Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but the timing has not yet been decided, according to three current and former U.S. officials.
Well that’s terrifying
It looks like Xi is hell bent on ruining his own economy.
I keep telling people a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is definitely going to happen, probably by 2027 if the CIA’s info is accurate. Xi sees the polite status quo (“everybody knows Taiwan isn’t really part of China, but acts like it is”) eroding, the Chinese people see it too, and they regard it as an unacceptable insult to Chinese sovereignty. They’ve been trying a typically hamfisted propaganda campaign for years now — getting Disney to use altered maps and such — but it’s not working, the Western public is not amused, the Taiwanese have zero interest in peaceful reunification, and a military conflict is inevitable.
I would not describe myself as an alarmist, but I’m stocking up on canned goods just in case, because a shooting war in the Strait could end very badly.
Honestly, I believe he’s actually being truthful. Not many people actually believed Putin would launch a full scale war out of nowhere, but here we are. Between Ukraine and Iran stirring up trouble in the Middle East, I think China attacking Taiwan is the last piece of the puzzle
Reason #43 why the R’s cosplay in not funding Ukraine is dragging us into WWIII….this time bigger and better in the nuclear age.
Like during Pangea?
PRC never ruled Taiwan so it won’t be a reunification – it will be an invasion and occupation if the disgusting Chinese dictatorship pull a dirty action like their genocidal friends in Russia
25 million Taiwanese don’t want to be part of PRC and why would they? Taiwan is a highly successful democratic country while China is a declining dirty dictatorship with the second most oppressive government on the planet. Who, with a sane mind would want to give up what Taiwan has to reduce Taiwan to such a grotesque state that China is
Fun fact: Taiwanese has visa free travel all over the world including Europe while the Chinese passport is one of the weakest and you get stuck in China with it due to many rejections to enter USA or EU
Companies gtfo of China before then.
And that is why America can’t back down in Ukraine…
Can we just do WWIII? It seems everyone is aching for it
the taiwan strait is a trade route lol
Japan, Korea and the Philippines won’t like this shit at all
I’m not convinced China could actually pull it off tbh.
Anyone who has convinced themselves this isn’t happening needs to pay more attention. Recognizing it’s likely doesn’t mean I want it to happen, but I really think it’s going to happen. Xi is adamant, he has publicly said it’s happening many times, and he doesn’t strike me as the type that will lose face with his people over this.
I don’t think it’s a matter of if but rather how bad is it going to get when it does happen. And I don’t personally believe it’s to the level of stocking up canned goods and non-perishables, but I absolutely expect consumer shock when the supply chain is inevitably fucked. I think it’s people’s panic that will cause the bigger issues and not the lack of products from China.
I think the current White House feels similarly and I am glad they do because it means someone, somewhere, is planning scenarios and responses to the domestic shock. Biden’s willingness to use the Defense Production Act is a positive in my mind, and I hope far greater strides are taken at removing as much of our supply chain from China as we can before the curtain rises.
Hard to reunify something if it was always one country isn’t it?
Wait. Xi, are you suggesting that Taiwan is not already part of China? Uh oh.
If this happens, it will mark the start of WW3.
Can we prep and offer expedited green cards for Taiwanese? Seems like a lot of human capital lost to China.
The Americans probably just said “let us finish bringing over semiconductor tech and then it’s all yours”.
Good luck Paper Tiger China.
Both sides are for peaceful unification, aren’t they?
I mean majority of the population of both countries..
If US support for Ukraine falters why wouldn’t the Chinese Government feel emboldened?
Putin & Xi are in their 70’s. They’re making their move against the US, together. They likely own countless members of Congress, and had/have Trump in their corner. SCOTUS is owned and will likely leave an opening for Trump when the time comes. Corporations are on board as well, increasing prices everywhere on everything in order to squeeze people and turn them against Biden. The coup is still underway.
Hey, Joe, just a head’s up, we’re planning on permanently destroying our own economy. Love, Pooh Bear.
The Taiwanese people of an already independent country say… fuck you Xi.
Just remember that only 14 countries recognize Taiwan and non of them are in NATO
has Xi asked the independent nation of Taiwan if they wanna reunify?
