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Taiwan is next, in 10 years.
by akomtu 5y ago
Taiwan is next, in 10 years.
- est 5y agoTaiwan was like this 40 years ago.
- koonsolo 5y agoTaiwan is not easy to invade.
- bpodgursky 5y agoNeither was Ukraine.
- hoseja 5y agoHuh? What feature of the steppe Ukraine lays on makes it difficult to invade?
- tsjq 5y agothe grass ;)
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoIt's hard to walk on. You have to watch your... steppe. Right, I'll show myself out...
- kenneth 5y agoTaiwan is an island, Ukraine shares a flat plateau border with Russia and has a large separatist population. Taiwan is also uniquely important to the west in a way that Ukraine wasn't. Taiwan is a LOT harder to invade than Ukraine. Not comparable at all.
- robjan 5y agoThe government of Taiwan does not report into the Chinese Central Government like in Hong Kong. It's controlled by an independent government on disputed land.
- akomtu 5y agoWhat matters is CCP wants it. The disputed land status will be used as a pretense. The US won't dare to start a war and will write off the loss. Other countries won't even dare to comment on the situation.
- sumedh 5y ago> The US won't dare to start a war and will write off the loss. Isnt Taiwan too valuable right now for the US specially TSMC. US will need to step in to protect Taiwan to protect US interests.
- akomtu 5y agoThe US can't do much about this today and in ten years it will be too busy with internal squabbles about which admiral is more politically correct. CCP has personal reasons to axe Taiwan. When the CCP fought the original "feudal" government, leaders of the latter fled to Taiwan. The island reminds CCP about its past. The capitalist nature of Taiwan is another reason: it's undermining the CCP ideology. TSMC is a distant third economic reason.
- tjpnz 5y agoThe US starts wars all the time. The CCP would have made a grave error in judgement if it thought this would be any different. If the US walked away from Taiwan that puts South Korea, Japan and other allies in SE Asia at risk. Not going to happen.
- iheartlife 5y agoThey said the same thing about HK: "If the US walked away from HK that puts Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and other allies in SE Asia at risk. Not going to happen" Look at where we are now :|
- tjpnz 5y agoThat's a bit different. While China did for all intents and purposes violate the agreement it had signed in the 90s nobody would question the legitimacy of the handover itself. Hong Kong of course doesn't have the American military machine deployed within its borders either. Having driven by some of those bases I'm kind of in awe - and that's just the stuff on public roads.