There has been several mentios of british MP's now planing official trips to Taiwan. As expected, the visits will only escalate unless China takes actions one way or another.
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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This is ineffective because the average person doesn't hear about it. Something that only the rulers know is not as effective as something that both average person and rulers know.
If mainstream media refuses to cover this or relegates it to tiny specialist news, the end result is, US won a huge propaganda victory with no response, which leads to economic gain and puts up new military roadblocks.
Who and where said this?
There's no benefit in dick measuring by holding captive a decrepit ghoul. If Pelosi is there, it makes America involved, its better for America not to be involved, as the chances of escalation is lower.
America is spitting in China's face by sending their represantants to talk with rebels, instead of swatting the spit out of the air, China can opt to just spit back in America's face by militarily changing the status quo of the straits, hours after Pelosi leaves, showing the world that while she visited, the visit was utterly useless in preventing PLA control of the area.
One of the islands is the way to go. Exercises are just tours in the end with no real gains, its like US with their freedom of navigation where they sail around and smash their submarines into rocks while PLA plays tennis on the islands.
Use this opportunity to make some concrete gains, there are enough assets mobilized to manage any military escalation.
Use this opportunity to make some concrete gains, there are enough assets mobilized to manage any military escalation.
This raises an interesting question: China would also like to have extensive training for targets beyond Taiwan throughout the first and second island chains for the same reason. Would it be realistic to expect exercises like this near Guam in the future?
Are you gonna post your analysis?
Hong Kong 2019 was also an embarrassment. China had issued plenty of serious threats back then, too.
Remember when the PLA/Armed Police were amassing in Shenzhen that borders HK during the riots? What came out of that little manoeuvre? Did the mainland declare martial law on the city like everybody was clamouring for?
Look at how HK got cleaned up since then, and the city now firmly in China's grasp, all of that without a single mainland boot stepping even an inch into HK like Trump and Pompeo dared China to do. Was China a paper tiger then?
If there's one thing the Chinese government has demonstrated time and again, particularly the current government, no need to even look at past ones, is that their modus to crisis management has consistently been measured, calculated and rational, and not placate to the whims of emotionally-charged voices within and without.
Acting out of embarrassment only serves to embarrass oneself even more. Some peeps on here really need to chillax, check their urge for instant gratification and observe what China does in the coming weeks and months. China WILL do something, that much is an absolute certainty, and whatever transpires from it will just as certainly lead to permanent change in state of affairs that would further strengthen China's interests and that of the Chinese people.
If Xi stays or not its for the people to decide after the current political sessions finish.
Performance in this crisis is of course important, but it has barely started yet, so we will evaluate how China, and by extension, Xi and his cabinet responds as things go on.
This is basically the gist of it, although it is not an invasion, just reinforcing Taiwan island against foreign aggression. But I don't believe the PLA will go as far as to destroy all the ROC at once. Instead, it will only be a few islands, which will help China fortify the straits in the long term.
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