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Chinese “D-Day style” barges have been spotted practising what appear to be amphibious landings in the South China Sea.
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No one spends trillions to build a fleet they don’t intend to use.
I’m not NCD certified but those aren’t warships. The big one in the back has seven stacks?! Easy to defeat with even WWII munitions.
China’s version could also be vulnerable to high winds and seas and – in the case of an invasion of Taiwan – an easy target to destroy, according to Timothy R. Heath, a senior international defence researcher at RAND.
“The slow moving barges are easily targeted so they are unlikely to survive in the middle of a battle on the beaches,” he told The Telegraph.
He added: “The PLA has many better suited military-grade amphibious assault ships that could carry out similar tasks of unloading armoured vehicles.”
Mr Heath argued the barges are more likely to be used to deliver humanitarian supplies to disaster-struck regions with poor port infrastructure.
So, either humanitarian or long-term occupation supplies. No one is going to put an invasion force on ships with fucking smokestacks. Could be prototypes rigged to existing boats though.
China should just accept taiwan sovereignty and strengthen economic and political ties with Europe. Doing nothing and winning has been working so well.
Taiwan was never unified with mainland China to begin with, anyway. They have no claim over it. Not that that stops the CCP from claiming everything in the Pacific.
Even if, I used to be there is not a valid claim anyhow.
Its a bit more complicated, basically the Chinese civil war was interrupted by the second world war and resumed afterwards. One side was the communists and the other side the republic of China. This war was never resolved, the ROC government fled to Taiwan and the communists took over the mainland, declaring the PRC. Until 1991 both the ROC and the PRC claimed to be the sole legitimate representatives of China. Meaning all of China, mainland and Taiwan. Until 1971 Chinas representative in the UN was from the ROC.
So its a bit like the American civil war never ended, and the Confederate government just fled to Florida. From the viewpoint of China Taiwan has been occupied Chinese land since 1949.
It’s more like if the American Civil War never ended and the union government fled to Puerto Rico.
Yes. But now there is gonna be a big butt (hehe) coming. Taking Taiwan would be immensely damaging to chinas reputation internationally and I do not believe in the whole blood and soil thing so if the taiwanese want to be independent I support them. So while you are right and historically there is much more to it I believe it would be very beneficial for china to just roll with it and use a western backed taiwan and hong kong to their advantage. We are all seeing how damaging similar rhetoric is to the russian people and even the americans right now. If any country takes any land by force it wont have friends on the international stage and reliable trading partners which china massively profits from.
That would be the smart thing to do, sure. The problem is that narcissists and megalomaniacs are reckless and dangerous.
Good luck Taiwan! There won’t be any US support for you unfortunately
✨that was one of the points of the international foreign influence campaign to disrupt our elections✨
Well it’s correct now. Might not have been then.
i don’t understand what you’re saying. i think my brain is just very smooth tho
This is China, lubing up before fucking Taiwan …badly.
And/or the Philippines.
