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I’m flabbergasted, this is insane. Why wouldn’t China invade Taiwan now ?
Why wouldn’t China invade Taiwan yesterday? Cheap justifications are a dime a dozen, allied fleets of over a hundred ships next door ready to respond to an invasion on a dime are not.
The allied fleets moved from China to Venezuela already.
China isn’t AS imperial as the US or Russia. They’re focused on domestic issues and spiking the price of consumer electronics by bombing fabs and spiking the price of everything else through western sanctions is not good for the domestic economy.
Eastasia has always been at war with Eurasia
Not sure if China can actually send many families’ only children into an offensive war… could be a lot of backlash…
If they die, the family’s bloodline end.
Why would China need to invade Taiwan? They assert that Taiwan is already a part of China. That would be like the US invading Kentucky. Right? Or is Taiwan a different country from China?
Two differences in your analogy.
Kentucky agrees that it is part of the US. Taiwan does not believe they are part of China.
The rest of the world agrees with the US that Kentucky is part of the US. The rest of the world does not agree that Taiwan is part of China.
Also, the US has been invading its own cities.
That’s exactly why he is invading Venezuela.
The courts have been holding him back from deploying national guard - let alone active-duty troops - domestically. He’s got ICE, but he wants more. He wants to declare martial law. He wants troops in the cities. Active-duty, Federal troops, not weekend warriors. The courts say he can’t do that without the Alien Enemies act, and they say he can’t invoke that act without a war.
So we have a war.
Taiwan does consider itself China. In fact, declaring they’re not might verywellbe the trigger for the invasion. I get that they’re de facto two separate countries, but de jure, PRC and ROC are two sides of the world’s longest and coldest civil war.
Yea, that is actually not a good analogy…
Also the US already has deployed the national guard to its own states?
Because Taiwan is where the only opposition to the ruling Chinese party lives.
I guess they would just kidnap, I mean “capture”, the president of Taiwan to be charged in their courts. No need to invade, it’s just “law enforcement” without a warrant like what Trump is doing now.
Because US needs chips.
Porcupine, plus too many other countries depend on its chips.
The United States has negotiated “Pax Silica” so that it doesn’t need Taiwan for chips…
You can’t magically mass produce a significant fraction of the 2nm chips you will need in two years just by “negotiating”. These things take decades to plan, build, train.