China launched its most extensive war games around Taiwan on Monday to showcase Beijing’s ability to cut off the island from outside support in a conflict, testing Taipei’s resolve to defend itself and its arsenal of U.S.-made weapons.
The Eastern Theatre Command said it had deployed troops, warships, fighter jets and artillery for its “Justice Mission 2025” exercises to encircle the democratically governed island, conduct live fire and simulated strikes on land and sea targets, and drills to blockade Taiwan’s main ports.
The live-firing exercises will continue on Tuesday across a record seven zones designated by China’s Maritime Safety Administration, making the drills the largest to date by total coverage and in areas closer to Taiwan than previous exercises. The military had initially said artillery firing would be confined to five zones.
The USA routinely does military exercises in the Taiwan strait. China has a right to defend itself from US+Taiwan aggression.
And to defend myself I simulate how to invade my neighbor country… Sure… “Defense”…
The post literally says:
Cutting Taiwan from US support in case of conflict is famously NOT invasion, it’s defense against US attacks.
To cut off the island from outside support in a conflict with…who?
Conflict =/= invasion, though?
So we’re in agreement with the obvious fact that China is running drills to cut off Taiwan from external aid in case it has a conflict with Taiwan, right?
In response to Taiwan buying $11bn in US weapons, China carries out a military exercise in which it simulates a Taiwan encirclement to prevent it from US military involvement, yes
US military involvement in case of what?
We gotta make sure this passes the clown captcha test. Otherwise it has the same energy as “the American civil war was just for states rights”
In case of military conflict between Taiwan and China, what’s your point? You just assume that it’s a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan because you’re a propagandized westerner, but it could very well be an economic blockade of the China sea by US + regional puppets
Sure, buddy… And Russia is also just defending themselves from NATO by invading Ukraine.
Even Xi said, he wants to rule Taiwan, if necessary, with military force, so please quit the bullshit… Thanks.
Can you provide a source for this? I’m very interested
Honestly it’s a reading between the lines. Xi says:
https://www.cfr.org/blog/what-xi-jinpings-major-speech-means-taiwan
The “peaceful reunification” is aspirational, not practical. The practical is “take resolute action to utterly defeat any attempt toward ‘Taiwan independence’” and we see that with this military action. Consensus among CCP members is that peaceful reunification is unlikely to happen and that military force will be required (see the book “Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers” by a member of the CCP).
So, he absolutely did NOT say that, huh, whaddya know!
The literal words of Xi Jinping: “advance peaceful national reunification”
Lemmy libs: “[he] said he wants to rule Taiwan, if necessary, with military force”
Like I said, I recommend reading literature on the matter from CCP members to get more context on the matter. It won’t help you shit post for karma but it does help one make sense of things.
Literature on the matter from CCP members is irrelevant to the original claim that “Xi Jinping said he wants to rule Taiwan, if necessary, with military force”, though. You can make excuses for disinformation if you want because it suits your point of view, but that’s literally false.
Oh, so like when the USA does the same to Venezuela and Cuba it’s just self defense like Trump says?
The difference being that the USA actively murders hundreds of thousands of people in both countries through economic sanctioning, whereas China has enacted no economic blockade and is in fact Taiwan’s largest economic partner.
Yes, that is good of China to not act like the USA. Which is why it is concerning when they start to act like a more competent version of the USA.
You do know that the world isn’t black and white, right? Both sides can be bad …
Both sides can be bad, doesn’t mean both sides are equally bad. China hasn’t carried out a military action in 4 decades.
So they should get to annex one little country, as a treat? Lol
(Also depending how you define military action, thats false. They keep having border scuffles with India for starters.)
But China has not annexed Taiwan, you’re talking in hypotheticals. If China invades Taiwan tomorrow, maybe we can discuss that, but as of now China hasn’t done anything like that.
“I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”
“I’m just commenting the letter N. I don’t know what the next commenter might reply!”
“No, of course our reactor needs pure uranium. But it’s for peaceful purposes.”
By your logic, really you shouldn’t complain no matter how close our vastly superior stealth bombers fly to that shitty dam.
China is literally doing this in response to Taiwan escalating by purchasing $11bn in US weapons, it’s specified on the article itself. China did not start this
Why TF would they do exercises about how to blockade the island, then?
Because, as the article itself that OP linked says, Taiwan just purchased $11bn in US weapons?
Gee. I wonder why you’d suddenly buy weapons…maybe because you’re being threatened by the neighboring country?
Just to make sure you’re logically consistent: you support North Korea’s policy of strong militarization in defense against US + SK? Or is this something you reserve to US allies?
The amount of anti-China programming in this comments section is crazy. Thanks for setting the record straight
Yeah, there is the aggressor and the defender and they are equally bad!!!1111111