This Tweet gave me instant panic attack for a moment when I saw it for the first time.
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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Guancha just released a video on natural sand export ban to Taiwan
Basically confirms what I said earlier: China banned natural sand exports in 2006 to protect environment, Taiwanese business community begged China to make an exception for Taiwan and China did.
Some additional info:
1. Taiwan imports around 7% of the sand it uses.
2. About 8% of Taiwanese sand import is natural sand.
3. Over 90% of Taiwan's imported natural sand comes from mainland.
4. Majority of mainland's sand export to Taiwan is artificial sand.
Basically confirms what I said earlier: China banned natural sand exports in 2006 to protect environment, Taiwanese business community begged China to make an exception for Taiwan and China did.
Some additional info:
1. Taiwan imports around 7% of the sand it uses.
2. About 8% of Taiwanese sand import is natural sand.
3. Over 90% of Taiwan's imported natural sand comes from mainland.
4. Majority of mainland's sand export to Taiwan is artificial sand.
How about whoever votes in favor of unification gets to enter a lottery for 1 billion RMB. Could sway a surprising amount of people, just saying.
Translation: something hit the water about 2 inches past the median line into the Tiawan side of the strait
Nice try though Spread out over 20 years is doable, but there'd be nasty riots from mainland seniors, at least, for such a dole out.
I don't think that works nearly as well. Most people would prefer the certainty of a large sum of money than the small chance of winning a gigantic amount. In economics and finance, we call that preference the risk premium.
Not sure about Taiwan but should work for Mongolia, their population is tiny and they are fairly poor. Offer each household $100,000 one time payment to agree to annexation. Number of households is ~1 million, one time cost of $100 billion (Chinese GDP is now >$20 trillion and Chinese net national worth is >$100 trillion). Will pay itself back very quickly anyway.
Money better spend would be just bribe the ROC army to have a coup, and get it over with damn quick. Given bunch of old ROC retired generals are openly calling for reunification.
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