The invasion on Taiwan would need to be an invasion in comparable scope to D-Day to have any chance of success. It’s essentially a natural giant sea fortress. It isn’t impregnable but the military building up would need to be truly awesome. Like with Russia the accumulation of men and material would be so big you cannot hide it.
I think perhaps Taiwan has gotten complacent through decades of US support. They have funded the military to the level it should be and they reduced times for national service. They assume the Americans will bail them out. The Americans prefer ambiguity as a strategic deterrence.
Once enough chip manufacturing gets built in Europe and the US it may reduce the geopolitical arithmetic. Right now if Taiwan fell the majority of worldwide chip manufacturing would be Chinese. Other factor is China would decisive project its power into the China sea and regain big control over shipping lanes. China are playing a long game similar to Hong Kong. War will probably happen but it will be when the US is weak or extremely distracted with other problems.
The visit is as dumb as when Germany declared war on the USA December 11 1941.
Time to invest into EU-China relationship and tie our economy to China as much as we can!
Brave for what? China will complain no matter what every single time any nation looks at Taiwan and have been for 70 years, none of this is new or unexpected.
Nancy Pelosi and her husband have spent decades insider trading on the stock market getting massively rich off her position in the government. Right before she retires, she’s going to set US-China relations on fire as a parting gift. If they shoot down her plane, a majority of the country won’t care.
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Nice to know we have something lined up for 2023.
The invasion on Taiwan would need to be an invasion in comparable scope to D-Day to have any chance of success. It’s essentially a natural giant sea fortress. It isn’t impregnable but the military building up would need to be truly awesome. Like with Russia the accumulation of men and material would be so big you cannot hide it.
I think perhaps Taiwan has gotten complacent through decades of US support. They have funded the military to the level it should be and they reduced times for national service. They assume the Americans will bail them out. The Americans prefer ambiguity as a strategic deterrence.
Once enough chip manufacturing gets built in Europe and the US it may reduce the geopolitical arithmetic. Right now if Taiwan fell the majority of worldwide chip manufacturing would be Chinese. Other factor is China would decisive project its power into the China sea and regain big control over shipping lanes. China are playing a long game similar to Hong Kong. War will probably happen but it will be when the US is weak or extremely distracted with other problems.
The visit is as dumb as when Germany declared war on the USA December 11 1941.
Time to invest into EU-China relationship and tie our economy to China as much as we can!
Brave for what? China will complain no matter what every single time any nation looks at Taiwan and have been for 70 years, none of this is new or unexpected.
Nancy Pelosi and her husband have spent decades insider trading on the stock market getting massively rich off her position in the government. Right before she retires, she’s going to set US-China relations on fire as a parting gift. If they shoot down her plane, a majority of the country won’t care.