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  • #91
    Originally posted by Braindead View Post
    I agree.

    However if the Chinese Communist Party found itself losing support to the extent that its hold on power was jeopardised it may try some "adventurism" to gain the support of the masses. A "re-unification of the motherland" might be a way to stoke nationalist sentiment to garner support.

    IIRC General Galtieri and his Junta tried to take the Falklands when their power was slipping. (That that did not work out well for them because they lost the war. Had they kept the falklands........ who knows.
    Yup. Talk about backfire. The falklans might even be Argentine now if it wasn't for the invasion.

    [edit:] The defeat did hasten democratic elections, and the fall of the military government. If it wasn't for it, then there might have been another internal rearrangement inside the military, and at least a couple extra years of military government, but all the human rights abuses were starting to come to light, so even a successful invasion wouldn't have saved them in the long run.
    Indifference is Bliss

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    • #92
      China has limited amphibious capability but Taiwan has a significant army. I don't think Taiwan would fall in days like Norway did in WW2.
      "I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!

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      • #93
        Originally posted by Dr Strangelove View Post
        China has limited amphibious capability but Taiwan has a significant army. I don't think Taiwan would fall in days like Norway did in WW2.
        Not to mention the U.S. has an enormous amphib capability for a counter invasion if needed.
        "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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        • #94
          Originally posted by kentonio View Post
          Chances of the US agreeing to a ceasefire (and not vetoing any such proposal at the security council) if China had just killed tens of thousands of Americans? Does that even sound vaguely plausible?
          Not since Pearl Harbor, it hasn't.
          No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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          • #95
            Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
            Just to clarify, I meant "china invades taiwan" as a "What If" that would end up in sinking US carriers - not one that is very realistic for the moment.

            A way more hot thing is this - could end with Vietnam and USA becoming allies .
            Wall Street Journal, why must you be like this???
            No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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            • #96
              By which I mean, it's behind a paywall.
              No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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              • #97
                Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post
                By which I mean, it's behind a paywall.
                Strange, I get that too now, but I didn't when I found it.
                With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                Steven Weinberg

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                • #98
                  The first hit is free...
                  No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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