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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    The election result was indeed a rebuke against Tsai- why else did she subsequently resign?

    As for the author-


    Daniel Larison To Join Antiwar.com as Contributing Editor - Antiwar.com Blog

    Hardly a Blogger.
    Antiwarblog, not accurate enough for you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Intelligent readers are quite capable of reading and deciding for themself snubski. Your constant off topic, ad hom stuff adds nothing to this or any other thread, and just shows what an infant you are.

    So why did Tsai resign from the DPP party leadership after the elections?
    You posting links about war in Yemen is relevant???

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    No, the Link was about who Daniel Larison is- as any intelligent reader can see for themselves. I don't see how you advance your narrative by exposing yourself as a disingenuous idiot.

    So, why did Tsai resign after the elections? To celebrate �� her ✌️ victory?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I don't see how I advance my narrative by exposing myself as a disingenuous idiot.
    FTFY.

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    Ya gonna love this Neo-con boyz

    Taiwan backs Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson in push for peace with Beijing



    Defeated in 1949 in its civil war against China’s pro-Communist forces, the Nationalist KMT, or Kuo Min-tang, party has had a victory. But it had to wait till last Sunday’s Taiwan mayoral elections, where it won 13 of Taiwan’s 23 district electorates.

    Remarkably, the winner in the key election for the Taiwan capital, Taipei, was none other than Chiang Wan-an, the great grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, the defeated KMT leader in 1949. Even more remarkably, Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT today is seen as the peace party in the continuing conflict with the China from which it was forced to flee in 1949.

    I once had a minor role in this saga. In June 1961, as a Foreign Affairs adviser and together with John Gorton, then education minister in Canberra, we sat with Chiang Kai-shek on a Taiwan cliff watching KMT parachute troops being dropped into the ocean below us and made to swim ashore with heavy packs strapped to their backs.

    This, Chiang told us triumphantly, is how we will recover the Mainland.

    Today the KMT has a very different role. Like its rival the Democratic Progressive Party or DPP it supports the separation of Taiwan from Mainland China. But it seeks on every occasion to play down the belligerence of the DPP and its leader Tsai Ing-wen in policies to Beijing.

    Tsai and the DPP have welcomed the upgrading of US military support for Taiwan in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. The pundits predicted that Beijing’s angry response to these US moves would alienate Taiwan’s voters.

    But it is now clear that pundits are wrong. Many Taiwanese are not happy with the position taken by the DPP, for several reasons.

    In the first place and as part of the Nationalist initial policy of recovering the mainland this generation of Taiwanese have been educated to see themselves as Chinese. You will hear better Mandarin in the streets of Taipei than you will hear in Beijing.

    Beijing’s claims that Chinese should never attack Chinese gets a response.

    Business and other ties with Mainland China are strong. One estimate has two million Taiwanese now living, working and studying in China.

    For its part Beijing goes out of its way to welcome these people, with fast-track entry at sea and airports.

    Visitors from Mainland China were a strong support for Taiwan’s tourist industry before they were cut off after the DPP embarked on present policies.

    Coinciding with these factors the DPP has also lost support for its policies in handling the Covid problem, a slowdown in the economy and a rise in crime.

    We have yet to see how the US and Japanese planners will adjust to this setback in their hopes that a belligerent Taiwan would assist in their various plans to counter or weaken China. But few will have missed the irony of the man who one vowed defeat of China having a grandson now playing a leading role in the party which seeks better relations with China.

    Taiwan backs Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson in push for peace with Beijing - Pearls and Irritations


    Eat that.
    The Taiwanese are not the Ukrainians of the Far East. They sure don't want war with China.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Taiwan backs Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson in push for peace with Beijing



    Defeated in 1949 in its civil war against China’s pro-Communist forces, the Nationalist KMT, or Kuo Min-tang, party has had a victory. But it had to wait till last Sunday’s Taiwan mayoral elections, where it won 13 of Taiwan’s 23 district electorates.

    Remarkably, the winner in the key election for the Taiwan capital, Taipei, was none other than Chiang Wan-an, the great grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, the defeated KMT leader in 1949. Even more remarkably, Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT today is seen as the peace party in the continuing conflict with the China from which it was forced to flee in 1949.

    I once had a minor role in this saga. In June 1961, as a Foreign Affairs adviser and together with John Gorton, then education minister in Canberra, we sat with Chiang Kai-shek on a Taiwan cliff watching KMT parachute troops being dropped into the ocean below us and made to swim ashore with heavy packs strapped to their backs.

