US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives China a Green Light on Taiwan: RIP Taiwan Independence

[Left Hook Tua]

i said all along america wont do anything if china invade taiwan...

Is that why we are expanding our basing rights in Philippines closer to the Taiwan strait?

Is that why we always fly planes and sail ships thru the Taiwan strait?

[Left Hook Tua]

More proof that ***** is bought and paid for by both Ukraine and China. China told Blinken the U.S. must choose between cooperation or conflict, and he blinked. He said the U.S. does not support Taiwan independence. Yet we support Ukraine's independence? Will the ******** be waving Taiwan flags the way they do Ukraine flags in a show of support? *****'s shady business deals with China while VP will allow China to move on Taiwan in the next two years.

1. Ukraine was already independent. Since 1991 with the breakup of the soviet union.

2. The status quo is that Taiwan is not a separate country.

Both China and Taiwan claim to be "china".

currently

China = communist China

Taiwan = nationalist China

They both claim to be the govt of China but nationalist China KMT only controls Taiwan while communist China controls the rest

[ProblemChild_JakePaul]

Why do you guys always think a war would lead to Armageddon?

Just like giving Ukraine weapons will lead to nuclear war right?

Ukraine doesn't build advanced chips.

They farm and export that, I suppose.

I don't picture the earth going up in a plume of smoke or anything. I picture more of an economic & supply chain collapse that leads to enormous death and destruction, and other smaller wars over limited resources.

The actual war would just turn parts of Taiwan and the ocean and maybe some parts of China or other nations into corn dust, and not the entire world.

[Madison Boxing]

Is that why we are expanding our basing rights in Philippines closer to the Taiwan strait?

Is that why we always fly planes and sail ships thru the Taiwan strait?

is just posturing, who knows but i struggle to see what america would gain from going into a full scale conflict with china in another part of the world and why the american public would be behind that... taiwan might get the ukraine treatment from the west thats about it... china isnt iraq, afghanistan or vietnam you are talking a hell of a lot of casualties if you got into a war with them even if you ended up managing to defend taiwan which im not sure you could these days

[Left Hook Tua]

is just posturing, who knows but i struggle to see what america would gain from going into a full scale conflict with china in another part of the world and why the american public would be behind that... taiwan might get the ukraine treatment from the west thats about it... china isnt iraq, afghanistan or vietnam you are talking a hell of a lot of casualties if you got into a war with them even if you ended up managing to defend taiwan which im not sure you could these days

Amphibious assaults are hard

Only the US has done it on a big scale in 80 yrs

No matter how crappy and small the Taiwanese military is

They will outnumber whatever China could send

Maybe if China sends them on civilian cargo ships

But anti ship missiles and drones and aircraft would wipe those out

[Left Hook Tua]

Ukraine doesn't build advanced chips.

They farm and export that, I suppose.

I don't picture the earth going up in a plume of smoke or anything. I picture more of an economic & supply chain collapse that leads to enormous death and destruction, and other smaller wars over limited resources.

The actual war would just turn parts of Taiwan and the ocean and maybe some parts of China or other nations into corn dust, and not the entire world.

I want to see the 3 gorges dam destroyed

[JimRaynor]

Goodbye to Taiwans independence? Taiwan is not independent, its part of China, its official name is Republic of China. The difference between mainland china and Taiwan is the government, one being Commies the other not.

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Goodbye to Taiwans independence? Taiwan is not independent, its part of China, its official name is Republic of China. The difference between mainland china and Taiwan is the government, one being Commies the other not.

The current Tsai Ing-wen administration of Taiwan maintains that Taiwan is an independent country and conducts official diplomatic relations with and is recognized by 12 member states of the United Nations and the Holy See. China has a different view.

[jaded]

Taiwan doesn't want independence right now. Recent elections, the current govt (which is pro independence) lost to the kmt (which doesn't want independence)

They know that'll provoke a war possibly.

Status quo is good.

Gives us time to arm Taiwan more (we were reluctant to arm them before) and also get our navy in order with the constellation class frigates being built.

President Tsai Ing-wen has been in power since 2016 defeating KMT, and considers Taiwan already independent.

[Left Hook Tua]

President Tsai Ing-wen has been in power since 2016 defeating KMT, and considers Taiwan already independent.

She wants independence as Taiwan

The country is already independent as the republic of China ROC(claiming all of china)

Remember

Until 1971 ROC "china" was represented by the govt in Taiwan

And most of the world recognized it as "china" and had embassies for the Taiwan govt

The only ones who recognized the peoples republic of China PROC as china before 1971 was other commie countries