Posted on 06/13/2020 1:43:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Armored personnel carriers roll down a city street. A train station sits half-destroyed. Residents cower behind curtains, a man throws up his arms in defeat. Soldiers press in, forcing vanquished Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to carry a Chinese flag.
Such are the fantasies of China’s militant nationalists, portrayed in a series of art projects, anime cartoons and model dioramas that have been shared online, all depicting a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway territory.
“This is a great era of the Chinese people. No force can look down on us anymore,” wrote a social media user with a Chinese navy avatar who posted one of the images. “The motherland must be unified, and it inevitably will be unified.”
The hawkish views don’t represent the majority opinion in China, but they were amplified by the state this year after the reelection and inauguration of Tsai, a staunch opponent of unification with the mainland. They coincide with China's growing military strength and its provocative actions to expand its influence in the South China Sea.
China’s communist rulers often stoke nationalism to burnish their legitimacy, especially when facing domestic challenges such as the mass unemployment and economic slowdown that have hit the country as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Assertiveness on the world stage is an effective distraction from problems at home.
In the last few months, social media posts have cheered China on as it has flown fighter jets into Taiwanese airspace, brawled with Indian soldiers along the remote Himalayan border and approved a national security law in Hong Kong that in effect eliminates the territory’s autonomy.
But the nationalistic chest-thumping can also backfire, not the least when it creates ambitious expectations of the nation’s modernizing military, which has risen to become one of the most powerful in
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It’s not worth it to China to invade Taiwan. The world reaction would be massive and would include economic boycotts. The cost-benefit analysis is clearly against invasion.
even when obamatard was president, we were selling arms and jets to Taiwan. We just posture we wont “involve” ourselves with Taiwan but the Chicoms know, unlike HK, we will be there if they do something “foolish”..
If the Chicoms are allowing publicity about invading Taiwan there’s a reason.
If Taiwan wants to keep from being invaded by Communist China it should create a military system like Switzerland. Arm every adult male with a rifle and ammunition. Keep guarded arms caches of RPGs and should-fired anti-aircraft missiles littered throughout the country in deep bombproof bunkers. That would mean a militia of about 5 million. China would never invade.
Except that our military budget is earmarked for a lot of things not military.
Thanks congress.
Why Switzerland? Why not Israel?
Let the women serve, too.
This is 2020.
RE: If Taiwan wants to keep from being invaded by Communist China it should create a military system like Switzerland. Arm every adult male with a rifle and ammunition.
Every young able bodied male in Taiwan is required to go through several weeks of military training. So yes, they already have close to 5 million civilians trained to fight.
The only problem I think is they don’t have a second amendment right like we do, so I don’t think every home has a firearm.
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