Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The 5 REASONS for XI JINPING'S OBSESSION with TAIWAN - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. Taiwan was also a similarly oppressive dictatorship until it democratized. What irritates Beijing most is how Taiwan provides living depiction of what 華人 could be without the Party.
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  2. Stimulants feel good for the near future, but long term causes horrible damage. That's what China is experiencing with its overcapacity in apartment shells and passenger transport infrastructure, and what Russia will encounter as its richest customers set up permanent alternatives to their pipelines.
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  3. Russia actually has combat experience though, and if they're performing this poorly (especially in logistics under fire) the PLA's failures would be even more dramatic. Remember the last time the Mainlanders tried a mass deployment, they got routed by unprepared reservists in Vietnam.
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  4. Taiwan has been a threshold nuclear power for decades now, they could probably get a warhead together in a year. In fact America has had to stop the ROC from proceeding further to not antagonize the Communist Bloc. Granted this was before Tiananmen when the Mainland seemed to be heading the Western way, much like how Taiwan was likewise about to end the KMT dictatorship and democratize.
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