Posted on 01/23/2023 9:33:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
He will watch and wait. As the USA continues to bleed itself dry his potential power will grow. I predict China will eventually take Taiwan without a war.
China has the ability to destroy Taiwan today.
But they do not have the ability to invade and occupy.
Yes, he’ll wait until he’s sure we have expended all of our weaponry and ammunition in Ukraine, drained our strategic oil reserve, and have a shortage of vital medical supplies, so we can’t assist Taiwan. It will be a short wait.
If China did invade Taiwan, do you think our news media would report it?
One thing you have to remember is that China couldn’t survive embargoes like Russia could. China Imports a lot of food and a lot of energy.
Why not invade now. JoHo already drained the petroleum reserve, demoralized our armed forces and weakened them with jabs and fired those that would not comply. They blew our wad propping up the worlds money laundromat for their own ill gotten gains and devalued the dollar so badly that if we are attacked, aint nobody is going to finance us, and after destroying the moronial and gen zzzzz generations, there is nobody who can ramp up a war machine or production. The time will never be better for china to do whatever it wants they know they will get nothing more than angry worded letters
They can win with an air tight blockade of Taiwan.
President Harris will rally the country with a series of stirring speeches. I’m sure she can build a global coalition. Or maybe not. China only has to wait for her to be President. Maybe a week or two from now.
And they usually get a lot of innocent people killed for no good reason. Enhancing the prestige of the scumbag who runs the country is not a good reason.
It is actually the CCP pushing for the war. But we have a huge international group of warships offshore. Giving them pause.
Xi vs. Taiwan and the Putin vs. Zelenskyy adversarial stances remind me of the New Age belief that our problems stem from our being egos walking around encased in skin.
Sometimes strutting.
Don’t see that in our DC.😇
I showed my students a CNN map of China the other day... it was all colored in red, including Taiwan, colored in red.
And one could say the same about the US re: China or Russia
You are correct. China can’t invade Taiwan without US & Japanese permission, or they will be ruined. The Japanese could blockade the Straits of Malacca without US assistance and cut off the 60+% of Chinese oil that comes from the Persian Gulf. Much as they dislike it, China will behave surprisingly well.
Unlike Ukraine-Russia, where US had installed Azov-ideologues into power, the push for NATO membership was steadily increasing, and a civil war was already raging in the Donbas.... Taiwan-China face none of those things.
- Taiwan-China trade continues
- a million Taiwanese or more continue to live in China
- Taiwan is a military midget and does nothing to raise its preparedness
- the more “pro-China” KMT in Taiwan just took power in most city/local governments
- China continues to raise the pressure in the Taiwan straights
So China can simply wait and keep doing what its doing.
“He will watch and wait. As the USA continues to bleed itself dry his potential power will grow. I predict China will eventually take Taiwan without a war.”
Not sure I agree with this. South Korea and Japan have really really started to arm and up their military game. Australia and New Zealand would quickly sucked in as well as the Philippines and Vietnam. Unless China could pull of a shock and awe campaign and take it before the other nations responded, it would be very very bloody and bad for business. China owning Biden may have neutralized the United States, but the rise of the Japanese and South Korean military puts it all back into play.
If anybody thinks that’ll happen, you better stock up with a ton of puts in the stock market. It’ll crash like it’s never done before.
The financial and economic repercussions of China invading Taiwan will make those of Russia’s adventure in Ukraine seem like child’s play.
Why doesn’t China just bribe all of Taiwan’s politicians ? It works here
None of our business. Let the Mandarins have Formosa.
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