China flies record 56 warplanes toward self-ruled Taiwan

Make Taiwan a nuclear power. Let them f%ck with China like North Korea does with us whenever China tells them to do so

 

Maybe they will fly 57 next time. Much Ado about nothing.

 

Agreed.

What if anything should we do about it?
A strongly worded letter?

Rocket River

 

We already did, we strongly condemned china's actions. China in response also strongly condemned US selling weapons to Taiwan. And on and on we go

 

So Cuban missile crisis them?

I don't know how many nukes China has, but assume it's enough to make living in the aftermath really sucky.

 

stop broadcasting their Pro Basketball Teams on TV

 

China is an imperialist dictatorship.

 

China wouldn’t do anything directly and it would long term end China’s fantasy of controlling Taiwan. China would respond by arming or supporting some anti US entity… but once Taiwan has nukes, that changes the Chinese calculation.

 

yes

 

Pretty much this. This is just more sabre rattling from the PRC and likely has to do with the recent US, UK, Australia alliance. The PRC knows that any attempt to invade and occupy Taiwan might lead to a war that they could lose. They also know that such a move would crater the world and their economy.

In short war with the PRC is probably very remote but that doesn't mean they aren't going to make shows of force every now and then.

 

How would this be different from the Cuban missile crisis when Russia was transferring nukes right outside the USA? China would either blockade to prevent nukes or if it's something that's after the fact, they would be looking at first strike options which basically puts nuclear war as a very real possibility.

Yes, nukes in Taiwan changes the calculation from China doing a show of force, to China initiating MAD.

 

Yeah, but an excuse for hundreds of billions for non competitive military industrial complex profits.

 

Out of curiosity how many on the forum would be willing to have 1) a nuclear war or 2)personally go fight for Taiwan or send their sons and daughters, nephews and nieces to defend Taiwan?

 

can't take these clowns seriously. they can't even keep the lights on, forget about subjugating taiwan.

 

it is more about the adverse impact on their growing economy.

the PRC may be many things, stupid it is not.
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China is just saber rattling. The fact that they are as dependent on us as we are of them will keep us from ever having a real conflict.

The difference between China and Russia is that we don't need anything from Russia and the only reason the rest of the world deals with them is their oil and NG.