Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "How Taiwan Became the Biggest Risk for a U.S.-China Clash" video.

  1. Including nuclear war? Sorry. No.
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  2.  @michaelf.2449  You should check on that. Not many countries actually formally recognise Taiwan. Almost all of them are in Central America.
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  3.  @redpanda2657  One thing I learnt from reading about things like the Cuban Missile Crisis and Operation Able Archer 83: what if everything we think we know is wrong?
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  4.  @JorgeGonzalez-gu7ve  That is true but a lot of the countries in that area have become much more prominent since the revolution. They have a say in this too.
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  5. How does that help the situation?
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  6. That will never happen. The Taiwanese see themselves as the rightful rulers of China. This is not just a one-way street.
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  7. China 6-4 on, US 4-1 against.
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  8.  @gizroc  When did they threaten Australia with nuclear weapons? They have certainly made direct threats against Australian sailors operating in the South China Sea. Fighting fire with fire isn’t an option there.
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  9. That's normal in any invasion, communist or otherwise. Just remember this: the Taiwanese think that they are the rightful rulers of China in exactly the same way that the Chinese think they are the rightful rulers of Taiwan. If the population ratio was the other way around you can bet the shoe would be on the other foot.
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  10.  @kart0917  It takes two to tango. No, if we only blame China we'll end up in a war for sure.
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  11.  @TrustInTheShepherd  Taiwan does not want to be part of Communist China. Big difference. Taiwan still secretly harbours the ambition that one day their ruling elite will run mainland China again.
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  12.  @damonchan192  I'm glad you brought that up. That's just nationalist rhetoric. They don't speak for everyone in Catalunya. This is why nationalism is such an evil force. It starts wars.
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  13.  @TrustInTheShepherd  Then they got the claim back again when Chiang Kai Shek fled there in 1949. After all, what right did he have to invade the place?
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  14.  @theccpisaparasite8813  That's not a fact, it's an opinion. I call it a criminal regime but that's only my opinion. No matter how confident I am, I can't claim it as a fact.
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  15.  @jonb914  Who is justifying it? If you want to understand these things, you need to look at it dispassionately from both perspectives.
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  16.  @jonb914  No one has clubbed anyone yet.
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  17. That's lucid...
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  18.  @ahesweet  How would that help?
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  19.  @kieranmilner4208  How would recognising Taiwan have helped?
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  20. What about it? That would just make conflict more likely.
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  21. Japan's role in this is to try to stop it spreading. This is not just about Taiwan. It's the whole region. It's the whole South China Sea. there are lots of other countries in the region who have direct interests there. Vietnam - who don't like China, Thailand, who are increasingly moving into the Chinese circle. Malaysia and the Philippines... all of them scrabbling for disputed territory and there's a lot of disputed territory in that part of the world.
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  22. There's a lot more to it than that. So much of the world's economic power and manufacturing is based in those countries that surround China. It's not just a potential war between two countries. Look at all those other countries like South Korea and Japan, who are world manufacturing powers who would inevitably be caught up in this and potentially suffer huge losses. And that's a positive outcome. The negative one is just too horrible to contemplate.
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  23. Sounds like a great way to start a war.
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