China should use lawfare, sanctions and other covert means to disrupt and destabilise the enemy. Covert operations can do significant damage including psychological. China has yet to use these tools against Taiwan separatists. China need to make life tough as possible for all Taiwan separatists. Just issuing statements won’t deter. Taiwan separatists are emboldened by China’s timid responses with each provocative step.
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China should use lawfare, sanctions and other covert means to disrupt and destabilise the enemy. Covert operations can do significant damage including psychological. China has yet to use these tools against Taiwan separatists. China need to make life tough as possible for all Taiwan separatists. Just issuing statements won’t deter. Taiwan separatists are emboldened by China’s timid responses with each provocative step.
Wouldn't that cause a bit of concern in Moscow since Tajikistan has traditionally been its backyard? Not sure if Xi consulted Putin first.
The Five Eyes are a single political and security entity in all but name. A true anglo empire.
Yup... UK storing its government spy top secret data on Amazon (US origin company) servers... but apparently Huawei is the national security threat....
Goes to show the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tesla, SpaceX are all essentially US government long arm subsidaries all but in name
Its now April 14th 11:19 pm for the USS Titanic
A has revealed some interesting information: recall a few month ago when US had that C-17 suddenly land in Taiwan. The stuff it was carrying was in fact only secondary to its mission. The primary purpose was an exercise in pulling AIT out of Taiwan in case of emergency. They didn't move all of AIT for this of course, just a subset of the people and subset of the stuff they had to carry.
Upon being notified that this exercise was going to happen, DPP asked the Americans to be part of this exercise, particularly they would like Ms Tsai to also board the plane during the exercise. The Americans told them no, if they wanted to run similar exercise they should do their own.
So what the Taiwanese government did was to drive Tsai and entourage to just outside the wire fence while the AIT pull out exercise was running and said good enough.
Given what happened in Kabul not even 2 month ago, I would think it would be prudent for them to start stocking up on parachutes.
Upon being notified that this exercise was going to happen, DPP asked the Americans to be part of this exercise, particularly they would like Ms Tsai to also board the plane during the exercise. The Americans told them no, if they wanted to run similar exercise they should do their own.
So what the Taiwanese government did was to drive Tsai and entourage to just outside the wire fence while the AIT pull out exercise was running and said good enough.
Given what happened in Kabul not even 2 month ago, I would think it would be prudent for them to start stocking up on parachutes.
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Practice clinging to the wheel well also and running after the plane also. LOL.
The base has been operated for 5 years already dude. You sure you were in the military as you said you were? You come off like a foreigner to me than you're Chinese and there's nothing wrong with it, but your comments are kind of strange tbh.
Well I did not serve in PAP (which would last three years). I wanted to join the military (PLA, not PAP), but my parents were against it. I was there for my mandatory college entrance military training. As with foreign experience, I studies for a year in London and worked for another year. During that time, I dated and stayed with a well-learned German student for more than a year. I also traveled and stayed in with some friends and relative in the States for more than a month (got the Obama-era 10 year visa available for Chinese). Those experience more or less had some impact on me. I honestly like Europe (especially Germany and Austria) and UK way more than North America. The infrastructure deficit in North America drove me nuts lol...and it was expensive to rent a car everywhere you go.
I honestly don't know about how many years this base in Tajikistan has been operating. Still, my assumptions has been that since Moscow considers Central Countries as its own backyard, it would not tolerate any intrusions by other great powers, be it the US or China. Also, I honestly don't think the Russians are that close for a partner for China. For example, during the 2020 Galwan Valley incident, Russian arms sales to India actually increased. Moscow also sold 6 kilo class subs to Vietnam during the height of the South China Sea tensions from 2010 to 2014. In fact, before the Su-35 and S-400 sales to China, India got far more advanced weapons platforms from Russia than China did. In other words, Russia may back China during the latter's confrontation with the US, but as soon as India and Vietnam join the fray, Moscow would simply become a neutral arms dealer (like China did during the Iran-Iraq War). Finally, if you look at how Russian police treated Chinese citizens in Moscow during the 2020 COVID outbreak, it was horrendous. Ultimately, the Russians still see themselves as part of the Western civilization. Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese were considered the cultural and religious "others."
Ultimately, the reason why Moscow and Beijing are close is because both need to balance against an increasingly unpredictable USA. Beyond this, however, Moscow has its own calculations and hedges against Beijing's rising power.
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Xi doesn't need to consult Putin on things that don't concern him. Being a border country Tajikistan is actually Chinas backyard so as to speak (while Russia is 1000 miles away). Now i know Putin still has fetishes of getting all former USSR republics under his influence one way or another but that will remain a wet dream of his.