I don't understand why you view TikTok as some extension of "China" as opposed to its own private company with its own interests. The West is a significant market for TikTok, so it is enacting policies that maintains that revenue source. It's not TikTok's fault that Russia is not rich or powerful enough to sway TikTok's business interests.
PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency
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TikTok definitely acts more like a typical Western app than X, it also suspended an account associated with People's Daily previously, and seems to have shadow banned it despite reactivating it, and labels it "China state-controlled media" and don't do the same thing with any other Western media accounts.
typical!!
Thats a very naive way of looking at things, the ability to control, curate and influence the news feed of 2/3 of all Americans is far, far more powerful than influencing the handful of viewers People's Daily or Sputnik have in the west.
The most effective propaganda are "free press", for both means of "free"
Are the Taiwan Strait Crisis considered wars? They don't seem be counted the same way as say Korea or India in 1962.
More like "campaigns", "battles" or "maneuvers" within the larger framework of the ongoing Chinese civil war.
Like the ones in Myanmar has with Shan state for example.
We know that the Pentagon is attempting to incorporate tactical nukes into their strategy against China, but what about their use of depleted uranium munitions? Depleted uranium will similarly poison the environment and affect Chinese civilians both on the mainland as well as Taiwan. Personally, I would view this as no less than a dirty bomb and radiological attack which requires counter value force ie a nuke on New York.
Little to none will land on China mainland.
Also little on Taiwan, but might have some consequences.
Unless China finishes an ABM great wall that can shoot down most of US' second strike, it is kinda pointless to consider using nukes for either side, because it will just cause MAD.
If US uses poisonous weapons, they must still launch them from somewhere, unless they're all on ships. In the case of foreign aggression, China will fight back with unrestricted warfare anyways.
What will affect people more, some DU which 100 000s of US soldiers play around with and only end up with minor damages, or when Beijing punches in an aggressor country's IADS and then floods as many bombs as all the factories in China can make on them? Outrage over DU use is an useful marketing tool to justify PLA to fight without constraints, but it's not really a legit environmental concern.
A more legit concern is what will happen with the many US SSNs that will end up sunk if US uses them in an offensive. Those can actually cause environment damage.
Like what star wars plan of us ?? This all abm interceptor thing sound great but has no real use in in military cuz it is unproven and experience let me tell you something 100 billion dollars for like 66 gbi interceptor which has low sucess rate do you think it is good to build such abm wall without great pain to a nation?