The Chinese leader Biden told China’s ambitions to control Taiwan were unchanged at a meeting meant to reduce tensions.
… try… they’re going to try to take over Taiwan.
No, they would very thoroughly lose. China’s in no condition to take on the US, let alone decouple its economy from the global community.
“global” is turning out to be a small handful of countries, and the other block is actively securing the rest of the world into their influence
I mean, I agree, but that doesn’t mean China could “win” in an offensive military action against Taiwan. Taiwan is literally a fortress and Taiwan/China cultural overlap is too significant to drive strong warmongering sentiment.
An invasion is such a silly suggestion that it doesn’t even need consideration. At best, it would be a pyrrhic victory with millions dead on both sides and the island in ruins.
The far more likely scenario is a
blockade, sorry, “economic embargo” of Taiwan… Of course, Cuba is a clear example of how ablockadeeconomic embargo doesn’t really work, so…
I wish Biden had the balls to tell him to his face: “no you won’t”.
“Oh come on Jack.”
Has anyone read the founding documents of the PRC from 1949 1949? China’s policy has always been “we will unify with Taiwan, by military means if necessary.” It’s like saying “God Save The Queen” or “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” There’s a fundamental gap between what’s written officially as a matter of “this is what I believe” and what’s implemented in policy.
If it didn’t warrant a hostile reaction a decade ago, it doesn’t warrant one today. China isn’t any closer to military action against Taiwan today than they were a decade ago. The First, Second, and Third Taiwan Strait Crises showed that the status quo would be basically impossible to flip militarily without millions of lives lost. It’s much easier to just expand trade, expand travel, expand cultural interchange, and expand immigration.
