Fears of a Chinese attack on Taiwan are growing, and Taiwan isn't sure who would help if it happened

[shockedcanadian]

I predicted a massive shift in global influence if Trump lost in 2020. My thinking was that Europe and Asian nations will watch to see if America remains focused on expanding their influence and projecting capitalism, or, if it will become just another socialist nation looking to control their domestic citizens. One of many nations that is incapable of stopping China from doing as it pleases. While U.S corporations and their political pals pretend their greed didn't destroy the U.S

After Hong Kong was taken back so easily, while the Brits were so focused on Russia (and appeasement of them, though they'd never admit this when their intel thought sending missiles to Ukraine was a bad idea) and pushing this narrative in the U.S (much to the pleasure of China), the CCP were expanding and eying how to topple the U.S and Western democracy.

How lucky could they be to see the U.S embroiled in terror in the M.E, then Russia in Crimea, and then an aggressive global effort to usurp the most pro-American president in many peoples lifetime, all while China expanded and laughed?

If Taiwan falls to China, America will go from Super Power to Middle Power almost overnight. Just as Canada went from Middle Power to Little Power in a generation (again, thanks to appeasing of China). The world will be drastically tilted to China and Russia and the new global supremacy. Their influence and outreach will be without limits at that point.

Fears of a Chinese attack on Taiwan are growing, and Taiwan isn't sure who would help if it happened

"This problem is much closer to us than most think," the new head of US Indo-Pacific Command said in March.

ca.news.yahoo.com

Benjamin Brimelow
Mon., May 3, 2021, 8:54 a.m.·8 min read

A concrete bunker and anti-landing barricades on a beach facing the Chinese city of Xamen, on the Taiwanese island of Little Kinmen, April 20, 2018. Carl Court/Getty Images

• China has been expanding its influence and taking a more aggressive posture toward Taiwan.
• That has raised concerns that Beijing will attempt to retake the island by force.
• Whether the US and other countries would help, and what help they would offer, remains in doubt.
• See more stories on Insider's business page.

Twenty-five years ago, two US Navy carrier strike groups were enough to deter possible Chinese military action against Taiwan after China launched missiles that landed a few dozen miles off its coast.
Now, after a massive modernization effort by China's military, known as the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, two carrier strike groups, and possibly US forces alone, may not be enough.
This is especially daunting for Taiwan, as it is unclear if it can get help from anyone else if, or when, the time comes.
In March, Adm. Philip Davidson, then head of US Indo-Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that China could invade Taiwan in the next six years.
A few days later, Adm. John Aquilino, Davidson's successor, declined to comment on that assessment but said that China views Taiwan "as their No. 1 priority" and that, in his opinion, "this problem is much closer to us than most think."

 

[rightwinger]

Taiwan would kick their ass

They have done nothing but prepare for a Chinese attack for 70 years. They have a modern air force, submarines, anti ship missiles, mines, SAMs.......all set to sink a Chinese invasion force

 

[james bond]

Everyone knows Biden is China's puppet. Even Donald J. Trump said so as POTUS.

Taiwan would kick their ass

They have done nothing but prepare for a Chinese attack for 70 years. They have a modern air force, submarines, anti ship missiles, mines......all set to sink a a Chinese invasion force

US has to protect Taiwan with their nukes.

 

[Moonglow]

But it doesn't scare him when the West goes all colonialism on the planet?

 

[rightwinger]

Everyone knows Biden is China's puppet. Even Donald J. Trump said so as POTUS.

Taiwan would kick their ass

They have done nothing but prepare for a Chinese attack for 70 years. They have a modern air force, submarines, anti ship missiles, mines......all set to sink a a Chinese invasion force

US has to protect Taiwan with their nukes.

Assuming China would dare to nuke Taiwan
Highly unlikely

 

[Moonglow]

Does the OP know that Taiwan is occupied by the Chinese?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Does the OP know that Taiwan is occupied by the Chinese?

Please define "occupied".

You want to know a major reason why Taiwan didn't receive he Wuhan Virus in such destructive numbes as the rest of the world? Not too long before the outbreak, China had prevented its own citizens in the Mainland from visiting Taiwan, in an effort to hurt their tourism for some policy Taiwan had enacted. It's not the first time the CCP have done this to punish another country. It was a blessing in disguise.

So, explain occupied for me. They are two systems, and Taiwan is a step way from declaring Independence. As their PM stated before, "we are already independent, whether we declare it or not".

Now, with China walking into HK and forcing extreme security laws while the West did NOTHING, the message to the pro-Western citizens is "just submit to us. You saw how easily we did what we wanted. Where were your loyal Western allies when you needed them"?

Allowing Taiwan to be forced into CCP hands, along with their chip technology, would even more rapidly accelerate Chinas takeover of the planet, and the U.S and Western demise.

