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    Taiwan , the next Domino?

    https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-countries-opposing-china-crack-heads-spill-blood-2021-7?op=1

    Looks like Xi's adamant to claim

    the never Chinese beautifil isle of Formosa (Portuguese for pretty like Hispanic Hermosa),

    The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach the island off the southern coast of China in 1544, and named it Formosa (Portuguese for "beautiful") due to the beautiful landscape as seen from the sea.


    China's president used his party's 100 year anniversary to warn other countries against trying to influence China.
    Xi Jinping said that they would "crack their heads and spill blood" if they tried.
    He was speaking in Beijing on Thursday at an event marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China, founded in 1921.
    The party has ruled continuously for the past 72 years, after triumphing in a long civil war in 1949.
    Xi said: "The Chinese people will never allow foreign forces to bully, oppress or enslave us. Whoever nurses delusions of doing that will crack their heads and spill blood on a Great Wall of steel built from the flesh and blood of 1.4 billion Chinese."
    Xi said that China would not allow "sanctimonious preaching" from other nations.
    Relationships between the US and China have been deteriorating, and other countries have increasingly condemned China for its human rights record, including its placing of millions of Uighur Muslim people in camps.
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    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan-is-coming

    The impact on semi conductors and electronic devices will be global IMHO.

    It is a long but insightful piece of analysis .

    Jason Morgan

    A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is coming

    The recent CCP congress and other signs show Xi is preparing for war30 October 2022, 10:50pm



    This month, at the 20th

    National Party Congress of the Chinese Communist party, Xi Jinping was elected to a third term as chairman. ‘The New Mao’ – so has rung the common refrain.

    It’s an entirely accurate assessment. The very existence of the two-term-limit precedent that Xi has now broken was set by Mao’s successor, Deng Xiaoping, in 1982. The reasoning behind the term limit was to prevent the cult-of-personality chaos that Mao and his sycophants had whipped up during his untrammelled, ruler-for-life tenure at the helm of the Chinese state. Deng wanted to make China rich enough so its citizens wouldn’t care that they were not free. To do that, he needed law and order, not proto-woke Red Guards beating up middle school teachers.



    And to have law and order, Deng knew he needed to keep the political turnover in Beijing moving along at a healthy clip. No more maniac geezers like Mao hanging on until the country turned into a giant communist revival tent. Two terms and you’re done.


    It worked for a while – until the rise of Xi. Xi came to power in the usual fashion – murder both judicial and extra-judicial, by hook and by crook. But he has played for keeps, and double-crossed the strongest in ways few have ever dared. Like others in his situation, Xi the tyrant realises that to lose power, or even to appear to let it slip from his grasp momentarily, is to invite instant retaliatory assassination. He will hold the brass ring until rigor mortis sets in. Just like Mao did.


    The romance of the Revolution
    But Xi is like Mao in another way, too. Chinese politicians after Mao have been mainly Party Central types, interchangeable bureaucratic nobodies (with the exception of ). The historic destiny of the Chinese Communist party? Ha. ‘The historic destiny of my Swiss bank account’ was the driving factor for China’s elite after Mao and Deng. Not Xi, though. Xi is a romantic. He believes in socialism with Chinese characteristics. Believes in it so much that he’s willing to risk world war to see it spread over the earth as a soothing balm.
    Xi, like Mao, wants the Revolution to continue. He wants to roll the Hegelian dice with his own hand. Marx and Lenin, rise from your graves and conquer! And so, hewing to the old-school CCP version of ‘history’ – which claims that China is fated to undo all its past ‘humiliations’ and return to the centre of geopolitics – Xi all but lowered the green flag on the final grand battle that will make China great again: the invasion of Taiwan.


    As if to signal that the days of business as usual, grift-grin-retire communism were over, during the Twentieth National Party Congress, Xi had former president Hu Jintao, now a distinguished-looking gentleman with silver streaks in his hair, escorted off the stage by CCP goons. Xi looked Hu straight in the eyes, half ruthless and half bemused, as the old man was yanked away, surely never to appear in public again.
    So long, Hu. Copacetic communists are anathema. Xi is in charge now. And he is steering the Chinese ship of state headlong toward the Revolution’s apocalyptic ending.