    This, Chiang told us triumphantly, is how we will recover the Mainland.

    Today the KMT has a very different role. Like its rival the Democratic Progressive Party or DPP it supports the separation of Taiwan from Mainland China. But it seeks on every occasion to play down the belligerence of the DPP and its leader Tsai Ing-wen in policies to Beijing.

    Tsai and the DPP have welcomed the upgrading of US military support for Taiwan in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. The pundits predicted that Beijing’s angry response to these US moves would alienate Taiwan’s voters.

    But it is now clear that pundits are wrong. Many Taiwanese are not happy with the position taken by the DPP, for several reasons.

    In the first place and as part of the Nationalist initial policy of recovering the mainland this generation of Taiwanese have been educated to see themselves as Chinese. You will hear better Mandarin in the streets of Taipei than you will hear in Beijing.

    Beijing’s claims that Chinese should never attack Chinese gets a response.

    Business and other ties with Mainland China are strong. One estimate has two million Taiwanese now living, working and studying in China.

    For its part Beijing goes out of its way to welcome these people, with fast-track entry at sea and airports.

    Visitors from Mainland China were a strong support for Taiwan’s tourist industry before they were cut off after the DPP embarked on present policies.

    Coinciding with these factors the DPP has also lost support for its policies in handling the Covid problem, a slowdown in the economy and a rise in crime.

    We have yet to see how the US and Japanese planners will adjust to this setback in their hopes that a belligerent Taiwan would assist in their various plans to counter or weaken China. But few will have missed the irony of the man who one vowed defeat of China having a grandson now playing a leading role in the party which seeks better relations with China.

    Taiwan backs Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson in push for peace with Beijing - Pearls and Irritations


    Eat that.
    The Taiwanese are not the Ukrainians of the Far East. They sure don't want war with China.
    Ignores the fact that the British might vote for a labour government next time round. Do continue reinventing that broken wheel.

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    Business and other ties with Mainland China are strong. One estimate has two million Taiwanese now living, working and studying in China.
    Not to mention the fact that Taiwan is highly economically dependent on China for both imports and exports.
    The Taiwanese 'Chinese' should not be confused with the Galician 'Ukrainians'. They are not that stupid.

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    OhOh. Please come and collect your love child. He is foaming at the mouth again and masturbating in class.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    They sure don't want war with China.
    Of couse they don't but don't think for a moment if attacked by the PRC they will fight tooth and nail to defend their independence and welcome assistance from the "West".

    Xi is not stupid either and knows this as well which is why the PRC has not invaded long ago.
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Of couse they don't but don't think for a moment if attacked by the PRC they will fight tooth and nail to defend their independence and welcome assistance from the "West".

    Xi is not stupid either and knows this as well which is why the PRC has not invaded long ago.
    Xi would require unconditional support at home before he even considered it. Such support is long way off right now.

    Xi is now committed to dealing with successive fires to be extinguished on the mainland, before he can even think about Taiwan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    Xi would require unconditional support at home before he even considered it. Such support is long way off right now.

    Xi is now committed to dealing with successive fires to be extinguished on the mainland, before he can even think about Taiwan.
    Like Putin with Ukraine, he was using Taiwan to stir up a bit of nationalistic fervour and make himself look like the great hero.

    Instead, also like Putin, he now looks like a c u n t.

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    If Xi was serious about taking Taiwan by force the first thing he would do is nationalise/ confiscate all Taiwanese assets & investments in China, which are huge, and place a trade embargo on the ROC. No need to panic- the Taiwanese sure aren't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    If Xi was serious about taking Taiwan by force the first thing he would do is nationalise/ confiscate all Taiwanese assets & investments in China, which are huge, and place a trade embargo on the ROC. No need to panic- the Taiwanese sure aren't.
    Yes, completely destroy any credibility in international investment.

    What a fucking cracking idea that would be.



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    Indeed. China ain't stoopid.

    completely destroy any credibility in international investment.
    But it does beg the question- what effect has this same policy had on US credibility?

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    US Air Force Launching New B-21 Raider





    America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China.

    The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified. Ahead of its unveiling Friday at an Air Force facility in Palmdale, California, only artists’ renderings of the warplane have been released. Those few images reveal that the Raider resembles the black nuclear stealth bomber it will eventually replace, the B-2 Spirit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    But it does beg the question- what effect has this same policy had on US credibility?
    It doesn't beg that question at all because it's completely stupid.

