Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Can AUSTRALIA help to STOP CHINA? (BIDEN's latest move) - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. How so? China relies on the US for food and other raw materials for its industries. Cutting off China (and especially convincing some of our other friends to do the same) would force them to quickly empty their treasury ordering from alternative markets. Combine that with actual combat in the East and South China Seas scaring off civilian ships, and the PRC would implode in unrest as cities go dark and food prices skyrocket while the Chinese people wonder how come their only child disappeared on deployment.
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  2. No, Canada isn't part of this arrangement. They're within the Five Eyes intelligence sharing group, although their focus is primarily on Russia.
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  3. Turn against Australia? The Aussies are prolific in the expeditionary use of its army, and are consistently lauded for how well they do in combat.
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  4. Rumor is Australia is getting British Astute boats anyway, since the UK is about to complete its original order (and thus have engineers about to go idle) while the US is still maxed out at the shipyards trying to build for itself. This would explain why the UK is part of this alliance for a theater on the other side of the world.
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  5. Indo and M'sia only protest because they don't want to prematurely get cut off from the lucrative trade with China. Given their history with both Chinese and Communists though, I'd wager if they must decide it's going to be with the West.
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  6. In a cross-Straits war there's really no land for casual combatants to booby trap, and no reporters around amplifying the message of the resistance -- in the air and on the sea would be nearly pure combat of technology and experience. If anything invading Taiwan will be the Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan for the PRC.
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  7. If you look at China-flagged movements globally, they want to take as much resources around the world as they can get their hands on. The real infrastructure they build focuses on getting those resources to the open sea where they ship it over, not so much is done with education and interconnecting the host nation like an actually benevolent aid package. It's all but copying what the Europeans did with their colonies a century ago.
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  8. The US specifically prevented Taiwan from achieving nuclear capability because of the threat of a cross-Straits conflict blowing up into WW3. Taiwan remains however a breakout power, able to build a warhead probably within a year if it wanted.
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