Any risk of the defense exports to China were laced with trojan horse spyware the same way that 767 Boeing that was delivered to China for Jiang Zemin discovered 27 wiretapping devices??
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Geographic Mapping system.
APU 100% damaged. That's gonna be an expensive repair.
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RR. Ultrafan
People on all sides (Chinese idiot liberals and all the western zeitgeists) have forgotten that beneath all the facade from the prose of "democracy, human rights, freedom" blah blah is ECONOMIC PROSPERITY and the ability to feed one's family, provide for education, roof over one's head etc. And that the world as we know and inhabit runs on UNCLEAN ENERGY in order for us to survive, thrive and continue yelling the green agenda.
As the case with Ukraine, Taiwan, the Philippines and elsewhere its clear that incessant use of Democracy, Freedom, human rights have all become buzzwords for the weasels a.k.a. POLITICIANS. They lie to their people with a straight face without fear of any meaningful consequence. They listen to their children a.k.a. whining hyenas (public) rhetoric in terms of support for one party in a conflict without being bothered to make any personal sacrifice/skin in the game other than rhetorical diarrhea and empty words on social media as if such exercise equals the enormity of manpower, blood, and treasure to the cause they so ardently and fervently support.
I have come to believe that Europeans, Americans, Canadians frankly the entire Global North have gotten fat, cozy, lazy and have forgotten the enormous sacrifice and empire building that their forefathers/mothers have worked so hard to achieve. Words do not equate enforcement to any meaningful outcome. It's always leveraged and supported by the use of force/violence to make it stick.
Lethe
Captain
Taiwan claims that Nauru flipped to the PRC because Australia isn't paying them enough to detain folks who turn up on our shores seeking asylum.
Leaving the ethics of Australia paying the tiny, poor nation of Nauru to house asylum seekers for us to one side, paying $350m/yr to operate a detention facility, plus $6m year for every person actually detained there, seems like a pretty damn good deal for someone, just not the Australian taxpayer. Though it seems what we were really paying for all these years was Nauru's recognition of the ROC...
Leaving the ethics of Australia paying the tiny, poor nation of Nauru to house asylum seekers for us to one side, paying $350m/yr to operate a detention facility, plus $6m year for every person actually detained there, seems like a pretty damn good deal for someone, just not the Australian taxpayer. Though it seems what we were really paying for all these years was Nauru's recognition of the ROC...
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
So from what I read, that is 10 countries lost in the last 8 years of the DPP.
Home Depot, Lowes issued a joint statement below:
Why? China's getting stronger; ROC and its Western allies getting weaker. Balance tilts towards China every day. What needs to change?
Use how? It's currently being used forming regular flight and sailing incursions closer and closer to Taiwan's shores. Do you mean it's time to issue the ultimatum? To retake the island?
The "no point in having it if it's not gonna ba used" could have been said any day, 10 years, 20 years ago. But there is a point: the point is to continue grow to a level where your force is intimidating enough such that its value can be realized without being physically used, at a detriment, no matter how small, to China. And by that time, if it does need to be used, the detriment will indeed be very small. When China is signficantly and publically more powerful than the US, the Taiwan Issue will be much easier to solve.
There would be urgency on China's part if the power balance began to shift in the other direction. For now, the urgency is all theirs but they cannot use it. For China, the Taiwan Issue continues to serve as a driving force for Chinese people to work hard for our nation and our biggest national goal. I do believe that China's rise could downshift to a slower tempo caused by being content with one's achievements, once the Taiwan Issue is resolved in China's favor. Such a tempo would be much more appropriate for maintaining a lead rather than trying to catch up and close a gap. Even if ultimately China would comfortably retake Taiwan either way, it would be much better to surpass the US/West first before reintegrating the island because doing it in the other order is not only more dangerous but could cause China's final ascent to stall or at least take much longer.
China has done many things in that regard; what exactly would you like to see? To go further would risk a conflict taking place now when it would be better for China and worse for the West should the conflict take place later.
The entire West is not at peace because of fear of China. All conflicts that the West has started, military, technological, and economic, throwing the world into tumultuous times, are done to try to stop China's ascent. The US disrespected a virus, causing mass deaths in America, because it lost its head desperately trying to outdo the Chinese economy. For China to be concerned that the West may not respect it or take it seriously is like a 400 pound bodybuilder with muscular dysmorphia (psychological condition where one always perceives onself to be in poor physical shape despite actually being close to or even above elite).
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