silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoIn a Setback for Beijing, Taiwan Elects Lai Ching-te as Presidentwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1294arrow-down16
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minus-squareNougat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down2·11 months agoChina just had it’s extremely entrenched corruption revealed to the world, such that a quickly successful attack on Taiwan is off the table, and they know it. China is in no position to wage war against anyone, and won’t be for a very long time.
minus-squareFrankLaskey@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoCan you elaborate on these and how this would rule out aggression towards Taiwan?
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·11 months agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-06/us-intelligence-shows-flawed-china-missiles-led-xi-jinping-to-purge-military
minus-squareNougat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agohttps://youtu.be/oupSYGUL0dE?si=ndkuLSz5K5-yext9
minus-squareDarkGamer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·11 months agoTheir capacity to wage war is going to severely diminish when they run out of young people
China just had it’s extremely entrenched corruption revealed to the world, such that a quickly successful attack on Taiwan is off the table, and they know it. China is in no position to wage war against anyone, and won’t be for a very long time.
Can you elaborate on these and how this would rule out aggression towards Taiwan?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-06/us-intelligence-shows-flawed-china-missiles-led-xi-jinping-to-purge-military
https://youtu.be/oupSYGUL0dE?si=ndkuLSz5K5-yext9
Their capacity to wage war is going to severely diminish when they run out of young people