Posted on 05/21/2020 8:16:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You are right but GB didn’t have the stones to do it.
High tech and a disgusting ancient civilization mixed together in a oligarchic fascist regime, who complects Confusedism and Marxism all with the tone of an underlying racial superiority by some of the most genetically unflattering of human specimens in the world.
The ugly,stupid and smelly are playing with gasoline and matches telling each other how wise they are - I wonder what happens next.
Nobody needs China - the world did just fine without them - it'll take about 5 years and nobody will miss them.
This can all be summed up in an unrelated piece of ancient chinese wisdom - Man who live in paper house barbecues outside
They make a play for Taiwan they can do that once and they military which is not battle tested and super overconfident is going to get their ass handed to them
Further after this sickness China has inflict upon the people of the world the retribution will be horrific.
China is in a very bad spot IMHO - watch them do something dumber then not clamp down on the virus. They are desperate, overextended and stupid
When our economy roars back to life(I hope) the reckoning will result in their economy tanking and we will have extricated ours from depending on theirs.
Then we step on their head as they drown
How excellent would that have been?
I assume for the same reason England handed their country over to Islam: England is run by insane people.
You realize that many of those Hong Kong residents were English citizens that England would not let leave right?
You need to lean a little more and maybe it would make more sense. The people of Hong Kong legally were English Citizens, that England refused to let leave, or did you know that?
That is the rule for everyone, including us and our second amendment as well as he first belong to us as long as we can defend them, no longer.
If Harry Truman hadn't stopped Mac and Chang they would have defeated the commies that we put in power when we and the UN forced Chang out.
Maybe you should consider how the people reacted to WW II. We moved from a depression to the top manufacturer in the world in less than 4 years. We out produced everyone and even had surplus for England and Russia. We could do it again. Read some of Charlie Daniels comments and YouTube Comments and learn what a Patriot really is.
That’s 80 years ago. We’re a very different country now with a very different culture and very different people. Also, at the time we were reacting to a massive, sudden, worldwide event taking place and to America herself being attacked. I don’t believe we have that kind of can-do spirit readily available to tap into today. Particularly the youth tend to want everything handed to them on a silver platter and they only want to “work” doing what they want, when they want, how they want. You think a bunch of telecommuting coders are going to roll out en masse to do hard factory work each and every day for a fraction of their salary?
I believe our path to self-sufficiency lies in gearing up largely automated factories that produce the things we need here at home. And I believe tariffs on Chinese goods and tax incentives for manufacturing here at home are how we get there. And even with an aggressive push, I think it’ll take us at least a decade or two to get there.
But I also think it’s 100% worth it to not be stuck in bed with China. They’re liars, cheats, and thieves, and they’re selling us garbage at cheaper prices because it’s produced by slaves living in a communist hell.
“If you think Donald Trump or any US President would go to war with China over Taiwan you are out of your mind.”
We have a Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan. We are obligated to go to war if Taiwan is attacked.
Why do you think we send our Carriers and Fleets into the area and into the Taiwan Strait?
To pretend.
And, not for nothing, neither of those statements are true.
The US-ROC Mutual Defense Treaty was terminated by the United States 40 years ago.
The ChiComs have been planning this all along. And if they ever get their hands on Taiwan they will destroy it too.
The Taiwan Relations Act
Correct - there is no formal “obligation” to defend Taiwan.
Nixon and Kissinger were pretty sure we’d have open access to Chinese markets and were prepared to sell out Taiwan.
However, the language in the TRA 1979 is seen as strategically ambiguous, but the bottom line is near obligatory as you are going to get.
“The act further stipulates that the United States will “consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States”.
Diplomatically, “grave concern” is used as a use of force option.
The Taiwan Relations Act is not a treaty, and it does not promise defense.
You know as well as I do that a mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, if one were signed, could not be ratified by this or any conceivable Senate.
They were never U.K. citizens. They were British subjects.
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