Taiwan may be more important to the U.S. than Ukraine

[jwoodie]

Despite all of the self-serving yammering about making the Ukraine/Europe/World safe for democracy, a more substantive issue may be freedom of the seas if China invades Taiwan. This would allow China to claim its territorial waters extend more than 200 miles off its mainland coast. Combined with its island building program in the South China Sea, this could portend a new Southeast Asia Co-prosperity Sphere that was hostile/aggressive to foreign shipping.

Sound familiar? Would the U.S. then be willing/able to maintain a huge naval presence in this area, or would it cede control to our largest supplier/creditor/adversary? Would we then declare the Eastern Pacific to be an American lake? How would this scenario end up? Should we defend Taiwan at all costs?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Way more important.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Why is Nancy Pelosi planning to visit Taiwan?

Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan raises concerns China might interfere with airspace, US official says | CNN Politics

Biden administration officials are concerned that China could seek to declare a no-fly zone over Taiwan ahead of a possible visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as an effort to upend the trip, potentially raising tensions even further in the region, a US official told CNN.

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This makes no sense at all. The simplest explanation I can think of is that her husband must have some kind of stock option or other investment that would go up in value if there is increased tension over Taiwan.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why is Nancy Pelosi planning to visit Taiwan?

Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan raises concerns China might interfere with airspace, US official says | CNN Politics

Biden administration officials are concerned that China could seek to declare a no-fly zone over Taiwan ahead of a possible visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as an effort to upend the trip, potentially raising tensions even further in the region, a US official told CNN.

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This makes no sense at all. The simplest explanation I can think of is that her husband must have some kind of stock option or other investment that would go up in value if there is increased tension over Taiwan.

Why is Nancy Pelosi planning to visit Taiwan?

Why not?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Why is Nancy Pelosi planning to visit Taiwan?

Why not?

Oh.. how about the enormous cost to the taxpayer, the fact that her own president thinks it's a bad idea at least in so far as he is still capable of thinking anything and that we have a crime crises in our country, in which she is the leading figure in one of the three branches of government?

She would need something pretty important to override those concerns, so what might they be?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Oh.. how about the enormous cost to the taxpayer, the fact that her own president thinks it's a bad idea at least in so far as he is still capable of thinking anything and that we have a crime crises in our country, in which she is the leading figure in one of the three branches of government?

She would need something pretty important to override those concerns, so what might they be?

If it tweaks the commies, reminds them that Taiwan is a real country, it's probably worth it.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Despite all of the self-serving yammering about making the Ukraine/Europe/World safe for democracy, a more substantive issue may be freedom of the seas if China invades Taiwan. This would allow China to claim its territorial waters extend more than 200 miles off its mainland coast. Combined with its island building program in the South China Sea, this could portend a new Southeast Asia Co-prosperity Sphere that was hostile/aggressive to foreign shipping.

Sound familiar? Would the U.S. then be willing/able to maintain a huge naval presence in this area, or would it cede control to our largest supplier/creditor/adversary? Would we then declare the Eastern Pacific to be an American lake? How would this scenario end up? Should we defend Taiwan at all costs?

. “Until the election of President Donald J. Trump, the People’s Republic of China was close to achieving many of its objectives. Under Trump, the United States has taken a major shift by recognizing in ways that were never done in the past that Beijing is engaged in an undeclared war- played out in the economic, technological and cyber realms.”
Bill Gertz, “Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy,” p. 5


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