    The irony of Taiwan
    For the sake of the world communist revolution, he will surely take Taiwan – or send millions to die tryingThe CCP’s showdown with ‘history,’ and the rest of the world’s showdown with the CCP appears to be materialising over a smallish island tucked in the grand archipelagic arc comprising also the Philippines and Japan. In a speech last year in Beijing on the occasion of the centennial of the founding of the CCP, President Xi warned that anyone who tried to oppose China – the implications that Xi meant ‘over Taiwan’ were unmistakable – would get their ‘heads bashed in bloody’. The man sounds deadly serious.



    Yes, no doubt Xi wants to ‘retake’ Taiwan. The irony of Xi’s Ahab Quest is that Taiwan has never been a part of China. ‘China’ today is a recapitulation of the old Qing Empire (which, to add irony to irony, was not Chinese but Manchurian). Tibet, East Turkestan, Mongolia, and Manchuria are in no historical sense remotely ‘Chinese’. Ditto for Taiwan, in which Qing officialdom evinced only desultory interest until 1854, when American Commodore Matthew C. Perry, fresh from his gunboat-treaty journey to Japan, showed interest of his own.
    Not at all worth fighting a war with western barbarians over a barbarian island, the Qing officials concluded. ‘Taiwan?’ the Qing bureaucrats told Perry. ‘Wild tribes live there. We have no control over those people.’


    The Qing disavowed Taiwan, and so Perry concluded a treaty with a Taiwanese aboriginal chief instead of with Beijing. But the remoulding of CCP-style ‘history’ has now reached a fever pitch, and so the documented history of Taiwan has been thrown by the wayside.


    On 20 October, as the Congress was in full swing, I spoke to Seki Hei, a naturalised Japanese citizen who left China after the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Seki now analyses Chinese politics for the Japanese national daily Sankei Shimbun.
    Seki made it clear that Taiwan was the crux of the deal struck to allow Xi a third term. ‘There are quite a few people inside the CCP who are against Xi Jinping,’ Seki said. ‘Xi won over those opposing voices and secured support for his third term by promising, among other things, to solve the Taiwan problem. Unification with Taiwan was the fundamental justification which Xi offered for the need to extend his rule for another term.
    ‘During his keynote address at the opening ceremony of the National Party Congress,’ Seki continued, ‘Xi drew enthusiastic applause as he vowed to unify Taiwan with the mainland. Xi made it clear that he would to take Taiwan if necessary.’ I asked Seki if Xi would follow through on his end of the bargain. ‘The possibility of a move to take Taiwan is now very high,’ he replied. ‘Even if that means war.’


    The American factor
    ‘Xi Jinping wants to avoid war with the United States,’ Seki told me. ‘What he and the CCP are trying to do is to arrange things so that Washington does not send forces to Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. Beijing has nuclear weapons. China will threaten the American military and attempt to keep the American side from moving [in response to a move by China].’
    The argument is sound. But I wonder how it will all play out when the shooting starts in earnest. In early August, I attended a simulation in Tokyo, put on by the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (where I am a research associate), envisioning Japan’s response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The simulation felt very real, not least because, as the desktop exercise unfolded in a hotel ballroom, the People’s Republic of China was launching real missiles around Taiwan, a tantrum thrown in response to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei on 2 August.




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    Former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzō said many times in recent years, before he was silenced by an assassin’s bullet in July, that ‘an incident involving Taiwan is an incident involving Japan’. Japan is an ally of the United States, of course, and the United States is treaty-bound to defend Japan in the event of war.


    The last southwestern outpost of Japan, the Senkaku Islands, lies about 100 miles off the coast of Taiwan. The sparks that set off wars can easily fly that distance.

