Taiwan tensions: Could Taiwan defend itself against China? 

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Cold war

And they will be nice and safe hundreds Of feet down in their bunkers, while the rest of us will Fry. 🔥☢️🔥☢️🔥☢️

"Im 14 and I find this deep" moment Yes of course government officials with 0 training or physical fitness let Soldiers who have trained for decades do their job which they enlisted for

Yeah Hitokappu bay in kurile island

whatever

Haha

The attack code happens to be related to Taiwan.

apparently this guy just wanna talk whatever he wants:)

i agree, always treat the enemy seriously or else

@Dord Dord There are only 23,000,000 people in Taiwan.

destroying taiwan means denying their chipsets to the west, in addition to finally ending chinese civil war. they'd do it.

@@peterroycroft6433 so tens of millions lol

@@peterroycroft6433 thanks for the figure,

Yes, but that would not fit the narrative of that military guy. He wants to portray Taiwan as an island where cruel dictatorships (then Japan, now China) start their attacks on innocent little puppies on a beach in Pearl Harbour. Therefore China must not ever get a hold on Taiwan (to attack Pearl Harbour).

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Taiwan was a part of Japan.

at the same time, planes departed from Taiwan to attack US base in Clark ( Luzon, Philippine), Philippine was a US colony

America saved a lot of Chinese and Russian people during WWll.

That’s all they care. They don’t care about Taiwanese at all

Well said.

China is not USA or Russia..they dont go to war that easily..China is much more wise then USA and RUssia..how many wars and attacks in last 100 years were by USA and RUssia and how many by China..i thing for first 2 its hard to even count while China is 0

@@annan7728 totally agree. Taiwan belongs to China but not to CCP. When China is no longer ruled by CCP, Taiwan will automatically reunite with China.

@@annan7728 But Taiwan had it's own indigenous population. They should form a federation instead. China should get out of Tibet though.

That is what Republic of China ( Taiwan) leaders did before 1980s. They wanted to take back mainland China from CCP government after they were kicked out from mainland China to Taiwan island in 1949 during decade-long civil war.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

They expand it and make it more expensive so we won't own are body parts.

It was until someone started being belligerent, starting trade war CHINA and threatening to dissolve NATO. Talking about using nukes in conflicts. Almost like a middle school bully who knows not a damn thing about the subtle historic and military balances. "Trade war is easy". Genius, bigly genius.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

actually bigger than wales

These are all provocations of well-known countries, now they are unleashing a military conflict in Serbia and Kosovo, there are shelling in Syria, Romania is being set up against Transnistria, China. In Ukraine, thousands of Russians have died in the Donbas for 8 years, no one shouted stop the genocide and freedom and independence of the Donbass, on the contrary, they supply weapons to Ukraine, show everyone and say that they are defending, but in fact they know perfectly well that they continue to use against civilians in Ukraine

Taiwan is never a country . not even America ever say Taiwan is independent.

Agreed... What are they fighting for?? Let people live in Peace. War for resources and money is a tell sign of a primitive civilization who is not wise enough to grow together in peace and harmony.

Taiwan is not a country, not like Ukraine. Today sb broke my country, tomorrow they will break a lot of countries around the world by their forces, and they want to control all of the world, not just cooperations. And China grows up quickly, but never invaded ours. We want a peaceful world and make a beautiful world under everyone’s study- hard, work-hard. Cooperation would bring us greater mutual benefit and win-win outcomes. No war, I hate the politicians fan the war

What the US wants is to create a local conflict between CHINA and Taiwan [as well as RUSSIA and Ukraine]. USA would not get involved in that war directly with CHINA. Well, as we all know, the US cowardly only picks on small countries. Now it is important to see CHINA's next move after Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan. The best thing for Taiwan and CHINA is to unite as a single CHINA and thus united grow together. The only thing the USA wants is to DIVIDE and WEAKEN by creating conflicts between nations. Now that Nancy Pelosi is gone, Taiwan is left with the problem and uncertainty of how CHINA is going to react against Taiwan.

They think this is football match

What a brokey thing to say

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Little boy Jinping huffs and puffs about the visit .... then does nothing.

Free Hawaii!

So Taiwan should conduct a first-strike?

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

@TheGyre haha yeah I was joking. :)

@TheGyre it’s neither it’s the new iPhone standing behind them

@TheGyre whoosh

😂 😂

So much of The Day Today and Brass Eye was remarkably prescient

even though i am in ukraine, definetely not ready for another war 😓

hina brought down to its knees by nancy pelosi

When China defends it's self against Amerikkka. These guys on sky news will be speechless on sky news

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Yeah, considerably less than half that distance, at the most ridiculously longest measure.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

It’s not their country, they don’t care about

The US is the only global superpower and the primary defender of the current world order built around international laws... ofcourse they are involved in most conflicts, they are making sure that world order doesn't collapse or get replaced by a new world order dominated by China or Russia or any number of other bad actors out there. I'm not saying the US is doing it for the good of the world, let's face it, they are as corrupt and greedy as anyone else, but I'd rather live under their world order than under the oppressive regimes they often counter.

