#环球时报Editorial: From what happened in Afghanistan, those in Taiwan should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will collapse in hours and US military won’t come to help. As a result, the DPP will quickly surrender. https://t.co/ZUrZmcsSWf pic.twitter.com/wFG4vrHbTo
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 16, 2021
Biden made the fall of Taiwan into the hands of the CCP inevitable.
Possibly Japan after that.
At leat there are no mean tweets as China spreads an empire across South East Asia.
I wonder if Vietnam, Japan, will step in? Vietnam has had a number of border clashes with China over the years.
Chinese craft attempting the crossing to Taiwan will explosively sprout holes. They’ll never be able to figure out where the subs were — or whose they were — at the time.
The difference is that Afghanistan isn’t a real country, but Taiwan is. With a serious army, an air force that knows what it’s doing, and people who are determined to keep the communist terror out.
What’s not clear is if they have enough firepower to succeed. On their own, of course; no sane person would count on US help, especially not now. If they bought enough rifles and ammo, they could easily do it, Swiss style.
Hm, imagine if every US gun owner who owns more than 2 rifles would donate one of them to a Taiwanese household, along with a box of ammo. 🙂
I’d be willing, but the big question is how to do the donation legally. ITAR et cetera, especially if you include an optic….
Over in the forums I was talking about just wanting to make a few firearms for friends but being unable to because of FFL, manufacturing, requirements and somebody pointed out ITAR regulations.
Last time I looked, ITAR regulations dwarfed FFL requirements in both size and costs of compliance.
Just another damn regulation in the way.
I’m lucky in that professionally I haven’t had to deal with ITAR — only with DoC export regulations, which are enough of a pain.
Does ITAR have “deemed exports” where you’re considered to be exporting simply by letting foreign nationals — including green card holders — see the blueprints of your product? That’s one surprise “gotcha” in the Commerce dept. regulations, and a pain for crypto software people given how many immigrants work as software engineers.
Meanwhile, I was searching for information on Taiwanese chip makers and found this scary article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-relies-on-one-chip-maker-in-taiwan-leaving-everyone-vulnerable-11624075400?st=fr3nr7lno6auxeh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink If the CCP conquers Taiwan, they’d be controlling 90% of high end chip making capacity. So if they don’t run the company into the ground, as communists are likely to do, we’d be at the mercy of random cutoffs and security back doors inserted by CCP agents. Afghanistan was bad from a humanitarian point of view, but economically speaking it’s a non-event. Taiwan would be an entirely different matter, worse than anything seen since 1940.
“Afghanistan isn’t a real country, but Taiwan is.”
You may consider it a real country… I may consider it a real country… many of its denizens may consider it a real country… but The International Community begs to differ. Didn’t the WHO refuse to accept WuFlu data from Taiwan on grounds of Taiwan not being a member of the Club of Countries?
There are thousands of missiles aimed at Taiwan. The country will last about an hour once China gets serious. Every building on the island will be pounded flat and all of the citizens killed.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/10/26/to-thwart-invasion-taiwan-points-powerful-new-missiles-at-chinese-bases/
But they won’t be CCP slaves.
It’s clearly possible for the CCP to destroy Taiwan. But if they want to conquer it to take advantage of the capabilities of the citizens and the industry on the island, they will have to go in with infantry and avoid indiscriminate bombing. If that’s what they want, the invaders can be shot by determined defenders.