Well you’re not wrong. But the last time they tried, it was the Vietnamese communists that stopped them. Of course that was on the ass end of 60 years of near continuous combat experience.
The place is a jewel. Have you learned anything about it? You don’t just randomly become the world’s leading high tech manufacturer. They have great land, great resources, a great trading location, great people, great natural defenses… Any country on Earth would flip to have Taiwan.
That has literally been their policy since Mao. This is not news.
Xi seems to see it as a objective he intends to accomplish in his life.
So did his predecessors.
First Taiwan then the rest of Asia that isn’t India or Russia. They won’t stop.
They’ll never get Vietnam.
Well you’re not wrong. But the last time they tried, it was the Vietnamese communists that stopped them. Of course that was on the ass end of 60 years of near continuous combat experience.
What importance did Taiwan hold before the chip era to raise Mao ze Donger?
The fact that it was the last refuge of the Chinese democratic republic he fought against for one thing.
Let’s be fair, the ROC under the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek was far from democratic despite their claim to Sun Yat-sen’s legacy.
The place is a jewel. Have you learned anything about it? You don’t just randomly become the world’s leading high tech manufacturer. They have great land, great resources, a great trading location, great people, great natural defenses… Any country on Earth would flip to have Taiwan.