• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Trump has only set a precedent for China. If the rest of the west doesn’t do shit about this, which they won’t, China will just follow Trumps playbook. Don’t be surprised when Xi will order the kidnapping of the Taiwanese president.

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      2 months ago

      China will just follow Trumps playbook.

      Why would they do that? His playbook is dumb and routinely backfires.

      Seems like they’re stick with their existing playbook as it has been far more successful

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      2 months ago

      Something like that will happen. The US is trying to ruin China’s oil imports - from Venezuela and Iran. China will need to show they are serious.

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      2 months ago

      China could never, ever pull this off

      First of all, the gap between the US military and Chinese military is massive. Keep in mind, until the Russia invaded Ukraine, it used to be the consensus second strongest military in the world, not China. The gap between the US and Russia is comically huge. China simply lacks the intelligence gathering capabilities and the air/navel superiority to project power like this.

      Second of all, Taiwan is not Venezuela. Venezuela is a poor, horribly mismanagement country led by an incompetent dictator. It’s relatively easy to pay off corrupt insiders to get them to work for you. It’s also much easier to find, target, and destroy military targets. That’s not true for Taiwan it is a wealthy, extremely managed country led by a democratic government full of qualified people. The Taiwanese government has been planning defense of their sovereignty for decades, and they’re pretty damn good at it.

      The point is that if China had the ability to do something like this then they would’ve already done, but they haven’t because they can’t.

    • optissima (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Lmao what an insane whataboutism, akin to “the crazy screaming guy that stomps over the neighborhood just took another person hostage. So watch out for the quiet neighbor that has done nothing wrong for my entire life time, they’ll probably start taking hostages any minute too.”

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      2 months ago

      I love how American minds work. “We did a terrible thing, this is bad because China might do the same!!” Meanwhile China hasn’t dripped a bomb in decades.

      Fucking liberals.

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          2 months ago

          I’m a socialist, and I don’t give a fuck where you’re from. American Exceptionalism and Imperial Apologia doesn’t concern itself with your soil, just your words and actions.

          Sit down and shut up.