    And the sparks have been flying for a while now. Nearly every day for the past several years, Chinese ‘coast guard vessels’ (warships painted coast guard white) have been entering Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands, circling them like sharks going around a life raft. Japan has sent its own coast guard vessels to meet the Chinese invaders, day after day after day. It’s a recipe for regional, possibly world, war.
    In 2010, a Chinese ‘fishing boat’ (also used as part of the country’s informal attack flotilla) a Japanese coast guard patrol boat. It is only a matter of time before there is another incident on the high seas around the Senkakus. ‘China could not win in a direct confrontation with the United States,’ Seki said. ‘But Xi is betting that Washington will not countenance war over Taiwan.’


    There is good reason for Xi to believe that, by upping the ante to full-blown war, the Americans will back down. ‘When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990,’ Seki told me, ‘there were United Nations resolutions condemning Iraq’s actions and authorising the use of force [to push Iraq out]. But Taiwan is not part of the United Nations’. Washington does not even recognise Taiwan as a nation. In 1979, then-president Jimmy Carter severed relations with Taiwan [in favour of China]. Washington has an obligation to defend allies, for example fellow Nato countries and the like. But it is under no obligation to defend Taiwan: it merely provides Taiwan with weapons. ‘This is where Xi is focusing his attention: will Washington go to war over an island with which it does not even have formal diplomatic relations?’


    Taiwan or bust
    Dr. Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, the representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Japan, said to me about the National Congress speech that ‘Xi said that “Resolving the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese, a matter that must be resolved by the Chinese.” If Xi is really sincere and true to what he says, he should let the Chinese people decide not the communist leadership. On the contrary, the communist leader has threatened to take over Taiwan by force and has created a warlike situation in the area around the South China Sea.’
    CCP exile and dissident Jennifer Zeng, who underwent torture in China for practicing Falun Gong and who now analyses Chinese politics from the United States, agrees.
    ‘Militarily, Xi has made it very clear that he will “unify” Taiwan with the mainland “peacefully” or with force. It is just a matter of when.’


    But when is the million dollar question. Earlier this year, Zeng reported on what appears to be an authentic recording of a CCP war mobilisation meeting on 14 May. The party seems to be making concrete preparations for all-out war over Taiwan.
    ‘While Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law in four occupied regions [of Ukraine], the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine issued a Notice on the Transfer and Evacuation Guide and Consular Service Arrangements for Chinese Citizens in Ukraine, reminding Chinese people in Ukraine to be ready for evacuation at any time,’ Zeng said. ‘These two incidents happened on the same day, either accidentally or by having been well coordinated.’


    She added: ‘Another event to notice is that Chinese vice-president Wang Qishan, who often acts as Xi Jinping’s special envoy, went to Kazakhstan on 13 October. Under the current quarantine policy in Beijing, this trip would make him unable to attend the CCP’s 20th National Congress, the most important political event for the CCP. What kind of matter was more important and urgent? Could it be a secret meeting with Putin to urgently coordinate issues related to the Russia-Ukraine War?
    ‘Some people might think that the setbacks Putin encountered during the war against Ukraine would make Xi think twice about invading Taiwan,’ Zeng continued. ‘But, considering Xi’s personality, such information might instead cause him to speed up his invasion of Taiwan. The reason is that Xi might want to invade Taiwan while Russia is still able to hold the West in check. If Xi waits until Russia is completely defeated, then the West will have only the CCP to deal with. And that wouldn’t be too good for Xi Jinping.’
    The return of the domino theory



    Just after World War II and throughout most of the Cold War, western pundits and political leaders were wont to think of communist expansion as a parlour game. As one nation came under communist sway, the ‘domino theory’ went, other nations would be toppled in turn. To stop the cascade, democratic states were obliged to intervene in faraway conflicts, lest the problem of communist expansion, left unchecked, spread via chain reaction.


