This is interesting. Anyone here with internal knowledge?…
The Butchers of Beijing would be smart to try to absorb Taiwan rather than invade. They can absorb by planting sympathetic agents in as many places as possible...including national,regional and local legislatures.
Does the KMT do ballot harvesting?
When elections get lost in Taiwan, there’s hell Taipei.
Xi wants to be the Emperor Who Conquered Taiwan, but he’d rather not have to actually conquer it; as “the Turk” Sollozzo put it, he’s a businessman, and blood is a big expense.
Do they use Dominion voting machines?
As the older generation dies off more and more of the younger generation want nothing to do with the CCP. How this actually looks at the local level, I have no idea. But it’s hard to imagine Taiwanese citizens wanting to submit, and “submit” is the word, to having every aspect of their life dictated by absentee landlords who watch their every move on CCTV and send drones to yell at them to “move on.” However, she is right, nobody actually wants to be in the military. Probably, life has been so comfortable for so long that nobody wants to spend months or years crawling around in tunnels like the North Vietnamese did. My guess is that in six months the situation will have stabilized into more of nothing much. I’d love to know if there are Freepers with a more nuanced view of what the real situation is.
They will have help from within the United States.
The inspector general asked the Trump administration's Justice Department in December 2020 to consider a criminal investigation into Chao, but the DOJ refused.[66] Ethics experts said the appearances raised ethical concerns, as public officials are prohibited from using their office to profit others or themselves.[65] Federal disclosures cited by The New York Times revealed a gift to Chao and her husband Mitch McConnell from Chao's businessman father James, valued between $5 million and $25 million.[67] The company her father founded (and which her sister, Angela, currently runs), The Foremost Group, has extensive ties to the Chinese state and Chinese elites.[67] It obtained hundreds of millions of dollars worth of loans from a bank owned by the Chinese state, has substantial interests tied to a major shipyard funded by and long-term contracts with a steel producer owned by the Chinese state. In what The Times described as "a rarity for foreigners", Angela and James Chao have served on the boards of a Chinese state-owned shipbuilder, and Angela has been on the board of the Bank of China, as well as the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (which was created by the government of China).[67]
Chiang Kai-shek’s great-grandson won election for Taipei Mayor, for KMT Party. Youngest Taipei mayor ever - 36 years old