A Chinese aircraft carrier sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Friday, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said, just hours before the Chinese and U.S. presidents were due to talk.
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.
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.
: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 )"