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The multinationals want China’s cheap labor, Wall street wants to handle their money on commission, the Hunter Biden’s of the congress and the new administration are cutting deals for themselves.This was pretty interesting
What will the new administration do be China's little bitch?Timeline: U.S.-China Relations
The United States and China have one of the world’s most important and complex bilateral relationships. Since 1949, the countries have experienced periods of both tension and cooperation over issues including trade, climate change, and Taiwan.www.cfr.org
I cannot pretend to understand what benefit China gets by standing by North Korea,
but there must be something.
The Chinese don't want a democracy sitting on their border. It's assumed that S Korea would take a free N Korea under its wing and reform as a democratic Korea who's rich a powerful.
It would be right on China's border.
When the UN nearly won the Korean War, a million Chinese soldiers backed up N Korea to prevent a loss. Instead the war was a tie.
Biden is going to have a huge China problem. China is going to go after Taiwan knowing that Biden won’t respond. Foreign affairs is going to be ugly in the Biden / Harris era.
I cannot pretend to understand what benefit China gets by standing by North Korea,
but there must be something.
Well Imean look what China did to our elections. No question they could hurt Taiwan.Putin wreaking havoc across the United States is Xi's new model for Taiwan. Putin in Ukraine is a subtext of the same thing or similar to it.
How China will ‘break’ Taiwan with assassinations and cyberattacks — but no invasion
Rather than invade, China may try to “break” this tiny island through a brutal campaign including assassinations and cyberattacks.
China is unlikely to invade Taiwan but will use “all means short of war” to achieve reunification — including political assassinations, cyberattacks and even “stray” missiles into civilian areas — a new paper argues. The chilling scenario is laid out in a policy brief from the China Matters think tank, which argues that the long-held notion that the Chinese government would eventually “attack” Taiwan is an “outdated assumption”. Instead, China under President Xi Jinping would force Taiwanese leadership to start negotiating through a “protracted and intensive campaign”, which the US and others including Australia would find “extremely difficult to counter”.
China, rather than invade Taiwan, would “strive to create utter chaos in Taiwan and compel the government to accede to the PRC’s demands”. China could pressure major Taiwanese investors in China to sign a letter to the Taiwanese government calling for cross-Strait political talks — refusal to sign would result in “business difficulties”. Beijing could suddenly cut Taiwan’s air routes into China, forcing international airlines to choose between servicing the two countries. As tensions escalate, Taiwan’s stock market would plunge. The country’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party would come under pressure internally from PRC-backed media outlets and street protesters. “Street gangs would attack independence supporters,” she writes. “Confrontations between opposing political groups could become violent.” The most intense phase of the campaign would include a ramping up of disinformation efforts and a “barrage of sophisticated cyberattacks with the aim of first disrupting Taiwan’s electricity and telecommunications and then shutting them down”.
How China will ‘break’ Taiwan without invading (news.com.au)
The picture includes hard to counter rumors set loose in Taiwan's "darkened cities" severed from communications. The PLA Navy would then blockade Taiwan's harbors. So rest assured Taiwan, the US and allies in the region and in NATO are on the case.
For instance, if the U.S. Navy with air support and allies needed to blast their way into Taiwan's blockaded harbors and also land troops on Taiwan to restore order then that's what will occur. U.S. has wisely never ruled out first use either to include on the Chinese mainland. Indeed, the Chinese mythology of winning without firing a shot is -- as it's always been -- delusional. Dangerously so.
My commentary focused on Putin and Russia wreaking havoc in our 2016 election of the Potus and since, continuing to the present.Well Imean look what China did to our elections. No question they could hurt Taiwan.
Nothing to do with a democracy on the boarder, it has a lot of democracies on it boarder. It does not want a large US military presence on its boarder. North Korea provides a buffer.
I cannot pretend to understand what benefit China gets by standing by North Korea,
but there must be something.
I cannot pretend to understand what benefit China gets by standing by North Korea,
but there must be something.
How close is Japan to China?The benefit is not having the US or the UN at the Chinese border.
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