Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

[Godstar23]

Imperial Japan thought Americans were weak with their Hollywood and hedonism. And Japan arguably had the best equipment and best trained naval pilots during WWII, certainly better than America during the initial stages of the war.

America’s strength lies in its vast resources. It has the best piece of real estate on the planet with only 350 million people. The Native Americans took good care of this land. People here get to live in 3000 - 4000 sqf houses, drive 2-3 cars per family. You don't see that in Europe or anywhere else.

...are those 2-3 cars per family built in America? How much of that well cared for land is still arable, or will be in ten years time? America is not ready for a deglobalized world.

 

[luosifen]

Someone here posted about a blood donation drive starting in Fujian, is there an official source for this?

 

[escobar]

China should have picked a more calm and political way to handle those things than rilling up the own population

In all this mess the only thing that amazes me is this : in a population of over a billion CN gov did not find some dudes who can do proper and effective PR to handle this kind of situation. I have said it in the past: incompetence.

 

[GodRektsNoobs]

Guys, have you ever considered that PLA hasn't finished mobilizing yet? Most PLAN vessels are still a day or more away from Taiwan, and equipment are still piled up at Xiamen waiting to be loaded up. There is no way that PLA could take Taiwan within 48-72 hours from cold start, and I do not know why China hadn't mobilized sooner. It's been more than a week since 71st (or 73rd?) Army Group began mobilizing from Shandong. Honestly, I too am suprised that full mobilization hasn't been completed yet.

 

[Michaelsinodef]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1554496696511614977

 

[Equation]

Imperial Japan thought Americans were weak with their Hollywood and hedonism. And Japan arguably had the best equipment and best trained naval pilots during WWII, certainly better than America during the initial stages of the war.

America’s strength lies in its vast resources. It has the best piece of real estate on the planet with only 350 million people. The Native Americans took good care of this land. People here get to live in 3000 - 4000 sqf houses, drive 2-3 cars per family. You don't see that in Europe or anywhere else.

Before or after the white settlers nearly wiped out the Native Americans? American have more tent cities homeless people than in Europe or China.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Sometimes I ask myself, is the world really ending soon, or am I spending too much time on SDF?

Seems like there was more drama here than in the Straits. Not gonna lie, the Chinese response was disappointing, but I remember also being disappointed in the inaction during the HK riots.

Either the world ends or the forum will, so you don’t have much to worry about either way.

 

[emblem21]

True, but the China hating trolls will eat this moment up like they won over China.

If this somehow will reverse decades of bad economic policy and some how make the price of petrol in the USA go down, well this isn’t a very good way to go about it. Interesting that the response time being this quick meaning that China does have the ability to actual blow up her aircraft and cause extreme damage to Taiwan with her there but maybe China letting her get away with this one action could easily be part of a plan to see if the USA use this as a distraction from their own problems and how much it will help since I don’t see how this will help inflation in anyway. One small win doesn’t mean the USA has won in any way in the grand scheme of things as all this will do is now is that China must act to boost military funding and also dedollarise as fast has humanly possible so that the inflation in the USA will rise like no tomorrow. Her arriving also does nothing to mask the problems in Ukraine or the EU. Think of this as a continuation of the HK riots and how despite the support of the west that everything will ultimately end the same way

 

[dasCKD]

In all this mess the only thing that amazes me is this : in a population of over a billion CN gov did not find some dudes who can do proper and effective PR to handle this kind of situation. I have said it in the past: incompetence.

I mean, that does appear to be a thing with the PRC. For all of the things they do very competently and effectively, like developing technology and managing their country, they seem to be really, really bad at PR. It certainly is that way from the outwards-facing arms of the Chinese state-funded press, and it appears to also be an issue with the domestic press.

If they didn't intend to interdict the plane, the messaging to the Chinese populous should have been much more clear. Now they have a population that had been hyped up for war, at least if the internet is any indication, and now they're left without a place to place their frustrations.

 

[wang chilin]

The game theory typically suggests that the potential cost to yourself is a much greater determinant of whether you call the bluff than whether you believe your adversary is genuine about it. The strategic gains from the reward would have to overwhelm, or at least mitigate substantially, the cost of the bluff in order to make calling the bluff likely. I think that this sort of bluffing strategy with nuclear arsenals has worked quite a lot more than some policymakers and historians have cared to admit. But it’s hard to account for the actions that threats issued through your nuclear deterrence prevent.

If China invented Go, India Chess, then USA is known for Texas Hold 'Em poker. USA is the big stack at the table, China the challenger, but you don't bluff the big stack unless you go all in - even then it's you that's all in. Gotta hold 'em or fold 'em. Bad bluff and it was called.