    The domino theory fell out of favour after the disastrous American war in Vietnam. But over the past few years it’s been making a comeback. Not explicitly, as far as I know. But people are seeing the world in a domino way again. The Uyghurs and Tibet are being crushed by China. Hong Kong is now under Beijing’s heel. Sri Lanka, Laos, Pakistan, Kenya, Gambia, the Solomon Islands: one by one the dominos are quivering. It seems plain, almost mathematical. Taiwan will be next. If perception is reality, then it appears that Taiwan is doomed. Xi will win the history wars by rewriting the past and the future to shape his present ambitions. Even the historical record will fall, another domino in the chain.


    This may be the final irony of Taiwan. The pièce de résistance of China’s demolition of history-less globalism will likely come with the ransacking of an island so globalised that it has virtually no nation-state friends at all, a place where the faith of the globalists in ‘strategic ambiguity’ is about to be crushed by an ethno-nationalist dictator.

    Xi Jinping has amassed continental power and sits on the old Chinese imperial throne. He has no serious rivals. He lacks but one thing: Taiwan. For the sake of the world communist revolution, he will surely take it – or send millions to die trying
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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    "The Chinese people will never allow foreign forces to bully, oppress or enslave us. Whoever nurses delusions of doing that will crack their heads and spill blood on a Great Wall of steel built from the flesh and blood of 1.4 billion Chinese."
    What an utter tool . . . fuckwit.


    It always amazes me how the biggest bullies and miscreants are such whining hypocrites . . . interfere elsewhere at their leisure . . . and whine like little bitches at the slightest 'sleight' against them. Add Russia and North Korea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    What an utter tool . . . fuckwit.

    It getting away with it. His domestic audience and folk like OhOh lap this shit up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    It getting away with it. His domestic audience and folk like OhOh lap this shit up.
    His "domestic audience" can't do much else unless they want to go to prison.

    Meanwhile his re-election wiped six trillion dollars off shares and bombed the Yuan to a 14 year low - and that's a currency they fix.

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    Pelosi made Xi look like a fool. He is all mouth and no trousers, and if he tries to attack Taiwan it will be his Ukraine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    What an utter tool . . . fuckwit.
    I agree. I feel the same about Putin but that hasn't stopped him starting a war that has seen tens of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands displaced - so far.

    My opinion, not especially well-informed, is that now Xi has won his third term a forced incorporation of Taiwan into the PRC is more likely. A likely scenario is that he'll start with some islands, Taiwan has quite a few. Dongsha (Pratas) could be the first target. Does anyone think the US public will go to war over a single, small atoll? Xi has already grabbed a few and did anyone stop him?
    Then Kinmen and Matsu. A much tougher military proposition than Dongsha but again, will the US go to war over Kinmen, just 6 miles off the Chinese mainland? After that, who knows?

    China faces some domestic economic difficulties with the real estate sector and covid and unemployment rates, there's nothing like a bit of offshore action to take the peasants' minds off their own woes.

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    ^ Excellent post, Shutree. Death by a thousand cuts. Let's hope he and Putin both have fatal heart attacks

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    The US will have "gamed" these scenarios. The Americans might respond with some targeted economic sanctions if the Chinese grab a few atolls.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    What an utter tool . . . fuckwit.
    My wife concurs, but at least I mean well and have no territorial claims beyond my side of the bed, can that be said of Xi?

    Deng Zhaoping and Hu Jintao could claim to have brought more from grinding rural poverty to mid income status, a scial contract.

    However Xi may well go for it as a distraction from domestic problems magnified by global events and Covid.

    His shameful treamet of minorities, Uighurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong bodes ill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    My wife concurs, but at least I mean well and have no territorial claims beyond my side of the bed, can that be said of Xi?



    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    Deng Zhaoping and Hu Jintao could claim to have brought more from grinding rural poverty to mid income status, a scial contract.
    Very true



    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    However Xi may well go for it as a distraction from domestic problems magnified by global events and Covid.

    His shameful treament of minorities, Uighurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong bodes ill.
    The great social experiment and authoritarian disaster has gone wrong . . . waging imaginary battles with big powers is all he has.

    No-one would invade Russia
    No-one would invade China

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    If Taiwan is the next domino..... what was the last domino?

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    Hong Kong ? South China Sea reefs ?

