USA China Cold War

Rassil Krishnan

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Mainland Chinese after a hot reception to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan recently have quietened down. That war rhetoric and everyday threats from China are gone. The Chinese were worried that they may not win and also loose their prestige which has been carefully built over past 20 years. Yet the most important reason the Chinese did not start the fight was that they value their one trillion dollar trade with the West. If the war starts that trade and investment will leave and once it leaves, it is never returning. That is too much to loose hence they have no other choice left but to postpone the invasion of Taiwan. Now this may never happen in our lifetime.

This is a victory for Taiwan and US, without firing a US gun. Chinese have lost their face. There is a huge pro-China lobby in the US based on the Wall Street profits that will keep on supporting Chinese but Pelosi visit turned the clock other way around. What happens next 5 years or 10 years…. Nobody knows.
to much damage in the western world to sustain anything and the damage seems to be setting deeper,no politician,even trump or any hero can stop this rot until they are serious about it and go deep which no politican is smart and serious enough to do in the west.

china's mistake which is correctable was that it is going a bit to fast,it just needs to wait 5-10 more years for the west to really soften up and then try.
 

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Chinese Military Recruitement Ad

US Army Recruitement Ad (Woke as f$$$)

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if military ads would have win wars both Russia won war on Ukraine and china made Taiwan as their part, we live in real world where what ever the ads shows doesn't matter, the real combat effectiveness unchallenged for USA even they post pathetic LGBT Ads
 

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I hope US keeps up with its law makers visits to Taiwan. It will seriously reduce airframe lives of PLAAF planes.
All they appear to be doing at the moment is cross the "median" line and fly back as its kabaddi. Nice going!
Really?
Don't their pilots need normal training hours? They have over 300 planes deployed over there. In the past, these pilots have to carry out their training inside the mainland, now they finally get the chance to do their training in the air field where they are supposed to fight the war.

On the other hand, Taiwanese Independence belief has been building upon 2 assumptions:
1. Mainland will not dare to attack;
2. US will come to help if war starts.

Now the first one is finally broken when you see the other side's jets showing up every few days.
The second one becomes skeptical if US doesn't match Chinese by increasing their own military activities.
If they do, they will have seriously reduce the service lives of their own planes and ships. Remember, mainland China is only less than 200 km away from Taiwan, the most closest base for US forces is around 600km.
 

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Really?
Don't their pilots need normal training hours? They have over 300 planes deployed over there. In the past, these pilots have to carry out their training inside the mainland, now they finally get the chance to do their training in the air field where they are supposed to fight the war.

On the other hand, Taiwanese Independence belief has been building upon 2 assumptions:
1. Mainland will not dare to attack;
2. US will come to help if war starts.

Now the first one is finally broken when you see the other side's jets showing up every few days.
The second one becomes skeptical if US doesn't match Chinese by increasing their own military activities.
If they do, they will have seriously reduce the service lives of their own planes and ships. Remember, mainland China is only less than 200 km away from Taiwan, the most closest base for US forces is around 600km.
I have renewed confidence in Taiwan defending itself based on the Ruski-Ukraine war. Ukraine shares a long land border with Russia and has held them off for 6+ months, against a much vaunted and overwhelming Russian army - the successor of the Red Army which pummeled the Wehrmacht into submission almost single handedly. Everything else in WW2 was a sideshow in comparison.

PLA has to cross 200KM+ strait to get to Taiwan and will have to take murderous losses! PLA/CCP might still win but I am very skeptical about their appetite for losses. If they take 20-30K losses like the Ruskis have, they might simply throw in the towel.
 

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Chinese Military Recruitement Ad

US Army Recruitement Ad (Woke as f$$$)

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And the PLA still backed down from woke Nancy Pelosi lol. Imagine if America was under trump and not woke, like it was in the 90s
 

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The desired effect of recruitment ads are to increase .. well recruitment . It's not a commentary on the capability of that military .. In that case the american recruitment is collapsing .


The US is desperately looking for another cannon fodder country in asia . (not Taiwan IMO they they exist for industrial capacity)
 

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