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Don't 'play with fire' over TW - motif 07-29 19:35 | 4653 bytes | link +40 Rate

It is just some sort of trade negotiation tactic. Both nations are bluffing - chaingun 08-01 19:42 | 53 bytes | +1 Rate
- A potential war is not a trade negotiation tactic. It is like threateni to kill - sinbad 08-02 00:45 | 642 bytes | Rate
Flights to Xiamen, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, TW have been cancelled - motif 08-01 17:04 | 1226 bytes | img Rate
That's why you don't use stiff engineers for Geopolitics. - sinbad 08-01 12:16 | 420 bytes | +1 Rate
- This is naive, there's a line to draw or else it won't end - motif 08-01 15:44 | 293 bytes | +2 Rate
  - Not naive. If you get triggered over trivial things, then - sinbad 08-02 00:28 | 1221 bytes | +1 Rate
    - Trying to get positive western PR is the most naive idea I've ever heard - motif 08-02 01:04 | 924 bytes | img +1 Rate
      - Who says Western PR [no text] - sinbad 08-02 03:38 | 0 bytes | Rate
  - There are already American troops in Taiwan training their military. - Canis Majoris 08-01 19:05 | 140 bytes | +1 Rate
    - I'm talking about Japan, Korea's level of troop presence - motif 08-01 19:08 | 103 bytes | +1 Rate
      - Both Mitch McConnell and Pelosi visited Ukraine in official capacity - sinbad 08-02 01:24 | 246 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        Ukraine is a soverign country, do you even have any logic? - motif 08-02 01:30 | 120 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        Not your stiff "logic". You compared US presence in Ukraine with China - sinbad 08-02 04:17 | 919 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        Didn't you listen to the protest against arms sales and so on? - motif 08-02 18:00 | 636 bytes |   Rate
Officially, TW is not in the itinerary - motif 07-31 18:55 | 2337 bytes | img +2 Rate
- I found it ludicrous when the yanks argued that China shouldn't get angry - swoosh 08-02 01:59 | 228 bytes | Rate
- maybe a couple of ways of looking at this whole episode - cyber horse 07-31 23:33 | 1511 bytes | +1 Rate
  - maybe there is even an third angle to view this? - cyber horse 07-31 23:47 | 798 bytes | +1 Rate
    - Think Tibet, Diaoyu island patrol, XJ, HK, S.China Sea islands - motif 08-01 00:23 | 305 bytes | +2 Rate
      - to clarify some more, nothing is going to happen == no war - cyber horse 08-01 04:14 | 94 bytes | +2   Rate
        
        Don't give in to what the Americans/West wants.. - Kevin.C 08-01 13:47 | 667 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        agree ... thought of something else about this specific episode - cyber horse 08-01 16:32 | 2023 bytes |   Rate
        
        Whether there'll be war depends on US or TW, ball will be in their park - motif 08-01 04:37 | 24 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        Really doubt that there will be a war over this political stunt. Maybe later. - cyber horse 08-01 18:08 | 476 bytes |   Rate
      - that is kind of like a given or expected outcome of this episode - cyber horse 08-01 03:57 | 477 bytes | Rate
Time to end this farce - swoosh 07-29 19:50 | 475 bytes | +1 Rate
- China is not ready to end this "farce". If it were, it would already have ended. - Canis Majoris 07-30 13:28 | 515 bytes | +2 Rate
  - Agree. China is doing just that 'cept US is ratcheting up the sh#t since Trump [no text] - sinbad 07-30 20:01 | 0 bytes | Rate
  - Re: China is not ready to end this "farce" - swoosh 07-30 14:20 | 1578 bytes | +2 Rate
    - Re: China is not ready to end this "farce" - Canis Majoris 07-31 13:17 | 3076 bytes | +1 Rate
      - Re: China is not ready to end this "farce" - swoosh 08-02 01:52 | 1464 bytes | +2   Rate
        
        It only matters if you think Taiwan will ever peacefully reunify with China. - Canis Majoris 08-02 15:34 | 931 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        on this I agree with you - swoosh 08-02 16:22 | 630 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        Stop and search would be universally condemned AND it would gain China nothing. - Canis Majoris 08-02 17:28 | 375 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        You were here! Re: Stop and search would be universally condemned AND ... - swoosh 08-02 17:41 | 803 bytes | +1   Rate
        
        Let me rephrase: it would be universally condemned by countries that actually - Canis Majoris 08-02 17:48 | 625 bytes |   Rate
        
        An article from Asian Times some time ago - Khan 08-02 02:29 | 16.2 KB | +1   Rate
        
        I don't think you need couple days for Xi's reaction - swoosh 08-02 03:43 | 158 bytes |   Rate
    - This is only realistic if the US collapses - -Corsair- 07-30 21:35 | 659 bytes | +1 Rate
      - Agree-Pelosi Taiwan trip simple bait.. - Kevin.C 07-31 12:18 | 962 bytes | Rate