09-11-2020, 12:33 PM
(09-10-2020, 04:24 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: A de facto independent Taiwan indicates that the People's Republic of China (PRC) can behave itself, which is some protection for the image of the PRC. Figure that an invasion of Taiwan would practically compel Japan to become a military superpower, perhaps creating a "Tokyo-Manila-Jakarta Axis" or some other variant. Canberra? New Delhi?
Saigon? Moscow? Washington DC?
It is easy to distract attention away from your COVID guilt, a little harder to make it profitable when everyone on your borders dislike you. How do you extend your naval power through the South China Sea to intimidate India without cruising past a bunch of people you have already intimidated?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.