China - Taiwan Developments

The Coming War Over Taiwan

The U.S. is running out of time to prevent a cataclysmic war in the Western Pacific. While the world has been focused on Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, Xi Jinping appears to be preparing for an even more consequential onslaught against Taiwan. Mr. Xi’s China is fueled by a dangerous mix of strength and weakness: Faced with profound economic, demographic and strategic problems, it will be tempted to use its burgeoning military power to transform the existing order while it still has the opportunity.

This peaking-power syndrome—the tendency for rising states to become more aggressive as they become more fearful of impending decline—has caused some of the bloodiest wars in history. Unless the U.S. and its allies act quickly, it could trigger a conflict that would make the war in Ukraine look minor by comparison.
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Thank heavens for this if true. The reality of a Chinese-led global order is a very scary prospect!
 
wingnut771 said:
Taiwan makes 99% of the worlds cpu’s. Nothing will happen.
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Ukraine's foreign legion will pale in comparison to even a tiny fraction of the 1 billion PC gamers who will sign up to fight in Taiwan when China threatens to destroy the factories that make NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards. :p
 
Does DJI drones that are ripping through Russian infantry and dropping grenades down open hatches are piloted by gamers. There is a reason that militaries prefer using console controllers in a lot of hardware.
 
Defiler said:
Holy ****! I better call in, can't have Chynah taking away my GPUs!

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Paulsie said:
The USD is still the main global reserve (as well as international settlement) currency; and I believe also the Swift exchange currency. The US prescribes that if any financial transaction anywhere in the world takes place in, or involves the USD, it falls under US jurisdiction. And the US is trying damn hard to keep it that way.

Even though it is a Ponzi currency, it is still mightier than the US weaponry.
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Yep, and lets not forget - CHINA pegged the Yuan to the US$. Cant blame the US for that,
 
Nicodeamus said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1555659763081420800
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In retrospect, what is remarkable is how uncontroversial this was at the time. The Communist Party had long supported independence for Taiwan, rather than reincorporation into China. At its sixth congress in 1928 the Communist Party had recognised the ‘Taiwanese as a separate nationality.” In November 1938 the party plenum resolved to “build an anti-Japanese united front between the Chinese and the Korean, Taiwanese and other peoples,” implicitly drawing a distinction between Taiwanese and Chinese. At this time, in the Communist view, the Taiwanese were a separate minzu or nation. This continued into the early 1940s with articles by both Zhou Enlai, in July 1941, and Marshall Zhu De, in November 1941 describing the future liberated Taiwan as a separate nation-state. Even when the Communist Party declared war on Japan in December 1941, its announcement listed the people of Taiwan separately from the Chinese.

It was only after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into the Second World War that China’s Nationalist government began to see the possibility of the defeat of Japan. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek saw an opportunity to reclaim Taiwan as a “buffer” to protect the core homeland. This still seems to be the vision of China’s leaders today. Yet the boundaries of China’s territory are recent creations and far from being the sacred national symbols that present-day leaders claim them to be.
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From the twitter article link.

Thank you.
 
Howdy said:
That might be correct, depending if you understood it right. Maybe you need @HunterNW to explain it to you.


Tbh, we don't find it joyful discussing people dying in wars at parties. But then again, we prefer braais and laughing at idiotic things idiots do.

Btw, I told a friend twice today to f off. He did not seem as triggered as you are. That was right before he suggested we hold a braai on Sunday. So maybe it's not me, maybe it's you.

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When I'm at parties I put up comments of @Cray and then we all laugh and laugh. :sneaky:
 
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