How are they going to take it “peacefully”….
With Ukraine and Israeli war ongoing and a senile weak US president ,early next year might be a good time to try before Trump is back
On the other hand many experts say the Chinese military isn’t quite ready yet and may be several years away still
But decision time for Xi
“Peacefully” is a euphemism used by the commies ... here ... it means that the US will stay out of it.
Since it is coming out of NBC, not sure how much of this is believable. It could be written to create an impression about how FJB “stands up” to the CCP that bought him off with payments through Hunter .... and quite cheaply at that.
All China has to do is work for the people of Taiwan to elect a pro-reconciliation govt and put a merger plan to the vote.
I would guess that seeing what war has done to other US “ allies” and proxies would influence the Taiwanese to choose another path than being patsies for our MIC to run up more Billions in weapon sales using Taiwan as bait to get a war going vs China.
At the present time the US is unable to make any difference militarily in the Pacific if China decides to act. We don’t even have enough sailors to man our ships much less fight a war. China may not be perfectly prepared, but they might follow the Rumsfeld doctrine: “you go to war with the army you have, not the army you want.” In the perception of China, the U.S. has become what President Richard Nixon vowed we would never be: “a pitiful helpless giant.”
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Once the imported masses begin their controlled chaos, all bets are off.