The most incompetent leadership and patsy corporations who just echoed what the were told for 30 years, has lead to this moment.

 

[Moonglow]

You don't know what occupied means?
Occupied-being used by someone.

 

[Moonglow]

Now, with China walking into HK and forcing extreme security laws while the West did NOTHING, the message to the pro-Western citizens is "just submit to us. You saw how easily we did what we wanted. Where were your loyal Western allies when you needed them"?

Besides platitudes Trump did nothing about an island occupied by Britain during the Opium war with China.

Damn it! There is that word occupied, again...Do I need to define it?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Now, with China walking into HK and forcing extreme security laws while the West did NOTHING, the message to the pro-Western citizens is "just submit to us. You saw how easily we did what we wanted. Where were your loyal Western allies when you needed them"?

Besides platitudes Trump did nothing about an island occupied by Britain during the Opium war with China.

Damn it! There is that word occupied, again...Do I need to define it?

Yes, define it please. Then can you use it in the sentence in which the context of the CCP doing so to Taiwan is applied. Thank you.

 

[Moonglow]

Now, with China walking into HK and forcing extreme security laws while the West did NOTHING, the message to the pro-Western citizens is "just submit to us. You saw how easily we did what we wanted. Where were your loyal Western allies when you needed them"?

Besides platitudes Trump did nothing about an island occupied by Britain during the Opium war with China.

Damn it! There is that word occupied, again...Do I need to define it?

Yes, define it please. Then can you use it in the sentence in which the context of the CCP doing so to Taiwan is applied. Thank you.

Taiwan was occupied by the defeated Chinese when the Nationalist fled mainland China.

 

[ESay]

Taiwan was occupied by the defeated Chinese when the Nationalist fled mainland China

The Taiwanese are the Chinese per se (the Han Chinese). It is the same nation.

 

[rightwinger]

China has too much to lose by invading Taiwan.

Firstly, the Mega Billion Corporations would face a global boycott. China wants to become a global leader. An unprovoked attack on Taiwan will not allow that.

Secondly, Taiwan is prepared for an invasion. China would suffer tremendous losses

 

[shockedcanadian]

China has too much to lose by invading Taiwan.

Firstly, the Mega Billion Corporations would face a global boycott. China wants to become a global leader. An unprovoked attack on Taiwan will not allow that.

Secondly, Taiwan is prepared for an invasion. China would suffer tremendous losses

China has publicly threatened America and their citizens. They have spied, poisoned nations and were silent about a virus they unleashed to the world. They have walked into Hong Kong and arrested citizens and pushed domestic laws that go hard against foreigners because they could all be "spies".

You think after all of this, that China is at all afraid of economic consequences? They own the worlds elite and they will continue to use them to take over the world. They sacrificed their own citizens to be used as slave labour, and made many people billionaires. These billionaires don't give a damn about the crocodile until it's too late. They fool Western nations to move there, then steal their IP.

Oh and I almost forgot, did you order your China Olympics sweatshirt yet (made in a sweatshop I'm sure)?
"First they came for the communists..."

 

[rightwinger]

China has too much to lose by invading Taiwan.

Firstly, the Mega Billion Corporations would face a global boycott. China wants to become a global leader. An unprovoked attack on Taiwan will not allow that.

Secondly, Taiwan is prepared for an invasion. China would suffer tremendous losses

China has publicly threatened America and their citizens. They have spied, poisoned nations and were silent about a virus they unleashed to the world. They have walked into Hong Kong and arrested citizens and pushed domestic laws that go hard against foreigners because they could all be "spies".

You think after all of this, that China is at all afraid of economic consequences? They own the worlds elite and they will continue to use them to take over the world. They sacrificed their own citizens to be used as slave labour, and made many people billionaires. These billionaires don't give a damn about the crocodile until it's too late. They fool Western nations to move there, then steal their IP.

Oh and I almost forgot, did you order your China Olympics sweatshirt yet (made in a sweatshop I'm sure)?
"First they came for the communists..."

Yup

The days of Chinese isolationism are over. They are now controlled by the capitalists

 

[Quasar44]

I predicted a massive shift in global influence if Trump lost in 2020. My thinking was that Europe and Asian nations will watch to see if America remains focused on expanding their influence and projecting capitalism, or, if it will become just another socialist nation looking to control their domestic citizens. One of many nations that is incapable of stopping China from doing as it pleases. While U.S corporations and their political pals pretend their greed didn't destroy the U.S

After Hong Kong was taken back so easily, while the Brits were so focused on Russia (and appeasement of them, though they'd never admit this when their intel thought sending missiles to Ukraine was a bad idea) and pushing this narrative in the U.S (much to the pleasure of China), the CCP were expanding and eying how to topple the U.S and Western democracy.

