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  Not a penny should go to funding mainland China’s war path from our pockets. Manufacturing is leaving the country and continue to do so. Capital and investment should follow as with our consumption of Made in China. 
  Mainland China depicts most of the world as an enemy. We must recognize and change our stance accordingly.
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  TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems in response to nearby operations by 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships that are part Beijing's strategy to unsettle and intimidate the self-governing island democracy.
  ADVERTISEMENT. China has sent warships, bombers, fighter jets and support aircraft into airspace near Taiwan on a near-daily basis, hoping to wear down the island's limited defense resources and undercut support for pro-independence President Tsai Ing-wen.
  Chinese fighter jets have also confronted military aircraft from the U.S. and allied nations over international airspace in the South China and East China seas, in what Beijing has described as dangerous and threatening maneuvers.
  
  
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  “China is always a force for regional and global peace and stability,” ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular briefing.
  
  The vast majority of China's neighbors would attest otherwise. >
  
  Yeah, Vietnam would HEAVILY disagree… >
  
  Publicly, they can’t be too antagonistic with China, but the South China Sea dispute and Vietnam’s growing ties to America seem to suggest a different view…. >
  
  Anti-Vietnam Propaganda?
  I thought that this was about the militarized islands that China keeps on building in Vietnamese territorial waters and Vietnam dredging in a bid to keep their own military presence in their own territorial waters strong enough to deter Chinese aggression in the region. I mean, China's doing that to FIVE DIFFERENT NATIONS to the point where various countries are trying to rename the South China Sea to things like the "West Philippine Sea" or the "Natuna Sea" to rhetorically bolster their claims while they are, also turning rocks and reefs into fortified bunkers against repeated and aggressive Chinese incursion. >
  
  Taiwan having a claim to something is largely irrelevant, they aren't the ones building air strips and missile bases in the area and demanding that others stay out. Besides, I wasn't just talking about the Spratlys. I was talking about the Scarborough Shoals, the Parcels, and the utterly nonsensical fight the CCP is picking with Indonesia.
  Ideally, all of this would have been solved if China would simply accept the judgement of an independent arbitration and the proper application of the United Nations Law of the Sea (a treaty that China is a signatory to) or if they didn't torpedo the ASAEN treaty negotiation that was intended to hash out all these territorial disputes when it became clear that literally no one (with the possible exception of Taiwan) takes the 9 Dash Line seriously. >
  
  Doesn’t Taiwan literally have a military installation on one of these islands >
  
  Coast guard stations may or may not be military. There's a dock, an air strip, and a couple of support buildings. It hasn't been operated by the Taiwanese marines since 2000. Coast Guard does more in the way of customs enforcement and rescue than fighting of other nations.
  Though the 2016 arbitration agreement means that they should probably abandon its claim to the island. The US does not recognize Taiwan's claim to the island, and still use the pre-1946 name and nationality markers for it in all official documents. >
  
  So same same, different... but still same >
  
  China making threats it can never back up. >
  
  And yet every 5 minute EU/Washington/Japan is busy "warning the world" that a invasion is imminent. 
  It is almost like schrodinger's China. Either posing a threat to world stability or a paper tiger meowing in the corner. >
  
  It's all the armchair generals on reddit that keep saying paper tiger,  whereas real generals regard them as legitimate. >
  
  There are so many soldiers in their army. Zerg rush. >
  
  My life for Aiur. >
  
  Unlike Ukraine, Taiwan has been preparing defense and helped by the US for decades.
  It'll be very expensive for China to take Taiwan if not impossible with the US fighting with them.
  Fuck Xi the Pooh! >
  
  China would need to cross the strait with about a million troops.  
  They have naval landing craft sufficient to move 30 thousand.
  China is bluffing. >
  
  Their plan is, allegedly, to use the landing craft to establish a beach head and then reinforce using civilian craft. >
  
  There are limited beaches that are easily defendable.  With nearby mountains to put fortified artillery in.
  It would be far more difficult than d day in ww2. >
  
  Yep.
  Their plan, allegedly, is to rapidly eliminate Taiwan’s air defense so paratroopers and aircraft can enable the landings. Even then, they still seem to be facing long odds on a landing. >
  
  Lol remember when Putin tried to do that exact same thing? Drop in some elite paratrooper commandos during the first day in a blitz to eliminate Big Z and the Ukrainian government. Didnt work out great.
  And doesn't Taiwan have all of our current gen, cutting-edge military hardware ready and waiting? Sounds like a fools errand. I also think it's foolish that they think it would go anything like Ukraine, in that the US would only engage in a proxy war by sending supplies and weapons. PRETTY sure that it would result in the US declaring all out war. Hopefully they aren't this fucking dumb >
  
  I don't think all out war is really possible between 2 nuclear powers. Has it ever happened? >
  
  It will happen eventually. The future is grim. >
  
  It's fine. There's enough nukes to knock out humanity but not life on earth. Eventually something from earth will gain enough intelligence to colonize outside our planet. >
  
  Future species will adapt to an irradiated earth. We won’t be part of that future though. >
  
  Fuck the CCP! >
  
  No one's fucking China in this thread? That's progress. Plenty of people here are still trying to justify China = CCP >
  
  
  Plenty of people here are still trying to justify China = CCP
  
  Anyone who's been on Reddit knows that Redditors hate the Chinese people as much as they hate the Chinese government. Just go into any thread about random a Chinese person doing something random and it's all hate comments and various comments about the government. >
  
  Fuck the CCP, and anybody who supports it willingly >
  
  So why are you on reddit, a CCP-funded company? I'll wait for you to delete your reddit account. >
  
  You >
  
  "My argument is so shitty I have to sugarcoat it with colorful pictures."
  You >
  
  Well your argument seems to be "your opinion criticizing [thing] is invalid unless you have sworn an oath to never interact with [thing] or anything else connected to [thing] in any way whatsoever."
  This is an utterly absurd, asinine argument if you spend more than 2 seconds thinking about it. The interconnected nature of modern society makes it practically impossible to swear off all interaction for any [thing], meaning if your argument were taken to it's logical conclusion, nobody would have any standing to say any [thing] should be improved. Yet the argument has been so overused by people who think they're clever and/or are not arguing in good faith, that someone made a comic with pretty pictures to help "clever" people like you realize how comically absurd their argument is. >
  
  Reddit is by no means a necessity. You can dump it any second. It's too funny to watch people bash an entity while contributing to it at the same time. The hypocrisy here is just too strong and funny. >
  
  I'm guessing China is just trying to goad Taiwan in taking the first shot so that China can retaliate and have an excuse to invade Taiwan.