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    8 months ago

    Well Taiwan can either go with the US or China. They’ve been wanting to stay independent from China for a while now so I don’t think it’s much of a surprise.

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          8 months ago

          Well, their economy isn’t collapsing any time soon. And they managed to destroy modern military systems supplied by NATO.

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            8 months ago

            Hasn’t their economy already shrunk by 5% since the war began?

            Seems like they’re going to become a vassal state of China.

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              I’ve been saying for the last couple of months that Xi is in a perfect position to reclaim the Vladivostok oblast. The native population is over 40% Han, not just Chinese, the type of Chinese the CCP gives a shit about. He could easily appear strong internally, and reclaim former Chinese territory that the Russians invaded in 1901, under the excuse of “a special military operation to defend the ethnic Chinese people in the region.” I seriously doubt that any other country other than Russia would even bat an eye, and Russia would be impotent to defend itself.

              This would also give China a port that is outside of the first chain of islands that the US has set up

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            18 months ago

            Their gdp is production of weapons right now. After they lose no one is going to want these weapons and they have been produced for the trash.

            My point is it’s not real growth.

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        38 months ago

        I’m highly biased but that seems like an easy choice, geography notwithstanding.