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China will only attack Taiwan if it has to. China attacking Taiwan is like the US attacking Hawaii. China's red line is if Taiwan declares independence. Exactl
by simonblack 5y ago
China will only attack Taiwan if it has to. China attacking Taiwan is like the US attacking Hawaii.
China's red line is if Taiwan declares independence. Exactly the same as the Union declared war on the Confederacy when the Confederacy declared independence.
- verdverm 5y agoMost people consider Taiwan an independent country, even if the media and bosses won't say so publicly. They also have American military hardware which would never be sold to China. Having an independent military is very different from Hawaii.
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoInterestingly, the South had contended the North drew first blood by electing Lincoln, which the South perceived as an act of war. Also, OP article is unresearched junk.
- chuckee 5y agoExactly the same, in the sense that a war against Taiwan's independence is as morally justified as a war against slavery?
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoEven the least attentive of American high school students are familiar with this quote from Lincoln: If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. Also, no reading of GP would suggest a moral comparison unless the reader was actively looking for one.
- chuckee 5y agoAh. So it is merely a war against the right of national self-determination.