• ptu@sopuli.xyz
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    6 hours ago

    China taking Taiwan makes zero sense. It’s a peaceful island next to gigantic mainland China and they can easily coexist like this

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      4 hours ago

      China has no deep sea submarine ports.

      But it doesn’t make sense to take Taiwan because it would trigger the war that those ports could prevent by allowing China nuclear retaliation.

      I think they prepare to take Taiwan, and Japan, for when the US start the conventional war that prevents a Chinese technological lead. They can’t let the US have airfields that close.

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        5 hours ago

        Any time. And they probably know that if they start warring against the peaceful island, the worlds perspective on them changes for good. Tibet was already bad, but they didn’t have the means to spread their message like today and China got away with it.