Oh sure it’s easy to say, tough to do. This statement is for the Chinese public
Reunify my arse, what he means is “invade”.
*’Xi told Biden in a group meeting attended by a dozen American and Chinese officials that China’s preference is to take Taiwan peacefully, not by force, the officials said.’*
Isn’t that just a restatement of longstanding Chinese policy rather than a threat?
A military that hasn’t participated in warfare for nearly 80 years invading the most heavily fortified island in the world backed by the USN. Good luck.
Maybe we’ll restore the Republic of China instead, Commie the Pooh.
“Breaking: China repeats the same thing they’ve been saying for the last hundred years.”
Why is China the one always doing the warning being that it’s also always the aggressor
Of all the problems our world leaders could be solving, they just decide to cause more problems.
After seeing what China did to Hong Kong, I doubt Taiwan would ever agree to a peaceful merger with China.
Hopefully we warned right back that the US will not allow it.
Give Taiwan nuclear weapons. They have a stable government so there isn’t much danger of them falling into the wrong hands.
I wish more people in USA recognized the importance of ukraine and taiwan. If we allow these countries to be taken, then democracy across the world is over, and an era of highly authoritarian and nationalistic regimes is going to be the new standard. It’s absolutely imperative that we do not allow trump back into office who would 100% allow these countries to be taken.
Reunify – resistance is futile! Just say senseless land grab to please sino supremacists.
It may sound ridiculous, but Taiwan, too, has a claim on mainland China.
Since the current Kuomintang party never signed any peace treaty with the CCP ever since they got exiled.
Technically, they are still at civil war. 🤷
Xi has building up for years for this, militarily and structures. Now, many people dont seem to think that he will do it because economically it can destroy China. However, if China did manage to succeed and had a monopoly on semi conductor chips, guess who is going to have the leverage? I would imagine they would, maybe im wrong but Taiwan is so incredibly important to the world. If anything will start a world war, personally I think it is this. taiwan and what they are producing is priceless and there isnt a place in the world that can do what they can atm.
Id imagine he will wait until the US continues to exhaust themselves along with other western countries via ukraine, israel, etc.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but the timing has not yet been decided, according to three current and former U.S. officials.
Well that’s terrifying
It looks like Xi is hell bent on ruining his own economy.
I keep telling people a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is definitely going to happen, probably by 2027 if the CIA’s info is accurate. Xi sees the polite status quo (“everybody knows Taiwan isn’t really part of China, but acts like it is”) eroding, the Chinese people see it too, and they regard it as an unacceptable insult to Chinese sovereignty. They’ve been trying a typically hamfisted propaganda campaign for years now — getting Disney to use altered maps and such — but it’s not working, the Western public is not amused, the Taiwanese have zero interest in peaceful reunification, and a military conflict is inevitable.
I would not describe myself as an alarmist, but I’m stocking up on canned goods just in case, because a shooting war in the Strait could end very badly.
Honestly, I believe he’s actually being truthful. Not many people actually believed Putin would launch a full scale war out of nowhere, but here we are. Between Ukraine and Iran stirring up trouble in the Middle East, I think China attacking Taiwan is the last piece of the puzzle
Reason #43 why the R’s cosplay in not funding Ukraine is dragging us into WWIII….this time bigger and better in the nuclear age.
Like during Pangea?
PRC never ruled Taiwan so it won’t be a reunification – it will be an invasion and occupation if the disgusting Chinese dictatorship pull a dirty action like their genocidal friends in Russia
25 million Taiwanese don’t want to be part of PRC and why would they? Taiwan is a highly successful democratic country while China is a declining dirty dictatorship with the second most oppressive government on the planet. Who, with a sane mind would want to give up what Taiwan has to reduce Taiwan to such a grotesque state that China is
Fun fact: Taiwanese has visa free travel all over the world including Europe while the Chinese passport is one of the weakest and you get stuck in China with it due to many rejections to enter USA or EU
Companies gtfo of China before then.
And that is why America can’t back down in Ukraine…
Can we just do WWIII? It seems everyone is aching for it
the taiwan strait is a trade route lol
Japan, Korea and the Philippines won’t like this shit at all
I’m not convinced China could actually pull it off tbh.
