Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Taiwan: Live radio chatter between fighter jets reveals tension" video.

  1. SE Asia is trying to extract from the PRC while it's still able to play both sides. But yes underlying the economic "considerations" most of its people would ultimately call to support the Taiwanese because of the popular hate against Communist and/or Chinese domineering (which in the most geostrategically crucial Indonesia happens to be both).
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  2. The ROCAF is likely not concerned with those flights on the Mainland side other than watching for inward movement. It's when the PLAAF crosses the median line where they're scrambling jets for, and the PLA is probing deep past this line sometimes even circumnavigating the whole island.
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  3. It's Taiwan that's diverging itself from "China", especially after seeing what the CPC did with HK under "One Country Two Systems" and having zero assurances the same won't happen to their hard-fought democracy (remember Taipei was also a one-party dictatorship until about 30 years ago).
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  4. Right, the PLA is tasked to try intimidating the Americans out of the area, whom they also know they can't make even minor mistakes against either. It's a very delicate balance to not look like a "failure" back home yet not also create an incident that could lead to escalation.
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  5. Taiwan is recognized as integral to "China", but not recognized as a sovereign part of the People's Republic. That's the Policy that differs from the Beijing's _Principle_, and most nations outside of Africa, Eastern Europe, and the -stans use the Policy to justify "unofficial" relations with Taipei.
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  6. It's been done before, and those two enemies even clearly had offensive momentum, superior equipment, and years of combat experience at the time. Today the US enjoys a global logistics network and neighboring countries to those "superpowers" that appreciate America's counterbalancing presence.
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  7.  @PlaYer-sn5or  The status quo ended when Beijing violated HK's judicial autonomy in the name of wide and vague "national security" concerns, which served to prove "One Country Two Systems" is ultimately a farce with the CPC in charge.
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  8. More like the US doesn't want Chinese nuclear-tipped boomer submarines to be able to slip into the wider Pacific at will undetected, especially now that the PRC is multiplying its nuclear arsenal to possibly USSR levels. Even a Chinese "washing machine" (PLAN subs have been described as comically loud) can go silent when it's under the sound-reflecting thermocline of the deep sea.
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  9. Chip fabs are the most sensitive tools humans have ever created, with even something like minor seismic activity causing an urgent call to a hyperspecialized engineer sometimes in another city to rush in and adjust a specific machine back into its atom-sized tolerances or come up with an equivalent workaround before yields turn uneconomical and the entire facility's 24/7 production schedule gets screwed up (this is why only similarly-small South Korea is Taiwan's main competitor). Simple neglect and the disappearance of the staff is enough to sabotage much of the facility, and that's before battle damage of any sort.
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  10. The CPC is too scared of the results, especially when the opposition starts digging into its history and publicly calls out the Party for its hypocrisies and abuses which the Chinese people are generally aware of but were unable to do anything about.
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  11. Not more than "normal", since Taipei doesn't want to cause popular fatigue with constant updates on median line incursions. It's similar to the deliberate ignorance in Seoul despite the now-nuclear threat across the DMZ. For outsiders though the PLA's moves aren't so familiar especially after decades of "peaceful rise".
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