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Anybody notice what's going on in Taiwan?
americanthinker ^

Posted on 04/11/2023 5:19:35 PM PDT by chief lee runamok

Call it the under-reported story of the year.

But if you're in Taiwan, you'd be mighty nervous, given that the Chinese navy is surrounding your entire island -- just as a military exercise, of course.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: asia; china; navy; taiwan
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They focused on dominating the air and sea in the western Pacific by simulating
a carrier-based strike from the far side of the island.."

It would be a real shame if their carrier ran into a mk50.

Mark 50 torpedo - Wikipedia

1 posted on 04/11/2023 5:19:35 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: chief lee runamok

I keep wondering: What if the war has already started, but no one has noticed?


2 posted on 04/11/2023 5:22:59 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: chief lee runamok

just coincidentally happens

https://www.firstpost.com/world/us-philippines-hold-massive-military-exercise-in-south-china-sea-12440952.html


3 posted on 04/11/2023 5:23:49 PM PDT by stylin19a ("Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl")
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To: chief lee runamok

Chicoms don’t want to commit suicide but they want to put up their fur so others give them what they want.

It’s not like Taiwan won’t nuke Shanghai.


4 posted on 04/11/2023 5:28:49 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

“What if the war has already started, but no one has noticed?”

As the article points out, the news is being contained. If the government thought we were on the verge of war, and the government was competent, this would be on the news every night. But we have a governmental leader who makes ice-cream jokes at funerals and stumbles going up stairs when every camera in whatever country is on him. (I think I’ll order some iodine pills.)


5 posted on 04/11/2023 5:32:57 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: chief lee runamok

I find what is happening Fassxinating.

unfortunately not unexpected


6 posted on 04/11/2023 5:34:00 PM PDT by algore
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To: chief lee runamok

A straits of T. battel would be over economically in about 40 minutes.

USN/British attack submarines would use the expensive ammo on the high tech flagships and escape at depth and at 35kts flank faster than the surface screeners can turn. The under reporting of how good the free islands surface to surface missles are picking out chinese combatants is under reported. China is just giving away electronic warfare infomation every time they go to sea in force. With the top 5% of the chines’ navy taken out the rest runs for the protection of home port as the T air force runs a 36 hour war on every boat in the strait while the chinese air force is gamed around with flights of US Navy recon drones and EF-18s. The battlefield information system of the good guys in that part of the world is epic good.

Lots of poor hardware has gone against the USN over the past 50 years, beyond ROI mistakes, Floating Mines, or Watch Mistakes, name a significant hit?


7 posted on 04/11/2023 5:34:28 PM PDT by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: ifinnegan

2 million soldiers think otherwise.


8 posted on 04/11/2023 5:35:43 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: stylin19a

Apparently our exercises were planned long before the chinese decided to hold theirs.

I dunno. I cant believe what comes out of either socialist regime.


9 posted on 04/11/2023 5:36:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: chief lee runamok

A MK 50 is NOT going to sink a carrier.


10 posted on 04/11/2023 5:37:17 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: chief lee runamok

The Chinese were emboldened by the Biden Administration”s failure to react quickly and defensively when those wobbly Spy Balloons drifted over our country. Some were shot down but only after they had absorbed and transmitted data about our military bases.


11 posted on 04/11/2023 5:38:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Secret Agent Man

Just a hunch, but I believe China will go for it in a little less than 2 years.


12 posted on 04/11/2023 5:42:48 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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A MK 50 is NOT going to sink a carrier.

Certainly not a robust US carrier.

13 posted on 04/11/2023 5:46:17 PM PDT by null and void (I'm ready to come back to Russia but I don’t want to live in a country that starts wars ~ Diuzharden)
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To: chief lee runamok

Taiwan has always kind of existed on the edge.


14 posted on 04/11/2023 5:48:32 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Gen.Blather

It seems like it’s only a matter of time. I wonder what the trigger will be…
Maybe there’s already a countdown clock ticking.


15 posted on 04/11/2023 5:54:40 PM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: central_va

What if it hits the magazine or the diesel tank?

(Yes, the Chicom carriers are diesels.)


16 posted on 04/11/2023 5:56:53 PM PDT by OKSooner ("We're gonna put everybody over twelve out of business.")
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To: chief lee runamok

If the Taiwanese are so naive as to deny the likelihood that the ccp has so totally infiltrated the island over 30+ years that they can take it in 24 hours, they deserve what’s coming and it’s not worth a DROP of US blood or a penny’s worth of effort.

Hell, it’s what they’re doing here, too.


17 posted on 04/11/2023 5:58:34 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: chief lee runamok

I think China would have a really tough time taking Taiwan. Taiwan has a lot of ways to resist and I think Japan would join the fight even before the US.

After that China would face massive sanctions and boycotts. This would hurt them much more than Russia. Everyone needs oil and will cheat sanctions to get it. Nobody needs McDonald’s toys that much.

In addition, China gets 85% of their oil from the Persian Gulf. That could be blockaded by the US, Japan, or India and China couldn’t do anything about it unless they wanted to go nuclear.


18 posted on 04/11/2023 5:59:28 PM PDT by POWG
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Should China start massing an invasion fleet, expect Taiwan to announce they are a nuclear power.

Taiwan could go nuclear over a long weekend.


19 posted on 04/11/2023 6:01:37 PM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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Why do you imagine Taiwan is going to bleed out for globohomo?

The Chinese are a lot smarter than Ukrainians.


20 posted on 04/11/2023 6:01:52 PM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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