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[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I had to check if this article was from The Onion

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

Can’t believe he figured it out. What a shame. Guess we’ll have to go provoke another country to invade our fellow flourishing independent democracies, who play a key role in the world’s trade.

Seriously though, I hope he’s just giving himself an easy out here. There’s always too much war going on.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I thought Taiwan was China? Hard to invade yourself, eh, Xi?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To be honest, it's almost certainly reworded or poorly translated from whatever he originally said.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

Assuming this conversation even happened.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

They sure are a contentious bunch.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why are you defending the rump state of a fascist dictatorship?

I hope the "Republic of China" can someday be peacefully dissolved and the province of Taipei reunited under the mainland government.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ugh, of course it was Blackburn

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

lifetime bitch

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

‘Renegade breakaway province’

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago

Uh ... Yeah you got us... All a trick, darn guess our dastardly plan failed and you won't invade Taiwan now

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (19 children)

Taiwan has a right to defend itself if it chooses to.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

First link: Members of A Company, so you're looking at 100 people maximum and likely less. Not exactly a large fighting force.

Second link: There's nothing "quiet" about it. It's been blaring on Western News non-stop for about 6 years now. The US has been completely open about weapons sales and training schedules.

Third link: We gave President Tsai Ing-Wen a medal. Okay, and?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The NED is notorious for basically being a CIA cut-out

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

It’s amazing that this gets any downvotes at all.

Washington Post 1991: Innocence Abroad: the New World of Spyless Coups

"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA," agrees [NED cofounder Allen] Weinstein.

New York Times, 1997: Political Meddling by Outsiders: Not New for U.S.

The National Endowment for Democracy, created 15 years ago to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades, spends $30 million a year to support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries, including China.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

not a fighting force

Genuine question, I know tone is hard to read online but I promise I'm not trying to be snarky: do you know the role that special forces in general and green berets in particular play in US proxy wars? They don't fight, they raise and train local militias how to do insurgency and kill political enemies. Anytime green berets are in a country next door to an enemy of the US empire, it's because they're training the next ARVN, Taliban or Azov Battalion.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Not exactly a large fighting force

they're not there to hold down a trench

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

1st link: title of article

2nd link: title of article

3rd link: title of article

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (37 children)

Why would China invade itself?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

deng-salute

Carrying on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping deng-cowboy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

He's a slippery one

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Chinese leader Xi Jinping has accused the US of trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, but he said it won't take the bait, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

According to the FT, Xi made the accusation during a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in April last year.

Xi has issued the same warning to officials in his own country, one source told the FT, but this would be the first time he made the claim to a foreign leader, the outlet said.

But the mood in Washington, DC, seems to be shifting, with Congress showing itself more "overtly supportive of Taiwan than only a few years ago," Graeme Thomson, an analyst with the Eurasia Group, told BI in November.

Last month, a US congressional delegation met with senior Taiwanese officials to discuss US-Taiwan relations, a few days after China conducted military drills around the island.

During a meeting in April, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken not to cross China's "red lines" on sovereignty, security, and development interests.


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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The same Xi that violates Taiwan's airspace continuously. That increases the airspace violations whenever Taiwan does something that he doesn't like, like democratically electing pro-independence politicians or when US politicians visit Taiwan.

Yeah sure Xi, the only reason you threaten Taiwan's democracy is because the US tricked you into it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is such a ridiculous take. Taiwan is literally historically, legally and internationally-recognized part of China. It's literally an island that is part of China. There is no Taiwanese airspace to violate - it's China's airspace and has been since planes were invented.

Further, he didn't say the USA is trying to trick him into violating Taiwanese democracy but instead is trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, specifically by publishing stories about completing that Pacific Kill Chain by deploying specialized weapon installations on the island that could neutralize China's military advantages via nuclear first strike capabilities. China doesn't need to invade Taiwan for Taiwan to accept the one country two systems approach of integration which you would still consider a violation of their democracy.

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