How lucky could they be to see the U.S embroiled in terror in the M.E, then Russia in Crimea, and then an aggressive global effort to usurp the most pro-American president in many peoples lifetime, all while China expanded and laughed?

If Taiwan falls to China, America will go from Super Power to Middle Power almost overnight. Just as Canada went from Middle Power to Little Power in a generation (again, thanks to appeasing of China). The world will be drastically tilted to China and Russia and the new global supremacy. Their influence and outreach will be without limits at that point.

Fears of a Chinese attack on Taiwan are growing, and Taiwan isn't sure who would help if it happened

"This problem is much closer to us than most think," the new head of US Indo-Pacific Command said in March.

ca.news.yahoo.com

Benjamin Brimelow
Mon., May 3, 2021, 8:54 a.m.·8 min read

A concrete bunker and anti-landing barricades on a beach facing the Chinese city of Xamen, on the Taiwanese island of Little Kinmen, April 20, 2018. Carl Court/Getty Images

• China has been expanding its influence and taking a more aggressive posture toward Taiwan.
• That has raised concerns that Beijing will attempt to retake the island by force.
• Whether the US and other countries would help, and what help they would offer, remains in doubt.
• See more stories on Insider's business page.

Twenty-five years ago, two US Navy carrier strike groups were enough to deter possible Chinese military action against Taiwan after China launched missiles that landed a few dozen miles off its coast.
Now, after a massive modernization effort by China's military, known as the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, two carrier strike groups, and possibly US forces alone, may not be enough.
This is especially daunting for Taiwan, as it is unclear if it can get help from anyone else if, or when, the time comes.
In March, Adm. Philip Davidson, then head of US Indo-Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that China could invade Taiwan in the next six years.
A few days later, Adm. John Aquilino, Davidson's successor, declined to comment on that assessment but said that China views Taiwan "as their No. 1 priority" and that, in his opinion, "this problem is much closer to us than most think."

I am 100 percent against any war due to Ukraine or Taiwan

 

[whitehall]

It probably won't happen with Chinese forces landing on the shore and taking over the capital by force. It will happen after agreements between Biden and China come to pass and one day Taiwanese will wake up to a new regime. The American media will ignore it or justify it because it happened under a democrat administration and nobody will hear the cries of free people who have lost it all.

 

[Unkotare]

Taiwan was occupied by the defeated Chinese when the Nationalist fled mainland China

The Taiwanese are the Chinese per se (the Han Chinese). It is the same nation.

Not really.

 

[DudleySmith]

Does the OP know that Taiwan is occupied by the Chinese?

Please define "occupied".

You want to know a major reason why Taiwan didn't receive he Wuhan Virus in such destructive numbes as the rest of the world? Not too long before the outbreak, China had prevented its own citizens in the Mainland from visiting Taiwan, in an effort to hurt their tourism for some policy Taiwan had enacted. It's not the first time the CCP have done this to punish another country. It was a blessing in disguise.

So, explain occupied for me. They are two systems, and Taiwan is a step way from declaring Independence. As their PM stated before, "we are already independent, whether we declare it or not".

Now, with China walking into HK and forcing extreme security laws while the West did NOTHING, the message to the pro-Western citizens is "just submit to us. You saw how easily we did what we wanted. Where were your loyal Western allies when you needed them"?

Allowing Taiwan to be forced into CCP hands, along with their chip technology, would even more rapidly accelerate Chinas takeover of the planet, and the U.S and Western demise.

The most incompetent leadership and patsy corporations who just echoed what the were told for 30 years, has lead to this moment.

Many Asians also were wearing masks in public long before this epidemic hit the U.S.; they have all kinds of flus and other respiratory disease running rampant in Asia.

 

[DudleySmith]

China has too much to lose by invading Taiwan.

Firstly, the Mega Billion Corporations would face a global boycott. China wants to become a global leader. An unprovoked attack on Taiwan will not allow that.

Secondly, Taiwan is prepared for an invasion. China would suffer tremendous losses

China has publicly threatened America and their citizens. They have spied, poisoned nations and were silent about a virus they unleashed to the world. They have walked into Hong Kong and arrested citizens and pushed domestic laws that go hard against foreigners because they could all be "spies".

You think after all of this, that China is at all afraid of economic consequences? They own the worlds elite and they will continue to use them to take over the world. They sacrificed their own citizens to be used as slave labour, and made many people billionaires. These billionaires don't give a damn about the crocodile until it's too late. They fool Western nations to move there, then steal their IP.

Oh and I almost forgot, did you order your China Olympics sweatshirt yet (made in a sweatshop I'm sure)?
"First they came for the communists..."

Biden will aid Red China's imperialism; the REds are always imperialist, and there fans love that and cover it by incessantly lying and whining about imaginary American imperialism.