I wish whole of EU would declare in unison support for Taiwan. Wonder if China would kick out every single EU nation embassy then?
Sure, Spain can take a break from hunting down Catalonian referendum politicians in France, or hunting down the Basque separatists that Franco didn't wipe out in Guernica, and can declare Taiwan should be an independent country.
The British PM can visit soldiers in Thiepval, Holywood or other UK barracks in north Ireland and declare support of Taiwan breaking off of China.
The Italian newspapers can take a break from condemning the northern League wanting to break off from Italy and form another country, and praise Taiwanese independence.
Maybe after an EU council meeting denouncing the people of Crimea voting to be annexed into Russia, we can have an opening of Taiwanese embassies in preparation for Taiwan announcing a break from China.
Are we supposed to order them by which may be even close to what we see with Taiwan or doesn't it matter at all?
I thought this was a discussion site about "hacking and startups".
If there's enough daily top of the front page US/EU bash China/Russia/Iran/Cuba/Venezuela (put your developing country not bowing down to the west here) threads for someone to have a "colorful comment history", then maybe this new focus of the site can be updated in the about section.
This is not twitter or something.
We see what you're doing.
It's not complicated.
This isn't the 90's, that stuff died down when we all united against the africans. [1] There's no separatist movement in Italy other than in fringe groups on Facebook. Definitely much less than "Texas wanting to secede" anyway.
Supporting Taiwan is really not a question of opposing local separatist movements (at least in Italy) as much as just "losing China" and all that it'd entail.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2KTI_mZ0v4
This video is satire, racist POV
I think the problem there was that the vote came after the annexation. Or the voting method was so untrustworthy it might as well have been made up.
If you want a more accurate comparison it would would be as if Spain started claiming that Portugal is a part of its territory and pushing the world to accept that position.
The west ignored the human rights situation at the beginning to get cheap labor, cheap resources and to ignore environmental issues and now the west can't simply stop without killing it's econonmy.
So more than that I'd hope EU can then put its squabbling aside and respong in unison to any military provocation as well.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_s...
In the EU we view the "Department of Defense" as a tool for actual defense. Not for invading the middle east for corporate benefit. We've been dragged into this several times by the US in the last decades and it's always been a huge failure and has sometimes led to worse threats (ISIS for example which was much more of a threat to us than Saddam Hussein was)
A land war against China is not winnable anyway. I do think we should help Taiwan if it comes to it. But this should just come down to strategic deterrents. There's no point sending armies. By the time they get there it's too late anyway.
Our main threat right now is mainly Russia. And mainly so because they view us as enemies. But having entire tank brigades like in the cold war won't do us any good. This is not how the next war will be fought.
The US is definitely overspending for no real benefit, except lining the pockets of defense contractors(and by that, politicians pockets)
One example is that several EU armies running out of precision bombs relatively early into the Libyan intervention [1].
[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-runs-short-on-some...