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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
The Biden administration sent formal notifications to the US Congress on Friday of the intent to sell radars, anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles to Taiwan.
The total value of the equipment and maintenance contracts adds up to just over $1.1 billion.
This is the fifth – and the largest so far – weapons package for Taiwan approved by the current US government.
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A moment of silence for Zelensky and his bankrupt state for not having a developed chip making industry to make them important enough for those arms.
Man’s got 10+ billion in military aid alone, putting them on the same level as Israel’s military budget. But it does seem their moment of fame is flowing away.
Don’t get me wrong Ukraine is definitely still important to Western Imperialists, just not as much as their missile base and chip making factory right off of China’s coast.
Solid plan to piss off the biggest supplier of its goods.
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My understanding is that most of the people in Taiwan favour the status quo (eventual peaceful reunification while retaining high autonomy), so hopefully they’ll refuse to fight the PLA
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Selling off old/outdated gear for the same price as the next generation cutting edge stuff lol
Another day, another billion dollars senselessly thrown into a hole by the US. Wake me back up when they quit their streak
Telegram tells me I’m not allowed to view your source du to state censorship.
Protip: Don’t use the Telegram version available from playstore or appstore. They do have some limitations required by these western tech giants. Instead use the open source Nekogram or the one available from the Telegram Website which is uncensored
Neither of these work. Its also noteworthy that I’m using a huawei device so that I never went through google or Iphones app store in the first place. But downloading and installing from the links you provided makes no difference. Same error message.
You’ll probably need a proxy of some kind (e.g. Tor)
Probably something to look for that @fruityloop@lemmygrad.ml has pointed out above!!?
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I just tested it now and it does that based on the country of the phone number associated with your account. The account with an american phone number blocked it lol. Using a VPN doesn’t make a difference because I tested that as well.
weapons of what quality and effectiveness?
Wouldnt it be so fuckin funny if Taiwan was a military honeypot? Like this whole Taiwan mess was just a ploy for the PLA to have American weapons in Taiwan to use against the US navy?
UNO Reverso Cardo
casual warmongering
Why is Taiwan part of China?
Not bad faith, just am not up on the history and China’s side of the issue.
Taiwan has been part of China far longer than US has even existed. During the civil war after the communists won the nationalists fled to Taiwan and set up a fascist dictatorship and said they represent all of China. Up until the Shanghai Communique in the 1970s this fascist dictatorship was the sole legal representation of China, but one of the terms to China’s opening up was the US recognizes mainland China (PRC) as the sole legal representative and they agreed at least legally that Taiwan is a part of the PRC. Since then Taiwan has liberalized politically and economically but are now more than ever a total US puppet. The US has done basically everything short of legally recognizing Taiwan, sending massive amounts of weapons, having US troops training Taiwan troops, despite being a very different overall context in the US eyes Taiwan is like China’s Ukraine. They don’t give a fuck about the people there and will fight China to the last Taiwanese just like they’re willingly letting thousands die in Ukraine. Taiwan is also very important economically, with control over the taiwan strait probably being more important than Taiwan itself.
I thought Taiwan was a part of China but NOT the PRC?
Unless I’m misunderstanding some terminology, “China” includes the mainland as well as various partially autonomous regions like Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and the PRC is the legitimate government of China according to themselves and almost every other country. The government on Taiwan claims that they (“ROC”) are the legitimate government of all of China (and some additional territory, IIRC), which is obviously BS
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Taiwan itself says they’re part of China, they just disagree about who’s actually China. It’s the remnants of the KMT, the fascists who got kicked out by the revolution.
You should know that Taiwan calls themselves “Republic of China” and Taiwan’s official capital is Nanjing, which is now controlled by PRC
I’ve done some reading now and am going to watch some videos provided.
One China.
Thanks
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfaXwBLLDjU
Check this series out about why China’s borders are the way they are. As @aworldtowin pointed out, it’s been part of China let’s longer than the US has even been a nation.
Thanks!
Our ruling class is holding everyone hostage.
It’s the Blue MAGA libs out there, cheering this on, that gets me. Thousands of people who still think Trump is the biggest news in the world are a-okay with starting a war with China for no reason.
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Gonna start making paper planes and selling them to Taiwan at exorbitant prices.
Hey, if the US can do it…
Yes you really can. They need everything they can get if they’re really planning to stand and face against Mainland China
