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As much as I like the Ukrainian people, no one cared about Crimea because it was of absolutely no strategic importance to anyone but Russia. Taiwan is critical
by evgen 6y ago
As much as I like the Ukrainian people, no one cared about Crimea because it was of absolutely no strategic importance to anyone but Russia. Taiwan is critically important to the US. The US _will_ go to war to defend it, and China knows this.
- nabla9 6y agoThe whole point of US Taiwan policy and the wording of US-Taiwan Relations Act is to make it sure that the US can refuse to war against China if it attacks Taiwan. US has treaties with South Korea and Japan that make it it clear that the US will defend them if they are under attack. The Taiwan treaty is worded in a way that US may provide assistance or limited support in a war.
- baybal2 6y ago> US has treaties with South Korea and Japan that make it it clear that the US will defend them if they are under attack. A quadrilateral nuclear disarmament treaty with Ukraine the US has signed has even more explicit wording, yet...
- nabla9 6y agoThe explicit wording states that in case violent action they would seek immediate Security Council action. That is toothless assurance when Russia is permanent member of security council.
- Shivetya 6y agoJust a change in who is President is all that China is waiting for.
- catalogia 6y agoDo you mean they're waiting for Biden, or just some hypothetical future president?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThey've waited seventy years for the right president. How many more decades will they wait and how will they react when they discover the military can probably force any president's hand?
- 101404 6y agoNo, they didn't wait for the right president. The past 40 years, they developed economically and technologically. It is only since Xi became president, that China feels confident to have a more assertive foreign policy.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago>It is only since Xi became president, that China feels confident to have a more assertive foreign policy. How so? There hasn't been a sharp rise in military spending, they haven't invaded anywhere, and they've largely maintained their same course on most of the disputed territories.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoSouth China Sea
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThe border conflict ongoing for their entire existence? Technology has advanced some of the methods, but not drastically different.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoBuilding artificial islands in disputed territory and then building non-civilian buildings is drastically different.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago