Taiwan is not Ukraine: Stop linking their fates
Some of the issues, that are not in article:<p>1. Taiwan was not part of neither communist China or Chinese Republic, so neither of them have claim on this territory.<p>2. Up till 1945 Formosa was was territory of Japan. It can be compared to Prussia, that from 1945 is currently occupied by Russia. After 1945 US still has all the rights to decide status of Formosa.<p>3. It could have been independet Formosa, but apparently for political reasons US 75 years ago decided to let Chinese take over this territory and oppress natives of this island and deny dream of native Formosians to be free and independent and erase history of these people by both Japanese and also Chinese and US has taken part in another deadly sin of theirs - once again in erasing natives.<p><i>Both Russia and Ukraine are new countries, that arised from USSR.<p></i> US(along with Russia) has signed agreement about guaranteeing territorial integrity of Ukraine. It apparently meant nothing for Russia, but with this agreement US has signed a trap, because apparently that also means, that US signed treaties are not worth anything...<p>* There has been talks, that Ukraine is corrupt country, but apparently it is ok for US goverment officials(and relatives) to deal with corrupt countries for financial gains, because from ancient Roman times &quot;money does not stink&quot;. This involvement in corruptions is nothing new - Hillary Clinton in similar fashion(when dealing with Western Sahara) destroyed mining industry in US, so these things are coming full cycle and affects US, too.<p>* For the same reasons it is ok for Western companies to invest in corruptive countries for profit, that is shared with local thieves, that are robbing their own people.<p>There are no similarities between Taiwan and Ukraine, however war in Ukraine is linked to Taiwan and China will be watching how the things are going to progress there. So, this is a test trial for US - what it is going to do about this? Russia has become dog of China and China is not commanding Russia(yet), but Russia acts as a dog, that likes to impress owner, when rattling chain and barking on neighbour.<p>China might attack Taiwan, while Russia is attacking Ukraine. Despite what author is writing, attack of Russia on Ukraine is a dire warning to all of Eastern Europe and stirs up 100 years old memories, that behaviour of Russia is unpredictable and who knows who will be next. 
Russia is still pushing borders of what is acceptable to them and so far Europe and US has not stopped them. Btw, some of Scandinavian countries are not in NATO, so essentially they are a free snack for next aggression after Ukraine, before final real escalation with NATO.<p>The issue with China attacking Taiwan is quite opposite - China might be forced to attack Taiwan, to try to end supremacy of US, just like Japan was forced to attack US. Talk about economic reasons is from previous century. Changes in economy are happening all the time - it is not constant state- if for whatever reasons US economy becomes weak, US does not allow China access to it, most of US owned factories are relocated outside of China - does it really makes sense to claim, that China still won&#x27;t risk breaking economic contacts with US, because uh - oh... they have economic ties, if suddenly there are none anymore?<p>Russian patriotism nowadays is about war - it seems, that Chinese have similar mindset. And this is a very big question - why chinese also have this mindset, that Russians have? Whom are they going to attack?(China also have claims on Russian territories).  No idea, why Chinese lost cool and started to argue with US and started to use military talk, as it was too early, unless we know nothing about Chinese. There are political talks and then there is a street talk and it knows more, than any analytical mind.<p>It does not matter - those people are ready for war - it all depends if leaders of China decides if it is time to attack. Collective Putin thinks, that attacking Ukraine is their right and in their minds they are already prepared to invade Ukraine and the only question is if it is total invasion of Ukraine(just like finalized integration of Belarus into Russia), or only biggest part of it(just like USSR initially did not had western Ukraine). So, it all depends on how successfully Ukraine will defend itself and what US gonna do. Because, frankly - US has been sh!t so far and it does not help, that European powers are even worse and they have made Russia as it is, because they were so stupid, that they thought that criminals can become business men and become civilized.