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You do realize China thinks and claims it owns Taiwan. If Taiwan refused to do business with a Chinese company on behalf of the US, you'd be guaranteed to have
by fgonzag 7y ago
You do realize China thinks and claims it owns Taiwan. If Taiwan refused to do business with a Chinese company on behalf of the US, you'd be guaranteed to have the Chinese army there within the week. China-Taiwan relations are nothing to fuck with, unless the US is willing to spill major blood.
To China this is no different than the US demanding a Tibetan village stop trading with China.
- teknologist 7y agoThe analysis says that China would "spill" plenty of blood in that situation too, and the outcome might not be as predictable as you think... https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-with-china https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...
- fgonzag 7y agoThe whole point of the preceding paragraph is stating that china is absolutely willing to spill blood over Taiwan. We're asking if the US govt has enough political capital to fight a war against a country with an actual army over literally nothing at all. The US hasn't fought one of those since World War II, and it hasn't had a war with major casualties since Vietnam IRC? China doesn't care if half its army comes back home in body bags. Their country is built on extreme nationalism and Taiwan going off script is an existential threat to their model. Could the US population tolerate a casualty rate much much higher than Vietnam, especially over an economic dispute? Nobody is disputing the US would beat China in a war.