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Pelosi’s Taiwan visit should prompt Beijing to start reunification process

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Taking the macro view, this is an official admission that the CCP is not ready to use force (yet). US intelligence estimates that any potential military action by China is two years away at best due to ongoing internal difficulties. An armed conflict would hurt China more than it hurts anyone else.

This is important because it gives the West more time to further secure supply channels, and avoids one more distraction from the Ukraine theater.

It's not "reunification" because Taiwan was not part of China to begin with. Taiwan is it's own democratic country. China can fuck off.

>It's not "reunification" because Taiwan was not part of China to begin with.

FYI, technically, Taiwan claims mainland China as its own. So even Taiwan thinks it's one country. This is on a technical level though.

Real disagreement is which government is legitimate one. One in Taiwan or one in Beijing.

Countries that recognize Taiwan in 2022:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

Looks like most of the world can "fuck off", I guess.

> [Taiwan] is currently not in the UN and is classified as only a territory.

Add the UN to that list, too.

Alibaba acquired SCMP in 2016. It's now under CCP control.

And western media is mostly under Rupert Murdoch control.

We should have more balanced news instead of drinking propaganda from one side only.

And western media is mostly under Rupert Murdoch control.

Uh, no.

Lol. Starting a war because someone placed a visit ( and it wasn't the only one in the history).

Pelosi is used as an excuse by China and that's it.

Just like Russia occupied Crimea first because of gas found in 2008 ( that could replace Russia's). Not because of NATO.

All those armchair political experts here when it comes to China.

Kindly refer to the Taiwan crisis in 96.

Sometimes I feel people here are trolling. "China is provoking a war".. and this after being surrounded by American Air Force bases in the West, East and South, having US aircraft carriers being sent in front your door, having agreements being broken* (no high key visits to Taiwan), getting anti-Chinese propaganda by US presidents 24/7, being pulled into trade wars... and then being called "aggressive". As far as I know China has invaded exactly 0 countries in the past 100 years.

* "By 8 July 1996, after intensive talks in Beijing between US National Security Adviser, Anthony Lake, and China's equivalent, Liu Huaqiu, the US committed itself to the equivalent of a fourth Joint Communique on Sino-US relations. China and the US reaffirmed the validity of the three previous Joint Communiques but in addition, the US stated that it would not support Taiwan's independence or its attempts to join the United Nations."

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...

> As far as I know China has invaded exactly 0 countries in the past 100 years.

The last time was the 1979 invasion of Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War Before that, there were invasions of Mongolia, the Soviet Union, South Korea, India and Tibet. Of course in each case the fighting was in territory that the Qing dynasty used to claim and subsequently lost, but that's the case for Taiwan as well, with Japan taking control after invading the island in 1895.

> All those armchair political experts here when it comes to China.

Yep. Just because you can write a for loop doesn't mean you know anything about the relationship between China, Taiwan, and the US. History is always grey. It's never black and white.

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