Anyone who has convinced themselves this isn’t happening needs to pay more attention. Recognizing it’s likely doesn’t mean I want it to happen, but I really think it’s going to happen. Xi is adamant, he has publicly said it’s happening many times, and he doesn’t strike me as the type that will lose face with his people over this.
I don’t think it’s a matter of if but rather how bad is it going to get when it does happen. And I don’t personally believe it’s to the level of stocking up canned goods and non-perishables, but I absolutely expect consumer shock when the supply chain is inevitably fucked. I think it’s people’s panic that will cause the bigger issues and not the lack of products from China.
I think the current White House feels similarly and I am glad they do because it means someone, somewhere, is planning scenarios and responses to the domestic shock. Biden’s willingness to use the Defense Production Act is a positive in my mind, and I hope far greater strides are taken at removing as much of our supply chain from China as we can before the curtain rises.
Hard to reunify something if it was always one country isn’t it?
Wait. Xi, are you suggesting that Taiwan is not already part of China? Uh oh.
If this happens, it will mark the start of WW3.
Can we prep and offer expedited green cards for Taiwanese? Seems like a lot of human capital lost to China.
The Americans probably just said “let us finish bringing over semiconductor tech and then it’s all yours”.
Good luck Paper Tiger China.
Both sides are for peaceful unification, aren’t they?
I mean majority of the population of both countries..
If US support for Ukraine falters why wouldn’t the Chinese Government feel emboldened?
Putin & Xi are in their 70’s. They’re making their move against the US, together. They likely own countless members of Congress, and had/have Trump in their corner. SCOTUS is owned and will likely leave an opening for Trump when the time comes. Corporations are on board as well, increasing prices everywhere on everything in order to squeeze people and turn them against Biden. The coup is still underway.
Hey, Joe, just a head’s up, we’re planning on permanently destroying our own economy. Love, Pooh Bear.
The Taiwanese people of an already independent country say… fuck you Xi.
Just remember that only 14 countries recognize Taiwan and non of them are in NATO
has Xi asked the independent nation of Taiwan if they wanna reunify?
Oh sure it’s easy to say, tough to do. This statement is for the Chinese public
Reunify my arse, what he means is “invade”.
*’Xi told Biden in a group meeting attended by a dozen American and Chinese officials that China’s preference is to take Taiwan peacefully, not by force, the officials said.’*
Isn’t that just a restatement of longstanding Chinese policy rather than a threat?
A military that hasn’t participated in warfare for nearly 80 years invading the most heavily fortified island in the world backed by the USN. Good luck.
Maybe we’ll restore the Republic of China instead, Commie the Pooh.
“Breaking: China repeats the same thing they’ve been saying for the last hundred years.”
Why is China the one always doing the warning being that it’s also always the aggressor
Of all the problems our world leaders could be solving, they just decide to cause more problems.
After seeing what China did to Hong Kong, I doubt Taiwan would ever agree to a peaceful merger with China.
Hopefully we warned right back that the US will not allow it.
Give Taiwan nuclear weapons. They have a stable government so there isn’t much danger of them falling into the wrong hands.
I wish more people in USA recognized the importance of ukraine and taiwan. If we allow these countries to be taken, then democracy across the world is over, and an era of highly authoritarian and nationalistic regimes is going to be the new standard. It’s absolutely imperative that we do not allow trump back into office who would 100% allow these countries to be taken.
Reunify – resistance is futile! Just say senseless land grab to please sino supremacists.
It may sound ridiculous, but Taiwan, too, has a claim on mainland China.
Since the current Kuomintang party never signed any peace treaty with the CCP ever since they got exiled.
Technically, they are still at civil war. 🤷
Xi has building up for years for this, militarily and structures. Now, many people dont seem to think that he will do it because economically it can destroy China. However, if China did manage to succeed and had a monopoly on semi conductor chips, guess who is going to have the leverage? I would imagine they would, maybe im wrong but Taiwan is so incredibly important to the world. If anything will start a world war, personally I think it is this. taiwan and what they are producing is priceless and there isnt a place in the world that can do what they can atm.
Id imagine he will wait until the US continues to exhaust themselves along with other western countries via ukraine, israel, etc.