China reiterated its concerns about the Philippines’ plan to acquire the US Typhon missile defense system. In the foreign ministry press briefing on Thursday, December 26, the spokesperson of the ministry, Mao Ning, claimed it is a “strategic and offensive” weapon which may fuel arms race in the region. China also restated its long-standing demand for the withdrawal of the system already deployed near its borders.
It’s absolutely incredible to me how we’re just supposed to take it for granted that the US has 800 bases all over the globe and constantly interferes in affairs of other countries.
This film looks familiar
What are you talking about, this is new
After Trump tries to invade Mexico to ‘attack the cartels,’ China should offer Mexico a nuke or two.
Mexican Missile Crisis has a nice ring to it.
If Trump tries to invade Mexico and Israel still busy invading Syria and Russia busy Invading Ukraine, it would the perfect opportunity for China to invade Taiwan.
am not very optimistic for 2025
The CPC has said, literally since the separatists took the island of Taiwan, that it will never use force to integrate Taiwan under mainland governance. It has never wavered from this position. It is clear from everyone analyzing it that the reason is because such an invasion would create the conditions for a violent revolt and revolution. Instead, Taiwan and the mainland will integrate as a matter of mutual interest.
The only reason the CPC would use force against Taiwan would be if it moved to establish strategic dominance over all of China on behalf of the West.
Why would China invade Taipei if Taipei doesn’t launch an independence campaign?
How can they do an independence campaign if they’re independent? Real question, not trolling. I’m not well informed on the geopolitics.
What the other guy said is not exactly correct.
So while they are both China, both claim that the other is the illegitimate government of China. The long of the short is that during the tail end of world war II communist forces rallied and drove out the Japanese from mainland China and Manchuria. They forced the capitalist government forces literally into the ocean and they retreated to Taiwan after they invaded it and took it over from the locals.
They have been a government in exile since the end of world war II. They claim to be the official Chinese government. Basically imagine if instead of a country called China it was Mom and Dad are fighting and dad has been exiled to the shed where he now lives. And Mom kept the kids and still has the house. And because he has full autonomy over his shed, he’s able to produce all these fancy little projects that his neighbor down the street. The United States loves to buy from him. In exchange for all those great services, his neighbor down the street has helped him renovate that tiny shed into a nice tiny home.
Taiwan’s own constitution states that it is a province of China. The disagreement is, about who are the rightful government of all China. The western media industrial complex always fail to point that bit out.
Another thing they would rather you didn’t know is that Taiwan also claims the same territorial waters in the South China Sea, the same nine dash line, that the rest of China claims.
They’re not independent, no country in earth recognizes them as such. China calls it an autonomous region like Tibet or Hong Kong, they’re still fully subject to the mainlands laws, but they decide how to tax and what to do with taxes.
There is an independence party in their local Congress, but that’s about it. If they use the weapons the US gifted China to declare independence, then yes China will ‘invade,’ the same way the FBI invaded sovereign citizen’s homes in the US.
I never knew. Wild story.
Apparently:
- 19 UN member states recognize Taiwan (Republic of China) as an independent country
- 57 countries recognise the Taiwanese government as representative of the Chinese people but not as an independent entity
- The holy seat (Vatican city) recognizes them as a sovereign state
- There are 10countries that don’t recognize China nor Taiwan
- Vatican city was the first country to give recognition (1942)
This is all new to me.
