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China Will 'Start a Just War' If U.S. Troops Return to Taiwan, State-affiliated Media Warns
newsweek via msn ^ | 9/24/2020 | Brendan Cole 4 hrs ago

Posted on 09/24/2020 12:46:34 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

The editor of China's state-backed Global Times newspaper has taken aim at an article published in the professional journal of the U.S. army which calls for a return of American forces to Taiwan.

Hu Xijn tweeted his disdain at the piece written by Capt. Walker D. Mills, from the U.S. Marine Corps in the latest edition of Military Review.

In the piece, Mills says that the regional balance of power in East Asia is shifting away from the United States and Taiwan and towards mainland China. In his view, this meant that the U.S. needed to consider basing ground forces on the island "if it is committed to defending Taiwanese sovereignty."

The article headlined "Deterring the Dragon," has Mills warning that the current power balance made a surprise attack on Taiwan "more likely" and believes that American leadership has to "face down" international pressure "against a deliberate and more global conflict with China."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affiliate; ccp; china; kag; maga; trump
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1 posted on 09/24/2020 12:46:34 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

China vs. USA, Australia, India, Japan, England, and some NATO troops

Good luck.


2 posted on 09/24/2020 12:48:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Chinese Communist Party has no idea about the Real World


3 posted on 09/24/2020 12:49:33 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EEGator

Newsweek- another mouthpiece for China and H1-B1 visas !


4 posted on 09/24/2020 12:49:40 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: RomanSoldier19

5 posted on 09/24/2020 12:51:58 PM PDT by GulfMan
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To: RomanSoldier19

If I can be briefly serious, I hope the Chicoms, Russians, Iranians and North Koreans do not believe the CNN and MSNBC panels that Trump is on his way out by removal from office before being trounced by a huge election loss. Then the foreign countries could risk attacks and bullying stances to dare the weakened Trump without fear of retaliation.

In the 60s other countries were said to fully believe that “shutting down the universities in America by student protests against the war would cause change of government” because all their countries have had that happen. Here it was a joke “We can save the tuition money wasted. Let them stay closed with hippies sleeping on the college president’s office floor. So what?”


6 posted on 09/24/2020 12:52:54 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: EEGator
Covid-19

...Made in China

(like everything else)

7 posted on 09/24/2020 12:53:29 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I really don’t think I want to see my kids deployed to Taiwan. If China wants to invade, they will invade. There isn’t much we would be able to do about it.


8 posted on 09/24/2020 12:54:55 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Purchased for $1.

No more H1-B’s, and tax Chinese imports and companies that outsource to China.


9 posted on 09/24/2020 12:55:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Vermont Lt
"There isn’t much we would be able to do about it."

Nor should we. Not every fight in the world is ours.

10 posted on 09/24/2020 12:57:35 PM PDT by mlo
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To: RomanSoldier19

Already have fired the first shot with the Wuhan flu.


11 posted on 09/24/2020 1:01:10 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Vermont Lt

I’ve spent time in Taiwan. 10-15% of their population live and work in Mainland China. The leader of the KMT (one of the major political parties there) was recently discovered to have secretly held talks in Macau with the Chinese Government. They have divided loyalties.

Every wealthy Taiwanese has a USA, Australia, Canada, NZ or other passport and usually a home and bolt-hole somewhere else.

Avoiding military service is a common game for young people there.

If they want true independence, they would follow the Swiss and send every army conscript home with his battle rifle. Of course, their government would never consider doing something like that.

I have ZERO interest in American boys and girls dying for Taiwan.


12 posted on 09/24/2020 1:06:25 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: frank ballenger; All

Print this up and get this out there in your precincts

There seems to be a refusal in certain political circles known as the Swamp to blame the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) for deliberately using the Wuhan virus to create an economy here which would prevent Trump get reelected. Letting that happen will create problems we don’t need. Time we point out the loss of employment and the corruption involved.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877139/posts#8


13 posted on 09/24/2020 1:14:49 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: RomanSoldier19

John Bolton has his fingers crossed.
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14 posted on 09/24/2020 1:18:18 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: PGR88
I’ve spent time in Taiwan.

I was there in 1968 on R&R from VN.
I must have had a great time because I remember nothing.
15 posted on 09/24/2020 1:19:39 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: RomanSoldier19

We absolutely should not station any US forces in Taiwan.

But they should visit every once in a while, just to rub China’s nose in it.


16 posted on 09/24/2020 1:20:10 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: hercuroc

John Bolton has his fingers crossed.

____________________________________________

...as does Bill Kristol and the Lincoln Project.


17 posted on 09/24/2020 1:22:30 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: butlerweave

One of the dangers of any system like this is that you form a bubble around the leadership which becomes insulated from reality.

The “underlings” always want to impress the great leader, and success by programs advocated by the party or some prominent leader sells better than saying it failed or brought mixed results. You even have it here in the US within government bureaucracies. The mid level managers know to echo whatever the flavor of the day is and they know what they shouldn’t criticize... Do you think Wolfowitz wanted to hear how the Iraqi’s weren’t celebrating us as liberators in 2003? Do you think the Obama Holder administration wanted to hear about voter intimidation by the new Black Panthers? But in a system like in China where you don’t even have a semblance of a right to free speech, privacy, etc. and a single all powerful party, this distortion tends to take on (cliché follows) “epic” proportions as with Nero in Rome, Saddam in Iraq, Idi Amin in Uganda...


18 posted on 09/24/2020 1:25:17 PM PDT by Red6
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To: butlerweave

They think they can pull the same stuff on others, they pull
on their own people.

Just wars end up with just dead people.

The Chinese are not immortal.

There would be costs to others too.

Taiwan is not China’s property.

To bad, so sad, your dad.

Chinese leadership is so immature. It has over a billion
citizens and a very large land mass. It has large deposits
of natural resources. It could be content. It has chosen
to demand property not it’s own outside it’s borders.

Sooner or later, it’s going to get schooled, when other
nations have had enough.


19 posted on 09/24/2020 1:25:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Vermont Lt

We could deport EVERY Chinese citizen in the US for starters. All college students, PHD candidates, etc.


20 posted on 09/24/2020 1:31:15 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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