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Helius

Helius

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Time to put the proposals of build bridges directly connecting Kinmen Islands with Xiamen, and Matsu Islands with Fuzhou back on the table.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1597943143802245120

In case of war between the PRC and Taiwan separatist forces, the Kinmen and Matsu Islands would never last under fierce PLA bombardment. Any resistance attempt on those islands are certain to be futile anyways.

If those bridges are built and PLAGF tanks suddenly rolled over those bridges and land on the islands (with or without launching AR against Taiwan itself), then so be it.

However, strict immigration and custom checks should be enacted at the border crossings between Kinmen and Matsu Islands with mainland China to stem and prevent infiltrations of Taiwan-based separatist agents and alphabet soup organizations' personnel into mainland China, alongside dangerous goods and items which these agents and personnel would bring.
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Those islands are already KMT aligned, and the populations have strong cultural and familial ties to the mainland. It is very doubtful they would be targets in the event of AR.

China doesn't need the islands to take Taiwan. They hold little to no strategic value, and are in fact counter-productive to attack/occupy at the expense of antagonising the locals and the KMT by extension.

If the PLA were to attack, they'd go for Taiwan proper, directly.
 
baykalov

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Financial Times: EU threatens Elon Musk with complete ban on Twitter unless the platform sticks to strict rules and polices content.

Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, made the threat during a video meeting with Musk on Wednesday, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Musk was warned that unless Twitter adhere to a checklist of rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, and could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law.

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton has told Musk he must adhere to a checklist of rules including
- ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users
- pursuing disinfo “aggressively”
- agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of Twitter

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1598033837539610624

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1598045674397761536
 
FriedButter

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Phead128 said:
Can someone explain how US Congress can force a deal upon railroad unions and make striking illegal and arrest protesters? Is it because it's somehow a national security industry?
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Railway Labor Act of 1926. Basically to prevent disruptions to interstate commerce. The last time congress intervened was in 1992 and they have done it 18 times since 1926.
 
sheogorath

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Phead128 said:
Can someone explain how US Congress can force a deal upon railroad unions and make striking illegal and arrest protesters? Is it because it's somehow a national security industry?
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Not sure about the intricacies of it all, but is not unheard off, regardless of how much americans like to brag about their freedom

Miners strike, ended up in a battle where the US Army participated including the threat of use of bombers.
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Reagan doing Reagan things, around 22.000 striking ATC workers were fired. Apparently since 1955 it is illegal for public workers to strike.
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