Secretary of State Antony Blinken: "We do not support Taiwan independence."
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Tinkerpeach
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China is close to taking it I think so what we support is meaningless
It’s not like we can stop them
It’s not like we can stop them
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
Blinken is a coward like his boss.
We won't protect Ukraine.
We won't protect Taiwan.
We'll find some tiny third world country to attack instead. And maybe we'll lose.
That's what happened when I was young.
I'd love to know of what our brain-dead nationalist chauvinists are so fucking proud.
Most of the world has to see us as pathetic pussies.
We are good at shooting each other, though.
I have to give us that.
We won't protect Ukraine.
We won't protect Taiwan.
We'll find some tiny third world country to attack instead. And maybe we'll lose.
That's what happened when I was young.
I'd love to know of what our brain-dead nationalist chauvinists are so fucking proud.
Most of the world has to see us as pathetic pussies.
We are good at shooting each other, though.
I have to give us that.
Tinkerpeach
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We can’t win a fight with China
floridafan
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China will not risk getting into a fight with the US over Taiwan
That's been United States policy since around the 1970s. It was part of the price for Nixon's rapprochement with communist china.
That's the reason Taiwan does not have a seat in the UN. They are not technically considered a legal, sovereign nation. They are a breakaway province of historical China.
Agreed. I think this is more about mining undersea resources than conquoring Taiwan. Besides, Chinese are patient. They'll just buy Taiwan in the long run. What they need now are mining rights in the South China Sea.
https://www.eia.gov/international/content/analysis/regions_of_interest/South_China_Sea/
"EIA estimates the South China Sea contains approximately 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in proved and probable reserves. Conventional hydrocarbons mostly reside in undisputed territory.
It is difficult to determine the amount of oil and natural gas in the South China Sea because of under-exploration and territorial disputes. Most current discovered fields cluster in uncontested parts of the sea, close to the shorelines of the coastal countries. EIA estimates there to be approximately 11 billion barrels (bbl) of oil reserves and 190 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas reserves in the South China Sea. These numbers represent both proved and probable reserves, making them closer to a high-end estimate. Energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, for example, estimates the sea to contain only 2.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent in proved oil and gas reserves.
In addition to proved and probable reserves, the South China Sea may have additional hydrocarbons in underexplored areas. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) analyzed the potential for undiscovered conventional oil and gas fields within several geologic provinces of Southeast Asia in 2010 as part of its World Petroleum Resources Assessment Project. The study included a significant area of the South China Sea, which the USGS estimates may contain anywhere between 5 and 22 billion barrels of oil and between 70 and 290 trillion cubic feet of gas in as-yet undiscovered resources (not including the Gulf of Thailand and other areas adjacent to the South China Sea). These additional resources are not considered commercial reserves at this time because it is unclear how economically feasible it would be to extract them.
As the USGS assessment did not examine the entire area, undiscovered resources could be greater. In November 2012, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) estimated the area holds around 125 billion barrels of oil and 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in undiscovered resources, although independent studies have not confirmed this figure."