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As much as I don't care about this if you think the US would let China takeover Taiwan naive isn't even the word.
Hong Kong?
As much as I don't care about this if you think the US would let China takeover Taiwan naive isn't even the word.
As much as I don't care about this if you think the US would let China takeover Taiwan naive isn't even the word.
Nah, there will never be a war as long as nuclear weapons exist between nuclear powers. You’re dumb if you think otherwise. The only way that will ever happen is if a resource war happens(coming soon to an earth near u) and countries have nothing else to lose. Ain’t no one trying to end the world over Taiwan
China President is a lot of things but he’s not a genocidal maniac. We’re the ones who elect those kind of people not the Chinese
That was for the most part a joke my friend. Most world leaders are genocidal maniacsDo you not consider Muslims people?
That was for the most part a joke my friend. Most world leaders are genocidal maniacs
Trust me I'm not an apologist for some authoritarian Imperialist shythole like China. fukk themOh laugh well there are several China apologists here…
Taiwan isn’t some model democracy but China is on the same path or worse as Imperialist Japan. They’re fukking ethically cleansing people right now.
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A group of French senators arrived in Taiwan for a five-day visit Wednesday following a large Chinese show of force with fighters jets amid the highest tensions in decades between China and Taiwan.
The group, led by senator Alain Richard, will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese economic and health officials and the Mainland Affairs Council. Richard, a former French defense minister, previously visited Taiwan in 2015 and 2018, according to Taiwan's semi-official Central News Agency, and heads the Taiwan Friendship group in the French senate.
China's ambassador to France Lu Shaye sent a warning letter in February calling on Richard to cancel the Taiwan visit, according to local media reports.
The visit will likely provoke a rebuke from China, which claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own territory and therefore opposes any international engagement with the island such as visits by foreign government officials. It also has aggressively poached Taiwan’s remaining diplomatic allies.
In its most recent display of sustained military harassment, China flew fighter jets 149 times toward Taiwan over four days from Friday to Monday. The White House called the flights risky and destabilizing, while China responded that the U.S. selling weapons to Taiwan and its ships navigating the Taiwan Strait were provocative.
Taiwan's defense minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told legislators Wednesday that the situation “is the most severe in the 40 years since I've enlisted." Chiu was answering questions as the legislature decides whether to approve a special budget for air and naval defense purchases.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949. Today they have extensive trade and investment ties but no official relations, and China has increasingly mobilized military, diplomatic and economic pressure to undermine Tsai's independence-leaning administration.
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Associated Press videojournalist Taijing Wu contributed to this report.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?What that mean
“I’ve spoken with Xi about Taiwan,” Biden said outside the White House. “We agree, we will abide by the Taiwan agreement. That’s where we are. And we made it clear that I don’t think he should be doing anything other than abiding by the agreement.”
The president appeared to be referring to a series of U.S.-China communiques that have provided the foundation for diplomatic ties between the two countries over the past four decades. Although the U.S. recognized the People’s Republic as the “sole legal government of China,” it never clarified its position on Taiwan’s sovereignty and Beijing has increasingly accused Washington of going back on its commitments.
The dispute over Taiwan is expected to be on the agenda when National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi meet in Zurich later Wednesday. The talks will represent the highest-level meeting between the two sides since an acrimonious exchange in March in Anchorage and are the latest sign of a diplomatic thaw between the two sides.
While there had been speculation that Biden and Xi might meet in person at the Group of 20 summit in Rome later this month, Chinese diplomats have informed members that Xi doesn’t currently plan to attend the gathering, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. Xi hasn’t left the country since the early days of the pandemic, the longest gap without a foreign trip by any G-20 leader.
Taiwan has been at the center of displays of military might by both the China and the U.S. in recent days, with the People’s Liberation Army sending scores of warplanes into the island’s air-defense-identification zone. The exercises coincide with naval drills in nearby waters by the U.S. and several allies, including Japan and the U.K.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki urged China on Monday to cease its “provocative military activity near Taiwan,” saying the action is “destabilizing, risks miscalculations and undermines regional peace and stability.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying rebuked the U.S. for what she said was its “extremely erroneous and irresponsible” statements supporting Taiwan.
Taiwan has recently stepped up warnings about China’s military threats, in an apparent appeal for greater international support. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said in a piece published in Foreign Affairs magazine Tuesday that the island’s fall “would be catastrophic for regional peace and the democratic alliance system” while Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said Wednesday that China would be capable of mounting a full-scale invasion by 2025.
they rich as fukk and multi-billion companies depend on them. so china cant just pull up like that
Agree with this, China can stunt all they want but as soon as they try to start threatening probably trillions in Western corporation factories, the threat of businesses pulling the plug would probably be enough to stop all-out war.