Posted on 01/28/2022 12:45:26 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China and the United States could end up in a military conflict if the United States encourages Taiwan's independence, Beijing's ambassador to Washington said in a U.S. radio interview broadcast on Friday.
China considers the neighboring, democratically ruled island of Taiwan its "sacred" territory and has never renounced the use of force to ensure eventual unification.
"Let me emphasize this. The Taiwan issue is the biggest tinder-box between China and the United States," Qin Gang told National Public Radio.
"If the Taiwanese authorities, emboldened by the United States, keep going down the road for independence, it most likely (will) involve China and the United States, the two big countries, in a military conflict," he said.
Asked to comment, the U.S. Defense Department said the United States remained committed to its "one China" policy and its commitments under the U.S. Taiwan Relations Act.
Under the long-standing policy, Washington officially recognizes Beijing rather than Taipei, while the act requires the United States to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself.
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Good!
I translate it as a Chinese invasion of our ally will mean war.
We should have spent that $2 trillion on our navy and air force.
“I translate it as a Chinese invasion of our ally will mean war.”
Taiwan might be our ally but Japan, S. Korea, Philippines etc does not seem to care if China takes over Taiwan..why should we?
Move chip production back to the US and stop these darn foreign entanglements that cost us nothing but blood and treasure and nearly all turn into disasters for us.
The US should extended an invitation to Taiwan to petition for statehood and joining the United States.
Taiwan is very well armed. There is no guarantee that an invasion across 90 miles of open ocean will be successful. In the final analysis, the major question is: Will the people of Taiwan be willing to fight, sacrifice and even die to preserve their freedom and way of life? Chiang Kai-chek and the people who once supported him both in Taiwan and the United States are long dead.
They will give in like Hong Kong
Well they don’t seem to care because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I believe Japan recently declared that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would be an existential threat to Japan.
Australia also is concerned and preparing.
Philippines military is concerned but their current predident worships communist China and the Philippine military is meaningless.
And how long would that take to do?
“Taiwan might be our ally but Japan, S. Korea, Philippines etc does not seem to care if China takes over Taiwan..why should we?”
That is utterly and completely untrue.
Japan and the US conducted joint exercises on China’s doorstep as a warning against invading Taiwan.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/asia/china-taiwan-warplane-incursion-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
The small-dicked Chinese Communists whined about the exercises which refutes your notion that Japan doesn’t care. If Japan didn’t care then China wouldn’t whine like little girls.
“They will give in like Hong Kong”
Hong Kong didn’t give in. Hong Kong was handed over to the scumbag bandits in Beijing by the British who lacked the balls to let Hong Kong determine their own fate.
The Brits also lacked the means.
The Brits merely needed to call an election and let the people of Hong Kong make a choice.
The people of HK could have chosen status quo, independence, etc and who, how, where and had the will to enforce that choice?
“The people of HK could have chosen status quo, independence, etc and who, how, where and had the will to enforce that choice?”
We’ll never know since the British handed these people over into communist slavery.
“And how long would that take to do?”
Intel is building the largest chip plant in the world in Columbus Ohio and said they will be making chips in 2005.
Similar chip plants are being built right now in Texas and 2-3 other places in the US by other companies.
It’s already in process. The world’s largest chip fabricator, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that it plans to spend over $30 Billion on creating a manufacturing campus on 1700 acres of land it owns just north of Phoenix, AZ. They’re now in the process of building their first plant there.
...said they will be making chips in 2005....
Uh, dude. It’s 2022.
That’s good news (I think).
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