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How Taiwan Is Planning to Stop an Invasion by China
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| 4/27/18
| Zachary Keck
Posted on 04/29/2018 7:11:57 PM PDT by BBell
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Some polls at the bottom of the article.
What is you all's opinion on Taiwan being able to hold off an invasion? Will they immediately collapse and roll over?
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:11:57 PM PDT
by
BBell
To: BBell
Im sure the Taiwanese would kill many many invading Chinese. But eventually they would simply be overwhelmed by numbers.
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:17:09 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: BBell
Asked since 1949: “Can the dragon swim?”
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:18:08 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: BBell
“What is you all’s opinion on Taiwan being able to hold off an invasion?”
The Red Chinese will not take the Republic of China while President Trump is in office.
If Democrats control Washington D.C. the ROC is endangered - but then, aren't we all.
To: elcid1970
The dragon has been taking swimming and flying lessons.
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:22:48 PM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: BBell
What is you all's opinion on Taiwan being able to hold off an invasion? That would have occurred during the Obama era, not now. ☺
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:31:39 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: BBell
The Vietnamese kicked their butts in 79’.
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:31:53 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
The Vietnamese had some of the best light infantry in the world at that moment in time.
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:36:57 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: BBell
Like I mentioned in a thread about Australia fending off China....get bio-weapons. Then they can inform China privately that if they are invaded it will be the end of China. Don’t need missiles or an army.
The U.S. doesn’t need a simulated invasion for our troops to practice repelling, the actual invasion of our southern border could provide all the training and exercise needed if they were properly mobilized.
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:44:24 PM PDT
by
Henchster
(Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
To: BBell
China isnt going to invade Tiawan militarily.
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:45:54 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: BBell
The poll also found that Taiwanese citizens have shockingly little faith in their militarys ability to fend off an invasionThey're not stupid.
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posted on
04/29/2018 7:46:49 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
To: BBell
The Taiwanese can hold them off. Been to CKS airport many times on route to Philippines, HK, SE Asia etc, and ALL security guys are armed to the teeth. The best time they could have done it was when obamatard was president but they didnt.
The Chinks know we wont just stand idly by like obamatard when Russia took the other countries by force. I read years ago they got mines for the sea to take out the ships.
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posted on
04/29/2018 8:02:10 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
To: BBell
Taiwan needs to learn from the Swiss. Send every discharged conscript home with his rifle and ammunition. Bring them back once a year for range time and checking.
Even the Chinese Communists would think twice about invading if they knew they faced 2-3 million armed citizens.
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posted on
04/29/2018 8:03:06 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: BBell
Taiwan is separated from China by a 110 mile wide strait. It has close up listening posts on Qemoy and Matsu islands, only a few miles from the coast. A surprise attack is out of the question. The artificial islands as well as the aircraft carrier complicate the matter but they would be instantly vulnerable to attack in the event of out and out hostilities.
I think Taiwan would be a tough nut to crack.
To: dragnet2
That would have occurred during the Obama era, not now. Great point. I think the Chicoms know they will not win an invasion unless they want to turn the island into a smoldering ruin.
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posted on
04/29/2018 8:18:29 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: BBell
With conventional forces - Taiwan wouldn't stand a chance, but if they are willing to go all-in and threaten the Three Gorges Dam then China has the choice of backing down or calling Taiwan's bluff and possibly losing pretty much everything downstream of the dam - and that is a lot of stuff.
My guess... the average Taiwanese citizen would rather reunify with the mainland than put their pleasant lifestyle at risk.
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posted on
04/29/2018 8:27:11 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: BBell
Taiwan has become more and more of an asset to China over the last two decades.
It would be stupid to destroy that asset.
The Chinese tend to be fairly smart... But they have made many bad decisions in the past.
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posted on
04/29/2018 8:29:17 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: BBell
I don't believe that I have read something this stupid purporting to be a serious military analysis yet, during 2018.
In the early eighties, Taiwan was test detonating their emerging nuclear arsenal at sea. This rattled the mainland communists, and Reagan negotiated a cessation of provocative nuclear preparations. The detonation ceased.
The cessation didn't come about because Taiwan abandoned their plan of defense. It came about because the United States provided Taiwan with tested designs.
This load of horse manure is of the same stripe as similar pieces written about Israel in the sixties and seventies when we were pretending the world didn't know Israel was the eight hundred pound nuclear gorilla of the middle east.
You asked my opinion, there it is, and there is why.
Semper Fidelis.
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posted on
04/29/2018 8:29:56 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Yes but things have changed since 1979.
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posted on
04/29/2018 8:31:11 PM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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