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T-Day: The Battle for Taiwan
- simonblack 5y agoChina won't invade or go to war against 'Chinese Taipei' unless they have to. Why would they? That'd be like belting your girlfriend up because she doesn't agree with you. And then, China would have to spend trillions to fix up all that damage, as well as have many killed and maimed on both sides of the Strait. A waste of lives and money. As with your girlfriend, it's a lot better to talk it through. China's red line for conflict is a Taiwanese Declaration of Independence. That's a red line for most countries, China included. The United States also included, as actually did happen back in 1861 when the Confederacy declared it was independent from the United States. I seem to remember invasions by both sides, and an infamous 'March to the Sea'.
- mrlonglong 5y agoI'd say that, but Xi Grand Pooh has made it a prime objective to achieve reunification with Taiwan before 2049, the 100th year anniversary. It's time the USA signed a defence pact with Taiwan.
- pc2g4d 5y agoWell that was sobering. To bad we never did that pivot to Asia... Taiwan does seem like issue that could unify the American left and right.
- pimlottc 5y agoThis is a pretty cool and impressive article. Unfortunately it “crashes” and resets if I try to scroll back up on mobile (Safari on iOS 15.1).
- darkteflon 5y agoThe content is very interesting but those scroll-triggered animations are obnoxious. For marketing a product or something, okay - but as graphics interrupting the flow of an article, no thanks - especially with this aggressive military aesthetic they’ve got going on. Unfortunately they seem to be quite in vogue at the moment.
- nabla9 5y agoAgree. Tip: In Firefox you can toggle reader view and it fixes it. I don't know how you do it in Safari and Chrome, but there must be extension or plugin at least.