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You gotta figure if the Chinese Politburo handicaps each US president on the odds of no US military response to a forceful re-unification attempt Trump is defin
by jbigelow76 8y ago
You gotta figure if the Chinese Politburo handicaps each US president on the odds of no US military response to a forceful re-unification attempt Trump is definitely going to be their horse.
Happy New Year, cross your fingers 2019 doesn't go down in history books as the start of World War 3 :)
- fipple 8y agoCan’t think of any recent US President that would start a war with China over Taiwan. China will take Taiwan when it feels like it.
- yellowapple 8y agoA US President will be unlikely to (voluntarily) start a war with China directly, but the US and Taiwan stand to mutually benefit from the US beefing up its military aid to Taiwan (the US because Taiwan is a massive allied economy that's enough of a threat to China for China to want to assert control, and Taiwan because they probably don't want to be steamrolled by a dictatorship).
- polotics 8y agoI disagree. Letting the xijinping-dictatorship take over a democratic country would open the door for any and all further Asian invasions. The best chance to show all Hans that freedom can be won is on Taiwan.
- CathayRe 8y agoI don't see how a War could happen between two Nations that has Nukes. Do they agree on not to use Nuke before the war? There won't ever be a World War 3, if there is the next one might very well be the end of human civilisation.
- flukus 8y agoMost nations have adopted a "no first use" doctrine, a promise not to use nukes until their enemy does. The only nuclear powers not to adopt this are the US and north Korea.