give up comforts’ is a typically Chinese Communist way to excuse the failures of the planned economy to deliver such ‘comforts’ like food, energy, jobs, and hope.

China is in decline and the feckless and unprincipled bandits who run the country know that their day is coming. Just as we saw with the Soviet Union so too will China rapidly and suddenly collapse from the rot within their corrupt government and a culture that has been robbed of what it means to be Chinese.

Taiwan is a distraction and the CCP hopes that Taiwan will surrender and give them an esay victory. Because the truth is that they have neither the ability nor the resources to invade Taiwan. The best the CCP can do is wreck Taiwan and in doing so China will become a pariah state.

With foreign trade halted and embargoes laid down against them the Chinese people will be unemployed in the hundreds of millions. The energy they depend upon to feed themselves and warm themselves will be cut off.

And then the Chinese people who have been trained for generations not to care for each other will not hesitate to murder their neighbors for precious crumbs of food or for wooden furniture to burn.

In all seriousness, China is a house of cards that is about to fall and the foul wind that issues from the CCP and that Xi Zhang retard of a President they have will surely knock it down.

Let China attack Taiwan. The sooner they do then the sooner the CCP will find themselves slaughtered at the hands of a vengeful, selfish, people.


7 posted on 10/15/2021 8:50:08 AM PDT by MercyFlush (IT’S NOT A VACCINE. Once you accept this then everything else starts to make sense.)
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To: jarheadtom
Taiwan is now a go!


8 posted on 10/15/2021 8:50:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Lockdowns will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in modern history! Cui bono?)
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To: jarheadtom

Yes, China really wants to risk everything onTaiwan…..for…..their huge plains filled with wheat.

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Yeah!

That’s it!


9 posted on 10/15/2021 9:02:38 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: jarheadtom

If the US goes into recession and huge shortages this winter China might go ahead and attack while our people are bogged down with just trying to survive and no longer concerned about Taiwan.


10 posted on 10/15/2021 9:16:21 AM PDT by setter
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To: MercyFlush

A few years ago a dorky young guy I knew visited the glorious vacation spot China.

Although a leftist and enamored of Marxist ideas he told me “One thing there is they have lots and lots of people who see things rock videos or movies and they want them but can’t have them. They get impatient being on the low end of the world’s wealth. Someday something is going to happen over there started by all those people who want things.”


11 posted on 10/15/2021 9:17:47 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: jarheadtom

From my home page:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4002096/posts?page=58#58

The chinese will send a sampan navy with 10million “internal migration” civilians armed with CNN uplinks, cameras, and bullhorns. When they get mowed down by our side, the resulting negative PR will be amplified by the chinese knocking out 2 of our aircraft carriers in the blockade with their hypersonic ICBM thermally guided antiship missiles.
America will luze stomach for the fight over what it already calls an internal province of China. Taiwan has never declared independence.
About a third of civilians in Taiwan are ethnic Chinese and maybe only half of them have loyalties and fifth column tendencies towards communist China. They have hundreds of thousands of cargo ships they can fill with civilians armed with cameras, CNN uplinks, and bullhorns.
The resultant slaughter will be live on CNN and the PR backlash will be enough to let China walk right back into their own internal (never did declare independence) province. If we blockade them, they’ll lob thermal-capable antiship ICBM missiles at our aircraft carriers and CNN will record them sinking to the bottom of the sea with the resultant nuclear plume.
America will luze stomach for the fight after luzing a couple $Trillion in carriers and tens of thousands of men in one afternoon, all seen on CNN, with our recourse being... to slaughter civilians. China has all the cards, they just have to lay them down on the table at this point.
And when it’s all over but the shouting, the RINOs and GOPes and democraps will be handwringing, hoping for a quick way to order chinese chips & electronics from Amazon. The chinese want the continued business of globalists so it’ll all be “can’t we just get along” and “water under the bridge” as soon as China is in charge and chips are shipping.


12 posted on 10/15/2021 9:22:27 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: maddog55

They can come in-force through the southern border and be flown or bused to all the states for free and under the Biden Administration they’d be paid to do it and get free healthcare.
***A far better sci-fi scenario than Red Dawn 2 with the Norks as the aggressors. Red Dawn 1 was extremely timely.


