Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "CNBC International Live" channel.

  1. JOHNSON: No Prime Minister after me can possibly ever make such a colossal disaster of things as I have. TRUSS: Hold my tea.
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  2. Taiwan is a democracy, unlike Communist China. In a Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll conducted in June 2020, 54% of respondents supported de jure independence for Taiwan, 23.4% preferred maintaining the status quo, 12.5% favored unification with China, and 10% did not hold any particular view on the matter. Taiwan has 23.5 million people. At least half of them want to leave. You really think 12 million people are going to just peacefully leave their country and go to Australia? China's invasion of Taiwan would be more complicated than the Allied invasion of Normandy. China would have to transport over 500,000 troops over 160km of open water, during which time its navy would be a sitting duck for Taiwan's anti-ship missiles. Once the Chinese reach Taiwan, they'd find heavily fortified beaches, mud flats, and mountain ranges between them and the capital of Taipei. The Chinese navy and army also haven't fought in an actual war since 1979, when the Vietnamese army kicked their asses in a border dispute. If the will of the Taiwanese people matter, 77.4% of them do NOT want reunification with mainland China. Your idea of a mass exodus is nonsense and your assessment of China's military capability reads like propaganda. Do you have any military service or training? Doesn't sound like it.
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  3. The Chinese would need a minimum of 500,000 troops to take Taiwan. How are they going to move all of their soldiers and armaments across the sea and storm the beaches of Taiwan, which has been fortifying its shores for decades? Taiwan also has a lot of cheap surface to surface missiles that would sink a lot of Chinese ships. Missiles are cheap; ships are expensive. Last time the PRC went to war was 1979, in a border dispute with Vietnam. The Vietnamese kicked their asses.
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  4.  @asdf3568  Offense means you have to outnumber defense by at least 3:1. Just ask the Allies who stormed the beaches at Normandy what it was like for them. I'm not going to bother to debate people who clearly have opinions and not facts. Have a nice day, sir.
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  5. Your question answered your question.
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  6. I know someone who works for Tom Barrack and I asked him if there would be a recession this year. He laughed and said "It started last year and is going to go on for a couple of years at least. Doesn't matter; we'll make money either way." People will tell you the truth sometimes, not often when you point a camera at them, and never when their job depends on not telling the truth.
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  7. I don't think I can survive any further "help" from these overprivileged control freaks.
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  8.  @himarii.3780  Tell me you're a paid propagandist for the PRC without using the actual phrase LOL Communist Chinese propaganda doesn't bend reality. The reality: invading Taiwan will be the worst self-inflicted wound since Hitler invaded Russia.
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