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Taiwan says it would win war with China
Associated Press(AP) ^
| April 24, 2007
| Annie Huang
Posted on 04/24/2007 4:24:56 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:26:41 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: sukhoi-30mki
war predictions based on a computer simulation? huh????
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:27:38 AM PDT
by
4rcane
To: sukhoi-30mki
If current treads persist, Taiwan will not be able to win a war with the PRC (at least from a secular point of view).
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:28:04 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
..... in a few years Taiwan.....
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:29:00 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Think, Viet Nam... Korea.... China is the military bomb.
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:29:31 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the solders and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
I doubt it. China could sit back and pound Taiwan into dust from the sea, unless they had to bother with us.
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:29:32 AM PDT
by
nativist
(Weigh into them!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
My own solution to the problem would be to pick the darkest night of the month, take everything we have which moves on water, and pull the entire population of Taiwan back either to that Northwest corner of Australia which is populated mainly if not entirely by reptiles or to one of our own island posessions several thousand miles back from China, along with all their infrastructure and valuables, and tell the chicoms they can have the empty island of Taiwan.
They may have a claim to the island; they hve no possible claim to the millions of people who moved to that island to escape their fubar government.
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:30:14 AM PDT
by
rickdylan
To: sukhoi-30mki
Even Vietnam once handed the Chinese their @sses on a war in the early ‘80s. But still, this is a new China, and sparing room for over-confidence will be deadly to Taiwan.
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:30:32 AM PDT
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: nativist
Why would China bomb Taiwan to Kingdom Come and then take over an island with ruined infrastructure?
China is NOT going to invade Taiwan.
To: 4rcane
>>war predictions based on a computer simulation? huh????<<
Well, the Pentagon certainly uses simulations. you could bet your life they ran simulation prior to both Gulf wars.
But the assumptions that underly those simulations are critical. For example some American naval simulations have assumed it was impossible to lose a modern aircraft carrier.
Check this quote from the article.
“TAIPEI, Taiwan —A computer simulation projected that China could land forces on rival Taiwan, but they would be repulsed after two weeks of fierce fighting and harsh losses to both sides, Taiwan’s military said Tuesday.”
If China decided to invade and risk relations, trade and possible war with America does anybody in their right mind think they would give up after two weeks no matter the losses.
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:33:33 AM PDT
by
gondramB
(God only has ten rules, uncle Hank, and he has a much bigger house.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Wasn’t there a computer simulation that showed that if Germany attacked France in 1940, they would make some progress in certain fronts but would be routed and decisively defeated? If not, there should have been. The French Army was larger, better equipped, had the advantage of fighting a defensive battle on their home ground.
No plan survives initial contact with the enemy.
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:34:21 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
("We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.")
To: nativist
I doubt it. China could sit back and pound Taiwan into dust from the sea, unless they had to bother with us. And our soon to be elected Democratic President along with Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi would make China very very sorry for ever starting a war...
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:35:38 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Why would China bomb Taiwan to Kingdom Come and then take over an island with ruined infrastructure?"It isn't about the island. It's about "face".
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:42:48 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(Anti Islam and a Global Warming denier - piss on Islam)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The only other option would be for Taiwan to surrender like France. If Taiwan fights like England or Japan did, the only option would be bomb them to Kingdom Come. I’m not talking nukes here.
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:42:58 AM PDT
by
nativist
(Weigh into them!)
To: gondramB
They couldn’t afford the humiliation of defeat. They’d be in it to win no matter what the cost.
To: mainepatsfan
They couldnt afford the humiliation of defeat. Yet another in a long, long list of reasons that China would only attack Taiwan as a last desperate measure to save a crumbling regime -- which is certainly possible.
Taiwan makes a useful bogeyman and patriotic rallying cry for the ChiComs. It takes the spotlight off their own serious internal social problems.
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posted on
04/24/2007 4:49:48 AM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
("I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose" -- Mitt Romney, April 2002)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Wasnt there a computer simulation that showed that if Germany attacked France in 1940, they would make some progress in certain fronts but would be routed and decisively defeated? If not, there should have been. The French Army was larger, better equipped, had the advantage of fighting a defensive battle on their home ground. No plan survives initial contact with the enemy.There were no computers back then. But they probably did run some war games with maps, counters, pencils and dice. They assumed the Germans would not attack through Belgium. Well, the Germans did. So whether the war games mean anything depends on the assumptions. If they handicap the Taiwanese forces to account for Murphy's Law, while adding resources to the Chinese forces in order to account for what they don't know about the Chinese order of battle, they've run an honest simulation. Otherwise, they're just deceiving themselves.
To: JohnnyZ
Agreed. Just like what triggered the Falkland Islands’ war.
To: sukhoi-30mki
a rather....optimistic outcome projection.
he said in a supreme understatement.
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posted on
04/24/2007 5:02:46 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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