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Taiwan's newly inaugurated president William Lai has called on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy.

He urged Beijing to replace confrontation with dialogue, shortly after being sworn in on Monday. 

He also said Taiwan would never back down in the face of intimidation from China, which has long claimed the island as its own. 

China responded by saying, "Taiwan independence is a dead end". 

"Regardless of the pretext or the banner under which it is pursued, the push for Taiwan independence is destined to fail," China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at the daily press briefing on Monday afternoon.

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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Japan and Korea are set to fight alongside us. They know they will be next.

Have you heard of the 1.6nm chip Taiwan just invented? Wanna know who doesn't get these new chips once Taiwan is in China's hands? We got at least 10 years before they even come close to catching up.

Ukraine is just a buffer from Russia.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wanna know who doesn’t get these new chips once Taiwan is in China’s hands

Everybody. Our own war games show we won't be able to hold Taiwan, unless we focused our entire military on that singular task and had future technology that doesn't actually exist, so we can assume they'd destroy TSMC to deny it to the enemy.

I would be surprised if even those wargames weren't wildly optimistic about readiness of reserve equipment, when we mobilized some marine divisions for Iraq, parts of aircraft that wasn't supposed to fail over the life of the aircraft and were no longer manufactured were failing.

Ukraine is just a buffer from Russia.

Ukraine is a bleeder; the US will continue to provide weapons and training to right-wing elements in Ukraine long after the Ukraine government loses its appetite for war. That was the strategy with Afghanistan in the 80s, and Russia can't retreat from this one since it's right on their border.

My point is that a status quo where reunification remains some time in the distant future forever is infinitely better for you guys than what war would entail.

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