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You gotta figure if the Chinese Politburo handicaps each US president on the odds of no US military response to a forceful re-unification attempt Trump is definitely going to be their horse.

Happy New Year, cross your fingers 2019 doesn't go down in history books as the start of World War 3 :)

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I don't see how a War could happen between two Nations that has Nukes. Do they agree on not to use Nuke before the war?

There won't ever be a World War 3, if there is the next one might very well be the end of human civilisation.

Most nations have adopted a "no first use" doctrine, a promise not to use nukes until their enemy does. The only nuclear powers not to adopt this are the US and north Korea.

Can’t think of any recent US President that would start a war with China over Taiwan. China will take Taiwan when it feels like it.

A US President will be unlikely to (voluntarily) start a war with China directly, but the US and Taiwan stand to mutually benefit from the US beefing up its military aid to Taiwan (the US because Taiwan is a massive allied economy that's enough of a threat to China for China to want to assert control, and Taiwan because they probably don't want to be steamrolled by a dictatorship).

I disagree. Letting the xijinping-dictatorship take over a democratic country would open the door for any and all further Asian invasions. The best chance to show all Hans that freedom can be won is on Taiwan.

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