Taiwan and China thread.

[Freakbro]

Looks like China are using soft power to capitalise on Trump screwing up relations within all their previous alliances, inc Taiwan.

Cheng Li-wun: Taiwan opposition Kuomintang leader visits China for expected meeting with Xi Jinping

Cheng Li-wun said she "gladly accepted" Xi Jinping's invitation and hopes to be a "bridge for peace".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[VincentHanna]

I think anyone who is banking on the US coming to their aid needs to have a rethink. Europe and here in the uk our governments have really dropped the ball. Getting rid of our industries and relying in foreign steel ect was a huge mistake. The chickens are now coming home to roost and it'll be us common people who will suffer. Humans will never learn and always go for the shortsighted and easy options. Never any long term forward thinking

Worked for 70 odd years until they got a toddler in charge who only cares about money.

America also outsourced a lot of their industries to China.

Between 1999 and 2011, nearly six million U.S. manufacturing jobs were lost. A landmark study attributed approximately one million of those manufacturing job losses—and 2.4 million total job losses—to increased import competition from China

 

[NickK]

Plus when it's shot down there is no pilot to rescue

Autonomous with way points - a potential civilian airliner risk unless the radar and guardrails limit the target area.

 

[NickK]

I think anyone who is banking on the US coming to their aid needs to have a rethink. Europe and here in the uk our governments have really dropped the ball. Getting rid of our industries and relying in foreign steel ect was a huge mistake. The chickens are now coming home to roost and it'll be us common people who will suffer. Humans will never learn and always go for the shortsighted and easy options. Never any long term forward thinking

start by restricting the populist noise machines. Communication has always been the first attack of war.