Where's the Chad Xi emote? :deng-smile:
https://i.redd.it/a772pa9ssg881.png
“Provocative timing” like two days ago an American destroyer sailed up the straight in the same fashion this is pretty standard for China and America to do
A source with direct knowledge of the matter, who was not authorised to speak to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity,
:doubt:
Told Reuters the carrier Shandong sailed close to the Taiwan-controlled island of Kinmen, which sits directly opposite the Chinese city of Xiamen
Around 10:30 a.m. the CV-17 appeared around 30 nautical miles to the southwest of Kinmen, and was photographed by a passenger on a civilian flight," the source said, referring to the Shandong's official service number
Let's check the map
https://www.google.com/maps/search/kinmen/@24.4712622,118.5626342,10z
30 nautical miles to the Southwest.... Looks like a Chinese carrier was spotted near the coast of China. How provocative!
The Kinmen islands are a very strange place considering their geographic position
Interestingly, China doesn't even consider them part of Taiwan (the province). They're part of Fujian, the mainland province right next door.
Kinmen is where the Nationalists stopped the Communists. China tried to invade, but their invasion force wasn't a fleet of battleships and landing craft like at Normandy it was...every fishing boat for 100 miles up and down the coast. Just about when they were going to land, a Nationalist patrol set off one of their own land mines, causing all of the beach guards to send up flares, spotting the invasion "fleet". Every pillbox opened up and started wreaking havoc.
Many troops still reached shore, however. An M3 Stuart light tank, stuck in the sand the day before, was still on the beach. The crew got it moving but soon ran out of ammunition. As the invaders had no anti-tank weapons, the tank simply drove up and down the beach GTA-style, running over every soldier in its path. It earned the title "Bear of Kinmen" for its service and you can still see it today if you visit the island (like I did).
A Nationalist landing ship wasn't supposed to be on Kinmen, but had gotten a delay in its return to Taiwan by radioing in to base claiming it had a broken engine. The real reason was because it was illegally loading up with smuggled coconut oil. It pulled a homer by being there with its minimal guns which were still better than the fishing boats' zero guns. It sank dozens of them and prevented a second wave of invaders from being ferried from the mainland, which would probably have won the battle.
Lmao this is like when Western media runs a headline about a Chinese plane "violating Taiwan airspace." Then you read the body and it wasn't airspace, it was the Air Defence ID Zone. Then you look up a map of the ADIZ and a huge chunk of it covers Southern China.
The US literally has a naval base and a prison camp on the territory of a country we've been openly hostile to for 60 years.
The Chinese MFA spokesperson was asked why the carrier sailed through the “sensitive area” that is the Taiwan Strait at such a sensitive time.
The spokesperson responded: “This is a routine maneuver. And the Taiwan Strait is not sensitive — YOU are the one being sensitive here.”
Man I want to get paid for berating westoids and libs too
Getting a job as a Chinese spokesperson where I just tell world leaders "triggered much?"
"A spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appeared to 'dab' on the Secretary of State."
It seems our superiority has led to some controversy :chairman-moa:
When Amerikkka does it it's a "freedom of navigation exercise."
Just so we're clear, if China ever actually wanted to they could squish Taiwan over night, right? This is a mouse roaring at lions?
it would be no match militarily, but it would bring chaos globally, think of Russia-Ukraine on steroids. China's path is still stable peaceful development, it did save the global economy in 2008 after all.
Why do I have the feeling this is a completely normal non event? Libs seem obsessed with making parallels between Ukraine and Taiwan that just aren't there. In 30 years Tiwan will be so enmeshed in the Chinese economy and politics it will not even matter anymore if they are nominally independent. Why would China want to fuck that up by starting a war? Especially one that would massively fuck up their domestic economic development agenda.
Honestly the West can't really, nor wants to, escape form the mindset of subjugation via brute military force (not to say China is not militarily prepared for a conflict that would involve Taiwan but that is not their priority). China can wait as long as they need to economically and politically encircle Taiwan and given the collapse of the West eventually Taiwan will realize it would benefit them to return into China's fold on their own terms instead of the death pact that the West would have them suffer. Smart vassal states to the US should be paying attention to how the Ukraine is being used as a chew toy currently between Russia and NATO/US and know such a fate could befall their own country.
Smart vassal states to the US should be paying attention to how the Ukraine is being used as a chew to
:brak: Looks like they are! https://hexbear.net/post/181745
this is just the wet version of "China flies jets in Taiwans air zone (that extends over mainland China )"
Like half the pawns are gone and both white and black only have 1 or 2 pieces developed. Wtf.
You don't need to care about pawn structure if you don't have pawns.
There are pawns on both "back" ranks, indicating both sides have actually crossed the board and promoted to pawns.
This is where "30 km southwest of Kinmen" is.
apparently it's too provocative for China to have a ship there, but not for America to have an Arleigh Burke class Destroyer "Shadowing" a Chinese ship right in it's home waters.
remembering the last western media meltdown about chinese provocation with flight paths last year and how they meant china was imminently about to invade taiwan. here are the paths, from official taiwan ministry of defense twitter
the big black rectangle is the taiwanese air defense id zone (not taiwanese airspace) that china was "guilty" of breaching, a zone incidentally created by the united states after wwii. sharp-eyed readers will note the interesting quirk that it also covers an area of the chinese mainland about 3x the size of taiwan itself
the flight paths are clearly very intentional as a "fuck you your ridiculous air defense zone is bullshit" but theyre also nowhere fucking near taiwan itself, while the western media would have you believe they were flying directly over taipei
You may think it is too sensitive. What is sensitive is you, not the Taiwan Strait,"
Where’s the Chad Xi emote?
echoing this
we needed this years agoChess game
PRC is black
RoC is white
Thank you Reuters, very :lmayo: .
