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2022-10-17 China-Japan-Koreas

Haley: China ‘Will Stop at Nothing to Take Taiwan'

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-17 06:19|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Lies, lies, lies.

Shut the fuck up, you neocon warmongering piece of shit.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-10-17 08:20|| 2022-10-17 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 What lies, Spike the Hairy6811?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-17 08:49|| 2022-10-17 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 This is complete bullshit: “China will impose its reign on the world“

Posted by Nate B Forrest 2022-10-17 09:59|| 2022-10-17 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 China will impose its reign on the world

Oh it wants to. So far it has used soft power and money very effectively such as the belt and road initiative and the Confucius institutes in the US.

Fortunately those are starting to fail as other nations and the CCP are becoming more hostile to each other.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-17 10:21|| 2022-10-17 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone should ask Xi to detail his claim for Taiwan.

China conquered Formosa but then lost it. Is that the basis of their claim? Or is the basis based on Chinese 'rebels' conquered Formosa and renamed it. That somehow grants the claim to the PRC? How does that work? Cite your sources.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-10-17 10:48|| 2022-10-17 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 China has only gotten as far as it did because the leaderships of our 'democracies' are corrupt, sell-outs and cowards. And they appoint and elevate cowards and jackasses who agree with them to higher strategic roles. We have emasculated our militaries with unreasonable conventions and ROEs and have held ourselves up to standards while others have not. And we have lost. Lost to shitkickers and dungbeetles.

In reality, China is a putz. It is nothing. You could break it in lesser time than it took to break Iraq. Reduce them to sniveling weasels crying about human rights and how the imperialists have always been mean to them.

They will not make a move on Taiwan now. They have seen what that kind of moves gets you. No, they will wait for and invest in the total Zimbabwification of America, and the weakening of the western bloc. Even at this place, it should take a decade or two. They will not risk confrontation right now. All their maneuvers will be to bully Taiwan and try and make a show of force in the region.

If anyone. Anyone so much as pings a 5cm shot off one of their floaters, they'll run rattling their sabre.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-17 10:57|| 2022-10-17 10:57|| Front Page Top

#7 *at this pace.

Goddamn android google doohickey second guessing its master...

Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-17 10:59|| 2022-10-17 10:59|| Front Page Top

#8 I do read that Xi is determined to reinstall Marxism-Leninism and essentially go back to Mao. Which is the surest path I know to poverty and backwardness.

And so I wonder if they will even have the capability to fulfill all their ambitions?

Posted by Tom 2022-10-17 11:04|| 2022-10-17 11:04|| Front Page Top

#9 China couldn't do squat if globalists in our government and major corporations didn't enable them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-17 12:08|| 2022-10-17 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 No, they will wait for and invest in the total Zimbabwification of America, and the weakening of the western bloc.

Here is the real problem.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-17 12:13|| 2022-10-17 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11

Ref #9: China couldn't do squat if globalists in our government and major corporations didn't enable them.

Exactly correct.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-17 12:34|| 2022-10-17 12:34|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree with the last few comments. Two destroyers parked by India blockading oil would end China. That is how vulnerable they are and they are completely dependent on the globalized system the Americans oversaw. They depend on energy, food and technology to be imported and the greed of politicians and tech companies to keep feeding them foreign currency. All that goes away and the Chinese lose the lights and factories as most stop working will lose 500 million people to starvation in 12 months.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-17 12:53|| 2022-10-17 12:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Give Nikki a dime and tell her to call her parents and tell them that she will never be president.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-10-17 12:56|| 2022-10-17 12:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Say, what's the official position of the US government? Is there one China, or two?

I'll give you a hint: the policy was formed by Nixon 50 years ago and the US government has constantly reaffirmed it ever since.

So yeah, this is a vicious pack of warmongering lies. Well maybe if China does impose "its reign on the world" (which it has shown no sign of doing) there will be fewer wars. Because that's all the US government has done it ITS "reign on the world". As in, raining destruction down.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-10-17 13:46|| 2022-10-17 13:46|| Front Page Top

#15 If China Ran The World
book review in Claremont Review of Books

China is not a nation-state but an empire with seven major languages and 300 minor ones, where only one citizen in ten speaks fluent Mandarin. The existential fear of every Chinese dynasty is that one rebel province will set a precedent for others, leading to fracture along ethnic and geographical lines, as occurred so often in China’s tragic past. Xi Jinping told President Barack Obama at the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit: “China is a land and a people. Sometimes the population increases by ten percent, sometimes it falls by ten percent. But China’s land is sacred and inviolable and there is nothing we will not do to defend it.”

China insists on sovereignty over Taiwan not because the island has a strategic utility, nor because it wants to suppress its democratic system, but because the integrity of China’s territory is an existential question for the Chinese state.

…All the United States military’s war games involving a mainland assault on Taiwan have ended in American defeat. China is building toward 100,000 marines and mechanized infantry poised to invade the island, more than 50 submarines, and a formidable land-to-sea missile capability that could probably destroy most American surface ships operating close to China’s coast. As the editors of the Chinese official English-language newspaper Global Times wrote on July 28, 2021:

“The US Navy’s advantage in overwater power will surely persist for some time. China must not only catch up with the US, but also strengthen its land-based missile forces that can strike large US battleships in the South China Sea in a war. We can massively expand this force so that if the US provokes a military confrontation in the South China Sea, all of its large ships there will be targeted by land-based missiles at the same time.“

Michèle Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration, argued in Foreign Affairs last year that deterring China requires the U.S. to possess “the capability to credibly threaten to sink all of China’s military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships in the South China Sea within 72 hours.” The clear counterpart to such a force, however, would be China’s credible capability to eliminate U.S. forces in the South China Sea and nearby military facilities even faster, thereby deterring American military initiatives and responses.

It is doubtful that Taiwan could be defended against a Chinese attack by conventional means, and the use of nuclear weapons would put American cities at risk of Chinese retaliation.

Posted by Nate B Forrest 2022-10-17 14:08|| 2022-10-17 14:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Upcoming is the ousting of Murkey from the senate. When Mitt is ousted and Nikki is an embarrassment in the 2024 nomination process, it will be more "proof" that the GOP is dead and that America is "ungovernable." To some people, anyway...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-17 14:25|| 2022-10-17 14:25|| Front Page Top

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