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China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait
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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Unrelated:
US Green Berets deploying to Taiwan’s front-line
The US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teeth
PRESIDENT TSAI ING-WEN RECEIVES NED DEMOCRACY SERVICE MEDAL
First link: Members of A Company, so you're looking at 100 people maximum and likely less. Not exactly a large fighting force.
Second link: There's nothing "quiet" about it. It's been blaring on Western News non-stop for about 6 years now. The US has been completely open about weapons sales and training schedules.
Third link: We gave President Tsai Ing-Wen a medal. Okay, and?
Genuine question, I know tone is hard to read online but I promise I'm not trying to be snarky: do you know the role that special forces in general and green berets in particular play in US proxy wars? They don't fight, they raise and train local militias how to do insurgency and kill political enemies. Anytime green berets are in a country next door to an enemy of the US empire, it's because they're training the next ARVN, Taliban or Azov Battalion.
they're not there to hold down a trench
1st link: title of article
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The NED is notorious for basically being a CIA cut-out
It’s amazing that this gets any downvotes at all.
Washington Post 1991: Innocence Abroad: the New World of Spyless Coups
New York Times, 1997: Political Meddling by Outsiders: Not New for U.S.
Taiwan has a right to defend itself if it chooses to.
It doesn't. The vast majority of countries recognize the PRC having sovereignty over Taiwan, as does the UN. There is no right to separatism or anything like that. Rather the PRC has the right to enforce their sovereignty. The US btw has no right to send to troops into China, that's an act of war.
You have no clue about Chinese history do you.
So you're not a fan of national self determination then?
The right to self-determination does not mean a right to an independent state or any right to secede.
Also I'm not a fan of creating a new national identity just so the US can claim part of China for its puppet regime. That's using nationalism for a colonial divide-and-conquer strategy, that's pretty much the opposite of liberation and self-determination.
Stalin, Marxism and the National Question
Is the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party the same person as the President of Taiwan, then?
If you are talking about the President of Taiwan, are you comparing a role that's existed since 1 January 1912 (25 October 1945 in its current form) to one that existed 18 February 1861 – 5 May 1865 and had exactly one officeholder?
They are. And they're comparing glorious revolutionary China to the dastardly imperialist pig dogs in the US.
Tankies are a confused bunch.
There is no morality to statehood - just cost-benefit analysis
With US troops?
Ukraine has a right to defend itself, but US troops are not deployed in Ukraine.
The Green Berets are the army's spec ops that focus on training foreign fighters, specially chosen for things like foreign language proficiency. They're not Rangers or general light infantry. Ideally they're not really supposed to get into direct combat, as they're rather time consuming and difficult to replace.
I would bet a whole bunch of money that we actually do have Green Berets present in Ukraine as well, though the only people that would know that for sure would be the US govt, the Ukrainians and probably Russian intelligence.
If the 101st Airborne gets deployed to Taiwan, then I'd be worried.
Green Berets are just as worrying. It means US is training locals, preparing for yet another proxy war or brutal crackdown on any real or potential opposition against place being subjugated to US empire.
If they didn't want them, they could just ask them to leave. If the leader disagreed, the people could vote for a different leader.
How'd that work out for Australia and Gough Whitlam trying to close Pine Gap?
I'm talking about Taiwan, but Ukrainians are defending themselves with American weapons, intelligence and training.
I believe it was released that there are 14 special force members in Ukraine as well.