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    Inter Alia it is a process, can you cite of anywhere liberated by the PLA from subservience to more freedom?





    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    If Taiwan is the next domino..... what was the last domino?
    Qinghai Tibet Turkmenistan, Ningxia, Xinjiang Manchuria, Inner Mongolia so many colonized by Han imperialism ,

    I suggest a study of history enlightens the present

    Look at the foreigners who have meddled in Vietnam, Japan, France USA , Australia oh and China...

    Sino-Vietnamese War - Wikipedia

    For those to young, ior unfamiliar with book learning to have learnt about the running dogs of Chinese Imperialism eh?

    The Tigers of Singapore are wiser than the Asses of Adelaide.

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    can you cite of anywhere liberated by the PLA from subservience to more freedom?
    Easy

    Tibet

    Providing more freedom and a better life for ordinary tibetans, wouldn't take much effort then.

    Tibet was a feudal state of the worst kind even with slavery thrown in.

    You should know, David


    As a matter of principle, I do however support independence for Tibet.

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    And would you really like "East Turkmenistan" to become the kind of state ETIM has in mind? Most Uyghurs do not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    Easy

    Tibet

    Providing more freedom and a better life for ordinary tibetans, wouldn't take much effort then.

    Tibet was a feudal state of the worst kind even with slavery thrown in.

    You should know, David


    As a matter of principle, I do however support independence for Tibet.
    Ikke Slesvig-Holsten-spørgsmålet

    Longer leads bigger cages, you either support a foreign power ruling Tibet or not , I cannot see a third position can you, ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    Longer leads bigger cages, you either support a foreign power ruling Tibet or not , I cannot see a third position can you, ?
    That wasn't your question.

    You got an answer you didn't like. Or one that didn't quite fit.

    Nevermind

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    And would you really like "East Turkmenistan" to become the kind of state ETIM has in mind? Most Uyghurs do not.
    My opinion is of no moment as I have zero influence beyond my orbit. I will always support democracy until a better method devised, I am anti aristocracy as rulers nor religious or hereditary rulers, Sortition is preferable to an accident of the bedchamber.

    Surely democratic autonomy implies the locals choose their governance in a free , unhindered and transparent manner.

    Sadly most of our planet is still ruled by Monarchs, Emperors, Khalifs, Ayatollahs, Emirs, Grand Dukes, Crown Princes , Sultans, Dictators,, Papists, rapist and the unelected King of Australia. and pretend democracies like here.

    Our grandchildren will regard the needless wars and religion spouted at children as part of the psychoogical damage which distracted from protecting each other , fighting disease, eco and natural hazards

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    Easy

    Tibet

    Providing more freedom and a better life for ordinary tibetans, wouldn't take much effort then.

    Tibet was a feudal state of the worst kind even with slavery thrown in.

    You should know, David


    As a matter of principle, I do however support independence for Tibet.


    Phaaark me. Just when you thought you the three stooges couldn’t go any lower…

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    Phaaark me. Just when you thought you the three stooges couldn’t go any lower…
    Ok

    So give me your version.

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    Nope, I’m not going to dignify your gross distortions any weight be arguing against them like they are actual positions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    your gross distortions
    ?
    Sadly not so
    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    So give me your version.
    I knew that you couldn't but also knew that you would bite anyway.


    My reply was to David44; a man of knowledge and experience, who because of that, do not have the priviledge of posting hot air like you.

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    For Helgs’s next act he’s going to engage a man of learning and experience in a fun & witty debate “would the Jews have been better off if Hitler had won WWII”

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    If Taiwan is the next domino..... what was the last domino?
    It really isn't that difficult, even for a totalitarian apologist like you, to start with:
    Quote Originally Posted by docmartin View Post
    Hong Kong ? South China Sea reefs ?
    And yes, we can continue with Tibet; , forced abortion, forced sterilisation, arbitrary arrest, mass-immigration of Han Chinese, clampdown on religious expression etc etc etc . . . fark me, Tibet shouldn't even be in the 'maybe' category.
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