13 posted on 10/15/2021 9:24:16 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: MercyFlush; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; Liz
  House of Cards?  Unannounced disaster?  How would you like to be strolling this street in China and suddenly find a building being blown up behind you?!

I agree with your analysis.

Destroying the independence of Hong Kong was the worst financial decision the CCP ever made.  Their economy IS a stack of cards.  And they've disenfranchised the enterpreneurs like Joe Ma who have given them whatever prosperity they achieved.

But there's another instability factor in the mix.  The resolve of the United States to respond to a Taiwan attack is now questionable.  I hear Xi Jingping the Covid King is whispering, "Let's Go Comrade Biden!"


14 posted on 10/15/2021 9:29:19 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: Kevmo

How are you today?

Did you have a good nights rest?

I hope so.

Did you have some General Tso’s Chicken for dinner?


15 posted on 10/15/2021 9:30:38 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: jarheadtom
China's is probably eyeing the manufacturing technology that has allowed Taiwan to succeed. It is a major asset to the world to Taiwan and the world.

If this technology is somehow destroyed during the invasion, then it would be less beneficial to China. A poison pill. Of course, supply chain chip shortages would become even worse and all things technology in the world would be severely hindered. Maybe that is Taiwan's bargaining chip.

16 posted on 10/15/2021 9:30:50 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: blueunicorn6

If you’re here to defend your positions, go for it. No need for small talk.


17 posted on 10/15/2021 9:53:49 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: jarheadtom; MercyFlush

I worked and lived in China 9 months out of the year beginning late 2010 for almost 3 years.

One Chinese colleague became a good friend. Their parents had survived the The Great Famine under Mao from 1959 to 1962.

Publicly speaking about the famine is banned in China. Peasants couldn’t feed themselves or their children, and babies / young children were most often tose who died.

They would NOT eat their own dead (usually). But they would trade their dead to another family. And people would also dis-enter the recently buried, likewise to eat from their bodies.

This is a horrible and ugly truth.

Of course, it doesn’t look like Mao missed many meals - or Xi for that matter.

FYI and one reference:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-famine-book-tombstone


18 posted on 10/15/2021 9:54:24 AM PDT by muffaletaman (IMNSHO - I MIGHT be wrong, but I doubt it.)
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To: caww

China will wait until we are distracted—Then attack in a bold sneak attack that will fell (they hope) Taiwan in 48 hours. But not until USA is out of the picture and Biden (their puppet) is still in power. They will have full control in two weeks (they hope). We will not wake up until we hear about the Victory Party and fireworks. When?
1) A really big terrorist attack in a major city (GOP City) One that will kill thousands in some way—A Nuke? Poison Gas?
2) A really Big Natural Disaster like a major fire, volcano explosion (Yellowstone) Storm and Blackout. Earthquake?
3) Civil War between the states pulls our navy home.
4) Insurrection and civil unrest—crisis that will paralyze the nation. 5) a Coup of Generals take over and depose the President or Arrest Trump and Family for Treason against the state. 6) Power grab—election 2022 cancelled and Nancy Pelosi takes power as President “Until Free Elections can be held” (Never). Any of the above or two of the above.


19 posted on 10/15/2021 10:02:43 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: caww

China will wait until we are distracted—Then attack in a bold sneak attack that will fell (they hope) Taiwan in 48 hours. But not until USA is out of the picture and Biden (their puppet) is still in power. They will have full control in two weeks (they hope). We will not wake up until we hear about the Victory Party and fireworks. When?
1) A really big terrorist attack in a major city (GOP City) One that will kill thousands in some way—A Nuke? Poison Gas?
2) A really Big Natural Disaster like a major fire, volcano explosion (Yellowstone) Storm and Blackout. Earthquake?
3) Civil War between the states pulls our navy home.
4) Insurrection and civil unrest—crisis that will paralyze the nation. 5) a Coup of Generals take over and depose the President or Arrest Trump and Family for Treason against the state. 6) Power grab—election 2022 cancelled and Nancy Pelosi takes power as President “Until Free Elections can be held” (Never). Any of the above or two of the above.


20 posted on 10/15/2021 10:02:43 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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