https://twitter.com/GlobalPressCorp/status/1793582473806569860
The Taiwanese Coast Guard and Chinese navy are currently having a standoff in the Taiwan Strait pic.twitter.com/Bj5lMsN5oC
— Global Press (@GlobalPressCorp) May 23, 2024
I for one welcome our new Chinx overlords.
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Can someone explain the whole China and Taiwan situation. Doesnt China own Taiwan? Why are they always in a pissing contest with them? Like China own HK and shut down their little "revolution" a few years ago. But what makes Taiwan different? I'm American so is it like if Puerto Rico didn't want to be a territory anymore?
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Old chinese government went to taiwan in exile
Then new and old chinese governments tried to diplomatically solve the issue of both of them claiming to be china, so the 201iq diplomats agreed that they are both china, and both countries belong to china because they are china meaning there is no dispute they agree taiwan is part of china (what's left unsaid is which government exactly is china)
This is why there are political implications when claiming they're different countries
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technically Taiwan is the legitimate government of china, but they failed to put down the communist rebellion in Beijing
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China doesn't own Taiwan it's essentially its own independent country but the rest of the world just goes along with China's delusion on paper while also treating Taiwan like it's an independent country.
HK was actually owned by China even when the Bongs controlled it.
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Long China civil war commies vs nationalists 1940s nationalists pushed out of mainland china onto taiwan commies too poor and stupid to finish war by invading taiwan nationalists too stuborn and stupid to declare independence instead claiming sovereignty over all of china then 80 years taiwan still not controlled by commies but they claim it even though it functions as independent nation
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I see
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I've never seen a paragraph that was a single sentence. Go back to school.
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Everytime i get within 500 feet of a school i get arrested
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Apply yourself
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Wow Zoomers really are r-slurred
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Yes
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I'm not sure, sorry.
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Taiwanese are leaving the island to live rent free in the minds of the Chinese, thus achieving the dream of one China
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Markets seem to be pricing this in, but nothing overly dramatic so far.
I generally assess the seriousness of geopolitical stuff on market action.
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Taiwan doesn't even claim to be an independent country. Who fricking cares, we should just take all the machinery from the silicone chip plants and fricking leave.
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i mean i kind of want to see China lose their entire navy to anti-ship missiles so i can laugh at them.
China knows they can't invade taiwan.
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If you don't think China has the ability to absolutely overwhelm Taiwan you're an even bigger r-slur than any one here ever thought.
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They do not, even the PLA has admitted this.
Invading a country via the sea is incredibly complex and demands an absurd logistics capability. China is not at this point yet.
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Hundreds of thousands of american boys are ready to lay down their lives so that island chinks dont have to be ruled by chinks
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In the sense they claim to be the legitimate rulers of China, which is infinitely more dramatic
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Pretty sure they actually claim even more territory than PRC. Like parts of Mongolia and shit. They would actually cause a multi front Wario they could.
E. That auto correct
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I genuinely don't understand why the US didn't do that whenever the frick china started threatening taiwan. Like just use your infinite ameribucks to make chips at home?
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Because TMSC or whatever was never the reason the US recognises Taiwan. It's about preventing China from being able to blockade the Pacific the way Japan tried to do in the Second World War by keeping their navy stuck behind that rock they call Taiwan.
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The US doesn't recognize Taiwan though. They don't even claim to be an independent nation, they claim to be the legitimate government of both the mainland and the island. Just like the PRC does.
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It's about keeping china hemmed in from the pacific, Taiwan and Japan are just american aircraft carriers
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DEI rules being tied to the government subsidies given to Samsung and TSMC to make the chip plants in the US is causing seething and malding because theres only so many jobs for dummies in this particular field.
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i mean it wouldnt be an issue if we spent more money teaching javascript to africans
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God if only
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Its just some chink psyop account and no-name bullahit engagement farmer lmao.
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Frick man I'm tweaking
is this actually 
prelude to war or do they do this often?
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It's rather frequent. Considering May 20 was the day the new president was sworn in, I would be more surprised if they didn't try to flex their muscle some more.
And it worked, too. Several pro-unification talking heads are blaming this on the new president, urging him to show some goodwill to the PRC to deescalate.
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I know that they make standoffs and even violate airspace rather frequently, just no idea if this is any different.
I was sure nothing was gonna
happen 
when Putin 
started amassing troops near Ukrainian 
border 
because that too happens often and means nothing, yet here we are.
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He should call their bluff and blow some chinese ships up.
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I don't think most Taiwanese would back that action, since Taiwan absolutely needs U.S. intervention to have any chance of survival, and firing the first shot is not a good look.
