Posted on 04/15/2022 5:02:30 AM PDT by hardspunned
BEIJING, April 15. /TASS/. Chinese authorities intend to ensure the unity of mainland China and Taiwan at all costs, regardless of US statements, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday.
"The Taiwan problem is the number one issue of our country's domestic policy. China should and definitely will be unified, we are ready to take the utmost measures for a peaceful unification with Taiwan," he said at a briefing replying to a question by TASS as to how Beijing assesses Washington's recent statement on the unacceptability of the reunification of Taiwan and mainland China by force.
The spokesman also reiterated that earlier, China's People's Liberation Army expressed its firm stance on the inadmissibility of Washington's interference in China's domestic affairs. He stressed that the Chinese authorities intend to severely intercept attempts by Taiwanese separatists to disassociate from mainland China.
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China to conduct exercise near Taiwan due to "wrong signals" from US — Defense Ministry
On Thursday, a US delegation under Republican Senator Lindsey Graham had arrived at the island on a brief, undeclared visit BEIJING, April 15. /TASS/. China's air and naval forces will conduct an exercise in the East China Sea and around Taiwan due to the United States' "wrong signals" regarding the island's status, the Chinese army's Eastern Battle Zone Command said on Friday.
"On April 15, the Eastern Battle Zone Command will conduct a joint exercise to check the combat readiness of several arms and services in the East China Sea and around Taiwan. Destroyers, frigates, bombers, fighters and other forces will take part," the news release says.
"These actions are aimed against repeated wrong signals from the United States regarding Taiwan," the news release reads. "This ill-considered behavior and machinations by the United States are utterly futile. At the same time, they are very dangerous. It is play with fire."
Taiwan's central news agency has said that a US delegation under Republican Senator Lindsey Graham had arrived at the island on a brief, undeclared visit on Thursday evening. This group of politicians, among them several prominent senators, made a stopover in Taipei on the way home from Australia on a military plane. According to the news agency, the US officials were scheduled to meet with the chief of Taiwan's administration Tsai Ing-wen and heads of a number of agencies on Friday.
The United States severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979 to have established diplomatic relations with China. While recognizing the "one China" policy, Washington maintains contacts with the self-ruled island and supplies it with military hardware. This has repeatedly drawn strong protests from Beijing, which regards Taiwan as an integral part of Chinese territory and resolutely opposes any separatist designs.
They should hurry up, because 2024 is coming. If Trump gets elected, they won’t be uniting until 2028 at the earliest.
Then do it. See what happens. Maybe your country will win a war for once tough guy. 0/1000 in their entire 5,000 year history.
They have the largest target in history that will end them as a country if they decide to attack.
I have no idea what the maniacs in the White House, coordinating with their neoconista fellow travelers, are capable of here. Taiwan is a dead man walking.
I don’t think the CCP will attempt an outright “D-Day” style invasion of Taiwan.
I think they will gradually ratchet up an air and sea blockade, and essentially dare the U.S. Navy to try to break it.
This works to their strength, because our ships, including our CVNs, will be in range of their land-based missiles long before they can approach Taiwan.
The fate of the Moskva is on everybody’s mind at the Pentagon.
Scaled up, China’s anti-ship missiles are are just as dangerous to our Pacific fleet.
In the end, I think Taiwan’s billionaire ruling class will cut a deal with Xi.
The reason the Chinese statements sound delusional is because they are notorious liars and they are dictatorial lunatics.
“You sent some ‘wrong signals’ so we’re going to bomb and invade, and if need be a nuclear world war and lose our navy, all to take an island we haven’t had for 70 years”.
Countries like Russia and China can’t exist at peace because the greatest threat they face is freedom.
“...Then do it. See what happens...”
Ha! In the words of St. Kyle of Kenosha:
“F*&k around and find out.”
I wonder who said that..
I doubt it. They see Xi for the bumbling madman he is. They see what is going on in Shanghai. That has nothing to do with Covid. It’s about smacking down the Shanghai faction.
Japan knows this and so does Vietnam and the Phils and the rest of Asia.
At this point they know the US is not reliable. They willbtake matters into their own hands.
Bingo!
>>I don’t think the CCP will attempt an outright “D-Day” style invasion of Taiwan.<<
The commies have and will further infiltrate Taiwan. When the switch is flipped, the Chinese will attempt to cripple Taiwan’s infrastructure. They will permeate the political structure...you name it.
The manufacturing base in Taiwan is the crown Jewel for the commies, particularly TSM. Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing co.. They do not want to destroy this infrastructure that will help catapult the communist to world’s premiere superpower.
It’s called Salami Tactics. Taking it slice by slice without the taking of any single slice triggering a military response. Slices in China’s case referring to a blockade here and a blockade there..
You’re seeing part of the strategy being played out in Eastern Europe. NATO, heavily subsidized by you and me, has committed to a brand new, 1200 mile long, hostile frontier with a nuclear/economic super power. We appear to be totally mobilized with a Ukraine build up. Do you expect this DC Junta to be able to manage a two front world wide Cold War with the other two superpowers of the world? Look at the billion dollars a week, tiny down payment, we’re pi$$ing away in Ukraine now. Look at the self inflicted grievous wounds the US and EU is suffering from Russian sanctions. What could the CCP do by stopping all pharmaceutical exports? The Russians will play as Xi directs and this, for China, is a one and only, lifetime chance. I think the CCP cashes it’s Biden markers and walks in.
——economic super power.——
Au contraire mi amigo (Frog mex lingo)
Russia has a population less than the island of Java. In GDP it ranks less than Canada and just barely above Australia.
Australia with population only about 15% of Russia almost equals the Russian GDP. The Russians just don’t have what it takes. Super applied to Russia is a joke
Oh yeah, obviously you don’t drive. This summer when your food starts drying up, you can swear off eating too. I couldn’t care a fig about their population. I do know I am personally paying out the back side because of the world wide dependence of Russian natural resources. Check what happens to the EU economy when Russian natural gas is halted. What am I going to believe, your meaningless figures or my lying wallet?
Have the ChiComs made ‘em an offer that they can’t refuse?
You are assuming (possibly in error) that this administration would even respond to an attack.
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