Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on ""We Let China Have Its Way With the World" - Melissa Chen" video.

Taiwan 2020s = Czechoslovakia 1930s. "If they wouldn't support a strong democracy like (Czechoslovakia / Taiwan), why would they care if we invaded (Poland / Indonesia)?" Appeasement is appeasement, and hopes for "peace in our time" can ONLY be supported by the will to fight.
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@amraceway I weep for the state of history education in whatever country you're from.
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@amraceway Exactly what has history "distorted" about the facts of German expansionism in the 1930s? The fact that we didn't stand up to them early on in their aggression, gave them the confidence to just keep on going. The only thing that will prevent war, here, is to make it crystal clear to the CCP that it would face overwhelming resistance. I really hope the useful idiots and out-and-out communist stooges, don't carry the day here. That would be a disaster for the world.
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@amraceway China invaded Tibet and is still in the process of destroying its culture. China is running concentration camps in Sinkiang, with the goal of destroying that ethnic minority through forced sterilization - it has already cut their birthrate in half. China's claim to Inner Mongolia is also tenuous at best, and Manchuria has a legitimate claim to independence as well. Its betrayal of the freedoms of Hong Kong is further evidence of its bad faith. Have you forgotten the violent suppression and death of thousands of demonstrators at TIannanmen Square? Have you forgotten the Chinese army that marched into Vietnam when the Americans marched out? You should clean up your own memory before getting too self-righteous about America. And even your relevant points fail to negate the fact that to avoid a China unleashed in the region like an expansionist Germany in the 1930s, we need to be both willing and able to take them on militarily if they're tempted to invade Taiwan.
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@amraceway Er, no. - The fact that there was a country called "Tibet" to be invaded, and that there was in fact an invasion of the entire country, means that your insistence it has "always been part of China" is absurd on the face of it. - The Chinese marched an army into Vietnam to INVADE it. Few of them marched back out again. (The Vietnamese remember how in ~1500 the Chinese invaded and attempted to destroy all of Vietnamese culture. They were not amused.) - Cuba and the Philippines were territories of the Spanish Empire. Both were given their independence by the United States. It took us longer than we'd promised in the case of the Philippines, but we did get around to it. You're spouting mostly nonsense here. Where do you get your history from? Howard Zinn?
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@amraceway I don't know specifically about the case of Pol Pot, but you're so wildly off the mark with the rest of your "history" I have no reason to believe you're more accurate about that case. Quite the contrary, really. Saying that China is "not perfect" is equivalent to saying 1930s Germany was "not perfect". They both have concentration camps, for heaven's sake! And I'm not sure how you can wax lyrical about the "little folk" when the CCP has tens of millions of "little folk" skeletons in its closet from the Cultural Revolution. Honestly, I'm not sure how to tell the difference between what you're arguing for, and what a bought-and-paid-for agent of the CCP would argue for.
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"I don't see how US public opinion supports intervention if Taiwan gets invaded" Explain that America loses all our electronics -- phones, computers, toys in their car, AI, etc -- if we let China control Taiwan's chip manufacturers.
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Taiwan and China don't share the same DNA. There are lots of Japanese in Taiwan. Japan has been a strong democracy for a very long time.
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