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depends on what you mean by intervention. China lacks the capability to invade Taiwan in any real way, they can cause damage, but the losses would be staggering.
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They lack the capability for now. They aren't just sitting on their asses and not building up their military strength.
Taiwanese military can try to improve themselves all they want, which they have despite having tons of problem, but it will be the might of the U.S. military to beat back the PLA.
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Chinks are famous for caring its subject's lives and not being literal human zerglings
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Id guess they will when they physically do not have boats left to even try an invasion.
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The Taiwanese plan is now to blow up the Three Gorges Dam in the event of an invasion.
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taiwan doesn't have nukes, though they are dumb as frick if they don't have a secret project going now, since Ukraine proved that the US does not have the attention span to reliably support a defensive war against a superpower.
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Don't think you need a nuke to blow up a dam
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From the outside you pretty much do
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
maybe the size matters, idk
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Even if Taiwan succeeded with that Hail Mary of an attack it would only guarantee the whole island ends up rendered a smoldering irradiated rock instead just being ruled by a moderately more authoritarian chink government.
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Thats the point?
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Would be fantastic for chinese drama.
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No idea lol. ASSUME THE WORST.
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I say this as a feminist ally sadly
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Yet both of us are shitposting right
now
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I am in my bunker tho (i dug a wronghole into the ground and covered it with tinfoil).
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mfw i wronghole the earth
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It's more of a squint off
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I can't wait to join the space front (melee weapons are viable again since guns don't work in a vacuum)
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Darn u play all those bideo games and u still r-slurred
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Won't it be the opposite? Nowhere to hide in space so everything is long-range missiles
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missiles and lasers because there is no air so lasers can be much more effective without air distorting the beam
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Guns would work exceptionally well, I'd think. There is already oxidizer in the shell. No atmosphere means unlimited range.
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Recoil will be fun
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make the guns shoot forwards and backwards so the recoil cancels out
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they already invented recoilless rifles back in wwII, which basically does that but there is no other projectile the gun is open on the back and propellant is blasted out to balance recoil it will kill friendlies standing near the back of it
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In space, the enemy could be anywhere. Better to have it shoot both ways.
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You have just invented rockets
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Can't they just design a gun that pumps oxygen into the chamber when the trigger is pulled?
Apparently bullets already have their own oxidizer, so it should work. Well, as long as you are anchored anyway.
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dindu
nuffin 
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Pls let this be real
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They're just gauging the military response to better prepare, it's the next one that will be WW3.
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I thought this was gonna be a tweet about Britney Spears and the conservatorship.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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WE WILL DIE ON THE BEACHES TO LIBERATE BRITNEY FROM HER FAMILY.
Even tho its fake Britbrit:
!schizomaxxxers
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She looks like Brittany Murphy right before she died in that one pic
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Chinese "aircraft carriers" have ramps lmao
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Everyone beside the US uses ramps. Even the britbongs
why are you guys r-slurred?
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Yes, we know that nearly everyone in the world is low T and flies shitty planes
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Here me out. Mazda Miata carrier.
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Yeah listen to r-slurred anons on twitter. I'm sure they wouldn't play things up for sensationalism.
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But how does fake ww3 effect my life savings investment in dramacoin ๐ค๐ค.
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get ready for the draft guys
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wtf I love asthma now
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we will just put you down as a suicide bomber then
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As long as I get to keep my job I'll gladly embrace conflict anywhere that's not my country :D
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Are you in a NATO country, Russia, Pakistan, India or either of the Koreas?
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least based cherry comment
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two ships floating near eachother? IT'S WW3!
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no but china also said " WE VERY MAD YOU BETTA WATCH OUT! CHINA NUMBA WAN" for the 7000000th time
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IM SORRY I THOUGHT THIS WAS RDRAMA NOT RLOGICAL.
WHY MUST YOU RUIN MY LARP YOU ANTI LARP BIGOT.
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maybe next time you'll leave the thinking to the men, honey.
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I just know I'm going to find out about WW3 on rdrama.net
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Just imagine all the nuclear shadows of people on their phones.
Not like all the people living in the moment when the bomb hit Hiroshima.
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Holy shit you are literally the most vile person that 1 have ever had the displeasure of interacting with on the internet. You might just be my first real block, T hate you with all of my guts. Every time there is a post about a cute little animal on the front page you're always the #1 report about wanting to frick its brains out. I hate you. And when it's not an animal post you're just begging for unbans. Why don't you take your bans with pride like me and stop being a whining b-word?
Snapshots:
https://twitter.com/GlobalPressCorp/status/1793582473806569860:
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