In recent decades, the enormous economic growth of the Communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) has sustained a massive military buildup, bringing closer the day when the PRC might make real its threats to invade or blockade the island of Taiwan and subjugate it into a greater China. Since 1949, when Chinese Nationalists fled to Taiwan following their defeat in the Chinese civil war, the Republic of China (ROC) on this isle 110 miles from the Chinese mainland has developed from a military dictatorship into a peaceful and prosperous democracy, one of East Asia’s Tiger countries. PRC attempts to subdue what it regards as a renegade province would affect not just the human rights of the increasingly independent-minded Taiwanese people, but also a territory with enormous strategic and economic implications for the world. Retired United States Navy Commander Kirk Lippold, who commanded the destroyer USS Cole during Al Qaeda’s October 12, 2000, suicide bombing attack in Yemen, joined Conservative Casual Friday show host Andrew E. Harrod to discuss future Taiwan conflict scenarios and how the United States and allies should respond.
Infidel says
I’m just hoping that China’s economic turmoil dissuades it from any adventures similar to what Russia has been trying in Ukraine. If this can last until 2024, Taiwan should be good again. The next GOP government should terminate all relations w/ Beijing, and open up full diplomatic relations w/ Taiwan, and back that up w/ an escalated presence on Taiwan itself, as well as surrounding areas like Senkaku island off the Taiwan coast which belongs to Japan
gravenimage says
Infidel, I am amazed–and disgusted–that so many on both sides of the aisle laud Nixon for having kowtowed to the ChiComs while throwing democratic Taiwan under the bus. Just appalling–and Communist China has been taking advantage of this ever since.
gravenimage says
Taiwan’s Dire Straits
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No doubt communist China is emboldened by weakness in the West, just as Russia was in attacking Ukraine. I just hope that Russia bogging down in Ukraine gives China pause.
Walter Sieruk says
Pseudo “president” Joe Biden completely refuses to do anything many terrible things that Red China engages in, as in threats towards Taiwan. Biden absolutely will nothing even if he is able to. For Biden is the “lapdog” stooge tool and “useful idiot of Xi Jinping
For a number of sinister reasons, such as he admires the socialism / Communist ideology of mainland China.
Biden must also like the tyrannical oppressor of Communist China against its citizens since he absolutely is copying Red China’s imprisonment system of that regime’s tyrant Xi Jinping who has political prisoners who are held in cruel cells and treated terrible and denied their basis human rights.
For that Joe Biden has political prisoners from January 6, 2021, who are held in cruel cells and treated terrible and denied their basic human rights.
Another sinister reason that Biden will do nothing to help victims of Red China is because he is so horribly corrupt that he is willing accepts bribes from Xi Jinping and other high-ranking members of the ruling Communist party of China.
About that last point, the Bible reads “The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.”
Proverbs 17:23. [N. I. V.]