Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Taiwan condemns Chinese incursion of fighter jets into defence zone" video.
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China is attempting to trigger a reaction, so it has an excuse for invasion. Its likely China will invade Taiwan in the next few months.
Taiwan needs a powerful deterrent if this invasion is to be avoided.
China has been emboldened by the lack of international reaction to the oppression of Hong Kong. In the case of Hong Kong, the legal basis for international condemnation was relatively weak, this is not the case for Taiwan.
The question is how much damage is China willing to inflect on Taiwan to gain control?
The damage to China's international reputation could be considerable if it takes military action. The Chinese are banking on the US being unwilling to risk conflict over Taiwan. However, an attack on Taiwan would show the real face of China to the rest of the world, resulting to a severe long term political and financial reaction, turning China into a pariah state, reminiscent to that of the Nazis.
Is China willing to risk a conflict similar to that in Syria, with Taiwan reduced to smouldering ashes and rubble?
So what will China do next? Maybe a blockade, more likely a private blackmailing threat of the use of overwhelming military force if the Taiwanese government refuses to accept Chinese rule. Faced with the threat of obliteration, will Taiwan decide to fight or surrender.
No doubt the Chinese government will be hoping for a nice quiet, no fuss, takeover. The world stood by and did nothing when China annexed Tibet. At what point will Chinese aggression trigger a global reaction? It is said that all it takes for evil to prosper, is for a few good men to do nothing.
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