CCP may be desperate enough to start a war to save itself

[otto105]

Xi is being squeezed by the trump tariffs

Could an invasion of Taiwan be the chicoms next move?

Its a common tactic of dictatorships under pressure

They should take Taiwan now as they have been screwing a Merica for years on trade.

 

[konradv]

China is risking losing a large chunck of US market share to their competitors.

Friends of America don't have tariffs on Americans and Americans don't have tariffs on their friends.

What did the penguins ever do to America? I guess it’s Chinese fish from now on!

 

[Mac-7]

She is not "coming out of China" as you assume.

According to her bio she was born and raised in china

If she were living there now she would be in a prison where some doctor might harvest her liver

 

[Mac-7]

And you have no real basis for evaluating what she said, because you don't know anything about China or trade policy.

How do you know I know nothing about china?

 

[AZrailwhale]

No, because the British took it from them, that's the point.

There are only 3800 people living on those Islands. They can be relocated for far cheaper than what the UK spends defending it.

The Argies never settled the Falklands. The Brits have had a permanent population for nearly two hundred years. The islands also belong to the UK by right of discovery. The Argies never even tried to establish a claim until 1816 when Argentina tried to lay claim TO ALL SPAINISH TERRITORIES in the South Atlantic. This at a time when Argentina didn't even have a navy and had only existed as a country for days.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Then resettle them in England where they came from.

The cost of the Falkland's War in terms of both human lives and treasure far exceeded any value they had. For the Billion dollars the UK spent fighting the war, they could have given each Falklander a million dollars to resettle somewhere nice.

The odds are that the citizens of the Falklands families have been there longer than your family has been in the USA. Are you willing to be repatriated to whatever country your family emigrated from? It's exactly the same thing.

 

[Unkotare]

Okay. Then they should defend the Islands themselves with no help or support.

...

Like the Brits did with the Germans?

 

[JoeB131]

The Argies never settled the Falklands. The Brits have had a permanent population for nearly two hundred years. The islands also belong to the UK by right of discovery. The Argies never even tried to establish a claim until 1816 when Argentina tried to lay claim TO ALL SPAINISH TERRITORIES in the South Atlantic. This at a time when Argentina didn't even have a navy and had only existed as a country for days.

Point was, the British were willing to give the Islands to Argentina in the 1970s.

The odds are that the citizens of the Falklands families have been there longer than your family has been in the USA. Are you willing to be repatriated to whatever country your family emigrated from? It's exactly the same thing.

Well, given my great grandmother was Native American, that's unlikely. (Of course, my dad was an immigrant fresh off the boat.)

Again, two bald men fighting over a comb.

 

[gipper]

Xi is being squeezed by the trump tariffs

Could an invasion of Taiwan be the chicoms next move?

Its a common tactic of dictatorships under pressure

 

[gipper]

How do you know I know nothing about china?

Can you refute the following?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Xi is being squeezed by the trump tariffs

Could an invasion of Taiwan be the chicoms next move?

Its a common tactic of dictatorships under pressure

Xi is counting on American Progressives to carry his battle to Trump

 

[gipper]

The odds are that the citizens of the Falklands families have been there longer than your family has been in the USA. Are you willing to be repatriated to whatever country your family emigrated from? It's exactly the same thing.

Americans will literally back a genocide, look up at China WHILE STILL COMMITTING GENOCIDE, and finger wag about Tiananmen Square. - Caitlin Johnstone

 

[Leo123]

China has born watching closely for about 50 years. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who seems to see it. I must say that if ever there was anyone who deserved bitten in the ass hard by China, it is the United States for spending the last two generations busting our hump to create them.

Nixon started it and everyone since then really dropped the ball.

 

[Rambunctious]

As far as I'm concerned China started the war when they released the coronavirus.... we and the world just haven't hit back yet... now we will...

 

[AZrailwhale]

Can you refute the following?

You have a very short memory. In our lifetime China has invaded Tibet, Mongolia, Vietnam and committed forces to many other wars, not to mention taking economic advantage of most of the third world and stealing intellectual property from every first world nation.

 

[gipper]

You have a very short memory. In our lifetime China has invaded Tibet, Mongolia, Vietnam and committed forces to many other wars, not to mention taking economic advantage of most of the third world and stealing intellectual property from every first world nation.

Please compare and contrast their actions with the US and your nation of Israel?

 

[Mac-7]

Xi is counting on American Progressives to carry his battle to Trump

Exactly

Having 5th Column inside the enemy camp is a big asset for the chicoms

 

[Mac-7]

Americans will literally back a genocide, look up at China WHILE STILL COMMITTING GENOCIDE, and finger wag about Tiananmen Square. - Caitlin Johnstone

I never heard of Caitlin Johnstone before so I looked her up

In her own words she’s left of center on most issues and very anti American

The last part is only my opinion, because she strongly denies it as most libs do

She hates trump and hates Israel so she’s no friend of mine

Sort of Mac1958 with an Australian accent

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Exactly

Having 5th Column inside the enemy camp is a big asset for the chicoms

Kudlow called him Emperor Xi because, like Zelenskyy he’s overstayed his official term

Kudlow also said it’s pointless to discuss Trade with China because they lie and cheat. He was part of the Trade delegation to China during Trump’s first term and said he’d never take the job again

 

[Cellblock2429]

Xi is being squeezed by the trump tariffs

Could an invasion of Taiwan be the chicoms next move?

Its a common tactic of dictatorships under pressure

/----/ I've heard that analysis over the last few days. It's the last desperate act of survival by a tyrant.