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After Russia Invades Ukraine, China Says U.S. Support for Taiwan 'Futile'
https://www.newsweek.com ^ | 3/1/2022 | By John Feng

Posted on 03/01/2022 2:57:21 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

merican support for Taiwan will be in vain, a Chinese government spokesperson has said, as a delegation of former U.S. officials landed in Taipei on Tuesday—a move seen as President Joe Biden's way of reassuring the island nation's public following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Taiwan has been awash with news about Vladimir Putin's bloody military operation against Kyiv for six consecutive days.

Observers the world over were quick to predict that China's President Xi Jinping would soon attempt the same against Taiwan, which Beijing has claimed for more than 70 years, and about which successive Chinese leaders have created mythologies not dissimilar to those believed in the Kremlin about Ukraine.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bideneffect; ccp; china; russia; soon; taiwan; ukraine; xiden
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1 posted on 03/01/2022 2:57:21 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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American support for Taiwan will be in vain, a Chinese government spokesperson has said

That's because of our support of the Chicom's military build up with the money they made from our free trade deals.

2 posted on 03/01/2022 3:02:21 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: RomanSoldier19

My money is on China invading the Russian Far East and sometime soon, too. This chatter about Taiwan is just meant to distract one person: Putin.


3 posted on 03/01/2022 3:02:48 PM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: RomanSoldier19
...which Beijing has claimed for more than 70 years

and which Communist China has never ruled not even for 1 day.

4 posted on 03/01/2022 3:03:59 PM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: MercyFlush
"My money is on China invading the Russian Far East and sometime soon, too. This chatter about Taiwan is just meant to distract one person: Putin."

That is when Japan will enter the war. Those nations hate each other.

5 posted on 03/01/2022 3:04:38 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Welcome to leftist Planet Lab Cage where are YOU are the rat)
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To: RomanSoldier19

If Biden loses both Ukraine *and* Taiwan, I could see a Reagan-style 49-state wipeout materializing


6 posted on 03/01/2022 3:05:27 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

7 posted on 03/01/2022 3:06:00 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Zhang Fei

Not with Orange Man Bad crazies and the MSM.

They do motor voter would be another big deal.


8 posted on 03/01/2022 3:08:34 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: RomanSoldier19

Why is this even a Story? Hunter has cashed the check, Pedo Joe got his 10%, Taiwan is All China’s


9 posted on 03/01/2022 3:09:31 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: MercyFlush

Putin would go nuclear over that.


10 posted on 03/01/2022 3:10:20 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Japan has a very capable navy, excuse me, maritime defense force. Odds are their technology is better even though their numbers are smaller.

They do need to get the Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin in service very soon.


11 posted on 03/01/2022 3:10:25 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: RomanSoldier19

Comrade Xi is taking a good look at what is happening to Russia and Putin. Suspect his enthusiasm to invade Taiwan has cooled.
1) Russia is having huge difficulties attacking across frozen fields and paved roads, taking significant casualties against a determined opponent. There is no guarantee that an attack across ninety miles of open ocean will be successful. His “only child army” has little combat experience. Nor have the locally made ships, weaponry, and jets been battle tested or proved themselves effective.

2) The people of Ukraine have given the people of Taiwan great inspiration to fight and resist.

3) Putin has lost the political support of the Russian people, the army and what passes for a political infrastructure in Russia. Russia is suffering. His days are numbered.

4) Comrade Xi knows that if an invasion fails there will be economic, political and social instability in China. If Xi is removed ,it wont be gently. His entire family and supporters will suffer the same fate.


12 posted on 03/01/2022 3:17:55 PM PST by allendale
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To: maro

“Putin would go nuclear over that.”

That’s a gamble China might be willing to take. Especially if Xi thinks Putin lacks the balls to do such a thing.


13 posted on 03/01/2022 3:18:16 PM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: RomanSoldier19

One clear lesson for Taiwan from the invasion of Ukraine is arm yourself to the teeth and be prepared to fight like hell because you’re probably going to get screwed over by the West.


14 posted on 03/01/2022 3:19:20 PM PST by Dundee (They gave up all their tomorrows for our today's.)
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Maybe 57, even???


15 posted on 03/01/2022 3:19:31 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: wildcard_redneck

China has already threatened to nuke Japan if they get involved.


16 posted on 03/01/2022 3:19:53 PM PST by erlayman
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To: allendale

That is quite a serious of statements/opinions.

They are all laughable imho.


17 posted on 03/01/2022 3:20:09 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Did Joey send Kamala to reassure them?


18 posted on 03/01/2022 3:22:41 PM PST by Skywise
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To: RomanSoldier19

China vs Taiwan will make Ukraine look like a family squabble.


19 posted on 03/01/2022 3:22:44 PM PST by McGruff (A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World Before the Truth Puts On its Shoes.)
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To: MercyFlush

You are so full of crap. You just make stuff up and blab it out.


20 posted on 03/01/2022 3:23:06 PM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world.)
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