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    Then kindly explain- why has their standard of living increased exponentially this century, while oiks like you have remained static, or declined?Were you being paid too much? Were the poor billionaires suffering? Paying too much tax?



    People are ‘eating pet food’ because they can't afford real food anymore | Metro News

    Hope it's dog food, because the unworthy bastards do not deserve to afford cat food.

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    I'm trying to work out if you've just overdone the booze and drugs or this pathetic flip-flopping is just the result of your being a complete idiot.

    I made the comment that were China to "nationalise/ confiscate all Taiwanese assets & investments in China" it would destroy all trust in their financial system, and we've gone from you asking what effect "this policy had on the US" (Huh?) to people eating pet food.

    On balance, I'm going to be nice and assume you're just an idiot with ADHD or something.
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    The US has expropriated many foreign assets. Everything from Venezuelan, Iranian and Russian Sovereign funds, to Oligarchs yachts and so on. I think that has damaged it's financial credibility.

    China expropriating Taiwanese assets would damage it's credibility too- and I could only see it doing so in the event of war. The warmongers have been dealt a slap in the face by the resounding defeat and subsequent resignation of Tsai as DPP party leader. It is numpties like you talking up war with China, not the Taiwanese. Actually they do very well from China. Capiche?

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    Air Force's newest stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, unveiled in Palmdale


    New B-21 stealth bomber is unveiled

    The big reveal for the new B-21 Raider stealth bomber finally took place Friday night in a glitzy unveiling worthy of a Hollywood production as the aircraft was rolled out of a California hangar, but every effort was made to ensure that details about the new aircraft will continue to remain shrouded in secrecy.

    Taking place under the cover of night, the plane emerged slowly from the hangar bathed in dramatic blue lighting that did not reveal much beyond the plane's similar shape to the B-2 stealth bomber it is intended to replace.


    U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was among the 600 VIP's and 2,000 Northrop Grumman employees, who have worked on the new bomber for the past seven years, on hand for the big reveal at Northrop Grumman's Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

    "The B-21 looks imposing but what's under the frame and the space age coatings is even more impressive," Austin said in remarks after the bomber was unveiled. "Let's talk about the B-21's range. No other long range bomber can match its efficiency. It won't need to be based in theater. It won't need logistical support to hold any target at risk."

    "Fifty years of advances in low observable technology have gone into this aircraft," said Austin. "And even the most sophisticated air defense systems will struggle to detect a B-21 in the sky."

    "America's defense will always be rooted in deterring conflict," said Austin. "So we are again making it plain to any potential foe the risk and the cost of aggression far outweigh any conceivable gains."

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    Impressive piece of metal- although I don't know why it is on a Taiwan thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
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    America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China.
    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    Air Force's newest stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, unveiled in Palmdale

    "The B-21 looks imposing but what's under the frame and the space age coatings is even more impressive," Austin said in remarks after the bomber was unveiled. "Let's talk about the B-21's range. No other long range bomber can match its efficiency. It won't need to be based in theater. It won't need logistical support to hold any target at risk."

    "Fifty years of advances in low observable technology have gone into this aircraft," said Austin. "And even the most sophisticated air defense systems will struggle to detect a B-21 in the sky."

    "America's defense will always be rooted in deterring conflict," said Austin. "So we are again making it plain to any potential foe the risk and the cost of aggression far outweigh any conceivable gains."

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    The US has expropriated many foreign assets. Everything from Venezuelan, Iranian and Russian Sovereign funds, to Oligarchs yachts and so on. I think that has damaged it's financial credibility.

    China expropriating Taiwanese assets would damage it's credibility too- and I could only see it doing so in the event of war. The warmongers have been dealt a slap in the face by the resounding defeat and subsequent resignation of Tsai as DPP party leader. It is numpties like you talking up war with China, not the Taiwanese. Actually they do very well from China. Capiche?
    You're an idiot.

    No-one has "talked up" a war in China.

    Mr. Shithole is the one who has threatened to use force against Taiwan.

    Are you just a pathological liar or a complete imbecile? Or both?

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    You are an embittered, serial underperformer who takes out your obvious frustrations in life by being a third rate shitposter on the internet. How bad it must suck to be you. Are you a repressed homosexual too? Mommy issues, or Daddy issues? Were you abused as a child? Did the nasty boys all pick on you? Diddums.

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