PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

vincent · 2025-02-24T21:45:21-0500

AndrewS said:
As per Steve Hsu's recent podcast, the Chinese consensus is that China needs to help manage US decline and not get into a war.

Steve Hsu is an American patriot. His views on China should be taken with a grain of salt.

Moonscape · 2025-02-24T23:36:44-0500

FriedRiceNSpice said:
Why should China burden herself. China just needs to make China great and create a prosperous and safe society for all her citizens.

I do think this is an actual issue. The Chinese government would certainly prefer not to deal with the rest of the world's problems. (It's a mess!) But there's going to be an increasing amount of pressure from the rest of the world for China to play a more active role. It'll be a tough optimization problem for China -- how to appease the global south and keep the world stable-ish while spending the least amount of money and effort.

coolgod · 2025-02-24T23:47:09-0500

Moonscape said:
I do think this is an actual issue. The Chinese government would certainly prefer not to deal with the rest of the world's problems. (It's a mess!) But there's going to be an increasing amount of pressure from the rest of the world for China to play a more active role. It'll be a tough optimization problem for China -- how to appease the global south and keep the world stable-ish while spending the least amount of money and effort.

The Chinese have figured it out a long time ago. It's called 朝贡体系, sorry I mean community with a shared future for mankind

PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

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