Looks like Singapore is also joining Thailand:
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A nuclear war will realistically never be won by any side.
And in what way does the west have nuclear superiority anyways? I guess they have better undersea missiles. Yet China has better land based missiles and FOBS. China is also likely ahead in missile defense. Both sides have enough early warning that they will see an attack incoming.
Undersea missiles were king in the early and mid cold war because ranges of missiles were poor and early warning was weak. Nowadays, the only nuke which cannot be early warned against would be a FOBS. Heavy land icbm such as DF5, DF41 and Sarmat can reach globally from the nation of origin.
If America is truly desparate they will invade regardless of nukes. Nukes protect the mainland but just like if China invaded Okinawa, Guam or the rest of the Pacific Islands, US would not be able to justify nuclear ultimatum because the territory is not central enough, so can US invade islands in the SCS and Taiwan without invoking a realistic nuclear ultimatum.
The only nuclear option that would work is making the warhead delivery so fast and the missile defense so powerful, that China can do to America same as what they can do with India, I.e. strike them first out of nowhere, shoot down every return shot and then tank the sporadic hit on the chin using bunkers.
But the difference is that India possess 30 dangerous ICBMs while America has over 2000. The tech doesn't exist now and likely will not exist.
Bro all of this projection doesn't include what form of retaliation the Chinese are capable of.
What a stupid strategy they are employing, They're telegraphing their intention to the Chinese...lol letting the Chinese prepare while putting their powder dry. Right now the Collective West is in a mist of economic malaise and the Chinese are holding all the cards, the more sanction and anti Chinese policy they implement the stronger the Chinese had become because they put themselves in corner which restrict their action. One of those weapon is the quick internationalization of Yuan, like the Russian Oil for ruble example, they can demand Yuan payment instead of dollar and see the US collapse from high inflation and supply chain disruption. There is evidence that the Chinese use the Covid restriction as a way to export inflation back to the US. Two can play the game and the Chinese are retaliating in a very subtle way.
State Department threatens China with costs in case of its assistance to Russia in the field of security. According to the State Department, Russia has made such requests for security assistance from China.
State Department spokesman Ned Price spoke about the US promise to punish China if it is seen trying to help Russia in the field of security or evade sanctions. According to him, in this case, Beijing will bear the costs.
“We are following closely the decisions that the PRC takes in response to any Russian requests for security assistance. We know that Russia has been forced, as I’ve already said, to turn to other partners – Iran, the DPRK – for security assistance precisely because we are starving the Russian state of the inputs that it needs to prosecute its war against Ukraine most effectively. And again, that is putting it euphemistically. So we’re watching very closely. We’ve been very clear with the PRC, including in private, including when the two presidents met in Bali last November, about any costs that would befall the PRC should they decide to assist Russia in a systematic effort to evade U.S. sanctions or in the provision of security assistance that would then be used against the Ukrainian people in Ukraine. So we’re watching very closely” a US foreign policy spokesman said.
He stressed that the United States had previously made it clear to China what the consequences would be if Russia assisted in the systematic evasion of sanctions, as well as in the provision of any kind of security assistance that would help it conduct a special military operation (SVO) on Ukraine.
Earlier, Price noted that the United States opposes military-technical cooperation between Russia and Iran and is going to take all necessary measures to prevent its development.
State Department spokesman Ned Price spoke about the US promise to punish China if it is seen trying to help Russia in the field of security or evade sanctions. According to him, in this case, Beijing will bear the costs.
“We are following closely the decisions that the PRC takes in response to any Russian requests for security assistance. We know that Russia has been forced, as I’ve already said, to turn to other partners – Iran, the DPRK – for security assistance precisely because we are starving the Russian state of the inputs that it needs to prosecute its war against Ukraine most effectively. And again, that is putting it euphemistically. So we’re watching very closely. We’ve been very clear with the PRC, including in private, including when the two presidents met in Bali last November, about any costs that would befall the PRC should they decide to assist Russia in a systematic effort to evade U.S. sanctions or in the provision of security assistance that would then be used against the Ukrainian people in Ukraine. So we’re watching very closely” a US foreign policy spokesman said.
He stressed that the United States had previously made it clear to China what the consequences would be if Russia assisted in the systematic evasion of sanctions, as well as in the provision of any kind of security assistance that would help it conduct a special military operation (SVO) on Ukraine.
Earlier, Price noted that the United States opposes military-technical cooperation between Russia and Iran and is going to take all necessary measures to prevent its development.
Fair point re restocking... but where do EU/NATO find the money, and the industrial capacity to do it quickly?
Exactly what sanctions weapons are available to the Anglos considering that the US has already blanket banned all high end chips to China (really, the only real vulnerability of China up until Huawei's historic patent accouncement)? Are McDonalds, KFC and Hollywood really gonna walk out of China as they did in Russia and Belarus? The Anglos are stupidly racist, but greedy as well, and after the Meng incident, i dont think any US Elite nor the CIA want to risk being kidnapped by MSS operatives in response to another Meng incident.
FLG and the churches will be hit over this one.
Could be financial sanction via confiscation of T-Bill holdings/any other USD denominated bond. Happened to my Sber bank USD bonds, all gone.