I’d genuinely love if this went somewhere.
It would be interesting, as someone who lives in the American Empire, where we’re constantly told about how ‘evil’ China is, and how much Taiwanese citizens ‘hate’ the mainland, to see Taiwan’s inevitable demise be not from invasion, nor from imperialist forces accelerating tensions, but from within.
A Taiwanese military coup in the favour of PRC would be difficult for western journalists to report on honestly, so - of course - the narrative on it will be about “communist incursion” in the Taiwanese military. But westerners who understand that the CCP isn’t funding nor accelerating tensions will be forced to reconcile with the truth. Chinese communism is the only way forwards, the PRC will be the oxen team that pulls the wagon of humanity into the future.
Another aspect is that it would preclude any sort of armed conflict that US is hoping for. Their whole strategy relies on using Taiwan as the forward base for their operations there. If Taiwan all of a sudden becomes hostile there’s no other beachhead they can use.
If China gets power over Taiwain, they get safe access to the Pacific with their ships and planes. I think that would be the main game changer, as they could target all US forces and their supply lines.
Yeah, I think US strategists lose a lot of sleep over that scenario.
I think the PRC is pursuing the best strategy, not to rush the return of Taiwan, and to continue to deepen economic ties with the US, in order to make military conflict undesirable… at least for a decade or two when the US can’t flex its military anymore in the south china sea.
Slow and steady, not taking the bait and rushing into a costly military standoff.
Yeah, I completely agree. There is no rush here and no reason to escalate unless US starts putting bases in Taiwan again. US global influence is rapidly declining as well so it will be harder and harder for them to prop up Taiwan or rally allies for the project.
A remake of hunt for red october, but this time its capitalist military leaders defecting to a communist country.
I know you know this, but Taiwan’s territorial claims are an absurd right-wing fantasy, do they really think they’re gonna take back Mongolia, and parts of Russia and India?
