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What could happen to Taiwan? I’m interested.
by rajacombinator 5y ago
What could happen to Taiwan? I’m interested.
- CRConrad 5y agoInvasion by the PRC seems the most plausible threat. So obvious, in fact, that I'm wondering why you ask.
- rajacombinator 5y agoBecause everything I’ve read indicates that scenario is not in fact plausible. I’m wondering what the more likely but potentially equivalent alternatives are.
- baybal2 5y agoYou need to understand, China does not want to reclaim Taiwan for any kind real political goal. Nobody in Beijing really cares for an armed to the teeth mountainous island. A threat of Taiwan invasion is not a threat they project to Taiwan itself, but to the world. - "Do this, and that or we are sending the world, and all your business interests back to iron age" That pretty much sums it. For this purpose, even just a missile exchange across the straight will suffice to kill world trade in a way you haven't seen even during CoVID.
- rajacombinator 5y agoHard for me to see what the profit in that is, and China seems to like profits.