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Double talk…..🙄

I find it amazing how the credible news portals sometimes perpetuate propagandas by spitting out exactly what an autocrat states without putting any weighted counter argument to present a perspective.

It’s only a matter of time… probably this year

This sounds a bit like the abusive stalker ex-boyfriend who just can't realize she just isn't into him and he should just walk away. And just like that scenario, I hope someone will step in and set him straight before he does something harmful.

You can be sure with Biden they will walk right in, as they own his family and especially Biden himself! They helped we are about to turn our back on a ally! I lived on that island! The free people do not deserve this!

WWII taught us that appeasing authoritarian regimes doesn't work. The U.S., along with our allies in the West, need to ensure international norms are abided by in Asia-Pacific.

Fuck nooooo, ha!

Taliban this week revealed that it has no plans to work with U.S. forces in combatting extremism in Afghanistan, a revelation that comes as the group plans a meeting with U.S. officials following the chaotic American withdrawal in August

Formosa is not China, Xi is rewriting history as distraction in Chinese debt

PLA jets are not “patrolling around Taiwan,” they’re flying around China. Stop stoking the flames of war.

Look what happened to Hong Kong under the treaty PRC signed where HK should have kept its existing governing / economic systems separate from the mainland under the principle of “one country, two systems” unchanged for 50 years after 1997 (= 2047). 😂

Hey, WinnXie the Flu. How can you ‘re-unify’ something that was never a part of you? It’s actually called ‘invading’.

After the Afghanistan failure what’s to stop him?

Sad to see npr has became another propaganda mouthpiece for the admin's anti-china media campaign in the likes of reuters... it used to be the most independent n least biased new media in the US. Now just read the tweet titles n you can see the voice of cia/dod/wh/state dept. Sad

Taiwan is one of the top producers of semiconductors and has the technical capability of making the most technically advanced microprocessors in existence today. It would benefit us to keep China’s grubby little fingers off of it.

Taiwanese people are nice. Not like the loud, rude, spitting mainland Chinese. Yuk.

Is there some reason I don't get why they don't just kiss and make up? Worried about foreign powers installing military bases?

The key point here is that he intends to take Taiwan. All else is bullshit.

Hong Kong —- Taiwan —- Philippines —- Australia? Reminds me of 1939 all over again.

So you agree they're separate

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US special forces secretly training troops in Taiwan – reportAbout two-dozen US service members have trained Taiwanese ground and maritime forces 'for at least a year,' amid China's rising verbal threats against the island ally of Washington – report Unlike Afghanistan these people will actually fight by American training LoL. Then they might still be worth their salt because the longer they train and resource you the faster you collapse. Like Afghans
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