Can China invade Taiwan successfully?

who?

Interesting

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KMT pushes to massively slash defense budget just as Trump gets in calling for a huge budget increase.

Do the KMT want Taiwan to be part of China? I know DPP supporters say thatā€™s what they want, but was never sure whether itā€™s just hot air. But difficult to see it any other way here. Reducing the amount spent on defense just as Trump gets in power signals to the world that Taiwan isnā€™t serious and makes it less likely for the US or anyone else to help.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/17/taiwan-defense-spending-trump/

This is almost the equivalent to claiming that Americans are really British, it was their heritage after all, so they are British and there really isnā€™t such a thing as being an American, thatā€™s just a political construct.

Can I have some of whatever youā€™re smoking? Must be some good shit.

The Waishengren are free to go back and reclaim their lands. The rest decided they want to be here, instead of there and their ancestors were never leaders of any kind in China either.

Their government tried that before and thatā€™s why theyā€™re here. I donā€™t understand what you mean - you think your kidā€™s generation should try to take back the mainland?

Trump just appointed this guy to a senior position at the State Department.

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I had a quick scan of his tweets, he seems to ā€˜likeā€™ this drag queen theme, have to wonder if homophobia drives his position on Taiwan.

Or maybe he secretly loved his Taiwanese male classmate, but he hates himself for itā€¦ so it drove him to a white extremist / homophobia view point.

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Thereā€™s been a few prominent right-wing goons who saw a drag queen in dancing somewhere in the vicinity of Tsai Ing-wen and immediately decided the US should end all support for Taiwan.

Twisted world when the land of the free starts to resemble the taliban.

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Hereā€™s another

Theyā€™d better not see news of the sydney mardi grasā€¦ otherwise they might cancel the submarine deal with Australia.

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So these maga people hold these homophobic views to a point of it possibly effecting foreign policy and geopolitics. Yet, they fill auditoriums and sing YMCAā€¦ what am I missing, this doesnā€™t compute.

How does such a fuckwit get a position like that? Extremely disturbing.

His argument is also instantly disolved by looking at HK.

Yeah, but someone like this probably prefers the new authoritarian Hong Kong.

The guy thinks that he can give up Taiwan to China because a few people he hates exist, and then thinks China would even honour those ā€˜concessionsā€™

Make america gay already

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This will be his same reasoning with Taiwan if it ever comes down to it. Whether thereā€™s a profit in there somewhere for the US, or youā€™re on your own.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1889094509713031207

Isnā€™t there an argument that Taiwan was/is actually the USā€™s after the war, it should have been a UN protectorate, and the KMT was only administering it before they took it over completely?
I expect Trump to roll out this theory any day

https://www.taiwanus.net/roger/essay_en2.htm

https://www.taiwanbasic.com/key/dc/tw_insul6.htm

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