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© 2024 AFPChina says it has launched military drills around Taiwan
By Amber Wang and Sam Davies TAIPEI/BEIJING©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
28 Comments
JJE
Important to observe Taiwan has no UN-recognition and Beijing's claims to the province have solid foundation, particularly when it is consistent to what is happening elsewhere in the world with a wink and a nod from the collective west.
WiseOneIn Kansai
It is important to note that many many people regard Taiwan as a country. It has a government, it's own passport and a military. And the best part is that politicians/officials from many different and respectful countries visit Taiwan. China can do nothing about it but throw a childish tantrum. Wink!
isabelle
Typical China. Threatening a peaceful, free country just because its leader gives a speech that states the truth, rather than CCP lies. Lies which, I might add, we sadly also see on JT far too often.
Clearly your warnings don't work, CCP savages. Taiwan has already been independent for decades.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Just peaceful China never ever threatening war /s
isabelle
Still important to observe -- since you try this line every time -- that the reason Taiwan lacks formal UN recognition is precisely due to pressure/threat of aggression by the CCP. Were China governed by a reasonable, democratic entity, Taiwan would enjoy full recognition just like every other country.
As ever, the problem here is China, not Taiwan.
Only in CCP fantasy land.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Important to observe that Taiwan has more recognition than Russia's disgraces and just because this war might be legal, doesn't make it profoundly immoral and destructive, including for the PRC.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Yup, so peaceful.
Thankfully these are a joke.
Hiro S Nobumasa
China can bully Taiwan because both the USA and Japan refuses to give diplomatic recognition to the democratic Island Republic.
Shame on da-kine Washingjing and Tokyojing!
deanzaZZR
@Isabelle I guess you failed to read the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 from 1971 on the matter that reads, "Decides to restore all its rights to the People's Re-
public of China and to recognize the representatives
of its Government as the only legitimate representa-
tives of China to the United Nations, and to expel
forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from
the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all organizations related to it".
WiseOneIn Kansai
Well, if you say others fail to read the UN General Assembly Resolution 2758.
Why doesn't China follow the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The court ruled against China’s claims. The tribunal concluded that China’s nine-dash line had no legal basis under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
You can't have it both ways unless you're a hypocrite!
konjo4u
China feels like it needs to harass civilians to show legitimacy.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Sounds like a disgraceful measure pertaining to the China seats only. Says nothing about other seats.
isabelle
I guess you decided to parrot the standard CCP lie that Resolution 2758 refers to Taiwan being part of the PRC, when it does not. Typical.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2024/04/23/2003816809
TaiwanIsNotChina
And all of these being used by you needlessly to promote the MAGA.
Fos
The problem is the US refuses to change and accept the fact that it’s no longer the sole hegemon.
Asia needs China more than anything else, and does not want to be involved in a conflict because of the failing economic interests of United Stated of America.
China does not have any interest to wage a war, only Washington is strenuously trying to generate a propaganda to justify his intervention.
M1984FA
Just theatrics. The CCP has no intention of militarily attacking Taiwan; they bide their time and use slow influence. The only thing that would totally change the picture would be if the US was reckless enough to put bases and missiles in Taiwan, Cuba style.
quercetum
This is just for show imo but others are predicting something different. The real war is the economic and chips war but it’s not getting the coverage here because China is winning.
Samsung 40,000 layoffs, stock price plummeted by over 20%. Semiconductor companies outside of China including Taiwan’s are and will be struggling.
TaiwanIsNotChina
There are Chinese bases in Cuba. Are you saying the US should not do what China does?
TaiwanIsNotChina
He says on the article about China and Taiwan...
It is China looking for a conflict here. The US position has been unchanged for 40 years.
And yet it is China garbage flitting around Taiwan. Go figure.
isabelle
No-one needs a country that constantly threatens the region, steals territory and tech, rams ships, cyber-attacks, and conducts economic coercion and hostage diplomacy.
The only countries causing conflict around here are China and North Korea (and Russia, to a lesser extent).
Then, it should officially renounce the use of force, stop its aggression, get well back across the median line, and accept Taiwan's offer of dialogue.
Sadly, 1) It won't do this 2) Even if it did, it still couldn't be trusted.
TaiwanIsNotChina
That's not as confident as you have sounded previously. What changed?
isabelle
Pro-CCP nonsense, as usual.
China could have won, but Xi has spectacularly blown it. He's turned China from a country that the whole world was desperate to pour money into, to a pariah that others are actively decoupling from, forming alliances against, and banning tech exports to.
For instance, FDI from Taiwan -- the subject of the article -- dropped to 11.4%, from 83.8% in 2010. That is not "winning," but "losing."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/02/19/2003813752
Fos
isabelle
Isabelle, what media are you reading apart from US Military dispatches? Do US sanctions on electric cars, chips and so on ring a bell? Contrary on every legal case of international trade rules.
The continuous sales of military equipments to Taiwan to flare up tensions in the continent?
We don't need another WAR because of Washington economic interest, full stop.
isabelle
They are for national security reasons. This is allowed by the WTO.
In contrast, China's economic coercion (Japanese seafood being one example) directly contravenes WTO rules.
It is China's threat to annex Taiwan, and constant belligerence, that is causing the tensions. Taiwan requests equipment from the US because of China.
M1984FA
TaiwanIsNotChina
I have not heard of Chinese military bases with nuclear ballistic rockets in Cuba. Please quote your source.
If there were, I guarantee that whoever runs the govt in the US would react the way Kennedy did. The US still has the Monroe doctrine, but denies it to everyone else.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Are there US nuclear missiles anywhere on land in Asia? As for the base itself
https://apnews.com/article/china-cuba-spy-base-us-intelligence-0f655b577ae4141bdbeabc35d628b18f
Fascinating, so we have this secret red line but can't tell anyone. And somehow Cuba, Venezuela, and others have crossed it without consequences for decades.
quercetum
War in the Straights in the next two months? Dream on.
That picture and the article is to throw your attention elsewhere from the tech war and the economic war. It’s for Boomers who still think of D-Day.
There will not be a war the Straights.
JJE
Seems there is a level of confusion between an electronic surveillance facility and an offensive military base.