It's all rooted in history. The US has come out of WW2 being the most technologically developed country in the world, with the biggest economy, very specifically with the biggest industry, also with the biggest and most powerful military, and relatively undamaged. Any other country of significance in international politics was completely thrashed, after WW2. As a consequence, the US naturally became the political leader of the Western world, who, after having defeated Hitler, found itself threatened by soviet Russia. Russia went bankrupt, the European Western democracies, former empires, were rebuilt, but the US remained the most powerful country in the West. Militarily, it still is years ahead of any other country - after having been devastated by two world wars, European countries are reluctant to the point of irationality to wage war, and therefore, stupidly, don't sufficiently thoroughly prepare for it. Western democracies plus the few developed countries in East Asia (China not being one of them) represent more than half, almost three quarters of the earth's whole economy and military might, despite having a proportionally rather small population. Those countries have an acute interest to see international politics governed by strong international institutions, and the rule of law. Such a world order lets them remain dominant - it fosters economic cooperation and international trade, and, with their developed economies, they can stay ahead of other, less developed countries. Less developed countries feel left out. Rather than walking the long and tedious way of social and economic development, to the point where they become equally developed as Western countries, they wish for a quick overturn of the situation, where the West is no longer dominant in international relations. That's of course stupid, but politics is rarely rational. Few of the less developed countries can really do something about it - but many continuously try. Which makes a certain degree of policing, via peace keeping missions, unavoidable. The US, being the biggest military power in the West, is involved most often, and therefore also gets most of the retaliatory acts of terror. Which starts a devil's circle: the US gets involved in more ample offensive operations, some short, like the invasion of Panama, others long, like the intervention in Afghanistan, all of which leads to even more acts of terror against the US. This forces the US to keep a stronger military and a more widespread military presence on the globe than any other country. And also leads to the US being involved in most conflicts all over the globe.

@@a0flj0 more like being powerful made them tempted to fight or harass anyone because of the confidence that they got. Hence the long list of conflicts

Who else will stop the dictators in Russia and China from enslaving their neighbors?

@@SelfProclaimedEmperor lol

Yes, that's what a true professional looks and sounds like.

Yet, he called Taiwan a Country! 😅😅😅🤦🏻‍♂️

@@williamlee7782 But he also said its unrecognised

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Even harder for US which is 1000's of miles away!

@@alanr2609 yeah but we have bases pretty close

@@Kuckerkarlson but your base only have small number off troop and equdiment, china has a whole warehouse of it

​@@alanr2609 not really, the US planes wouldn't be shot down as they approached the island. The Chinese would have a less friendly greeting as they approached.

Plus china fail to build anything that works 100 percent so take atleast 30-40 percent of their equipment away for failures plus with us and their tech I can see china struggling not saying they will fail the ball is in their court effectively however it will be a challenge look at ukraine as an example aswell if the people don’t want it to happen they will stand and make sure it doesn’t

So much of a analyst.

True

Its quite possible that it will happen. China preparing much more steps than just drills around Taiwan and much increased military presence in Latin America is logical choice. I wouldnt be surprised if China together with Russia announced in next weeks establishing naval/air base for example in Nicaragua, or Venezuela or Cuba.

It's more like Alaska, Texas or some other breakaway region of the US. Cuba has full international recognition as an independent state, Taiwan is recognized by 180 of 193 UN member states as being part of China.

@@AFGuidesHD YOO WHAT U DOING HERE

then Taiwan is China's Cuba, why USA keeps arming Taiwan then?

imagine when China accept USA's claim on Hawaii but still arming Hawaii communists.

We've gone mad since the towers fell

Wars and conflicts in ancient times were much more brutal.. Especially in the times when Ghenghis Khan ruled, he burned down a Chinese city after isolating it, it became so bad the chinese back than had to resort to cannibalism to survive... according to witnesses who visited the place after the mongols were done told us.. that the floor was sticky of human fat..so brutal.. But yeah times nowadays seems worsening after a long time of improvement.

America will sanction China only like what they did in Ukraine-Russia. They won't go all out war.

Bad for the whole environment. More waste and pollution.

hold it their !! Great outcome for Russia over Ukraine .... China will have a Great outcome too

taiwan is never a country

@@zakjuly6721 what's russians great income sanctions? Losing thousands of men and equipment? Getting humiliated

Because we're stupid.

I want to be wrong on this matter but I don’t think I am. They’re taking Taiwan. “Spare only the island.” Is currently abounding on Chinese social media. Dissenting voices are being attenuated whereas ultranationalism is being significantly amplified. This is a grave situation. This isn’t a social phenomena, there’s no appropriate social response. Fists are going to start flying.

Ur delusional

@silent pain release another SARS!?

A repetitive but true saying.

yes and I'm Welsh and Wales regularly gets called a country but it's just a slip of the tongue.

Taiwan is indeed a de facto country, just like south korea.

He did say later Taiwan is unlike Ukraine which is a sovereign nation, but not Taiwan.

Maybe because Taiwan is a country, it has been one for more than 70 years lmfao

It Republic of China (ROC) is a country, established in 1911. When was the PRC established? 🤔

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

F16 aircraft are cutting edge with China having nothing that could even compete.

F16 is a very very old plane, builded in the late 60. How can it be a 4g plane. A lot of countries like even Pakistan is scrapping it for another model, the US is doing some refurbishing and quickly selling it to Taiwan. No another countries are buying such plane anymore for their air Force.

@@issactian3143 First flight 1974, constantly upgraded. Still eagerly sought by many countries.

@H L Don't forget those are russian systems, made in china. Top notch! /s

I hope this comment is one that falls under sarcasm! If not then humans really can reach levels of stupidity never before seen...

He is a fool !!!

@@Richardparent879 it’s probably not stupidly but rather confirmation bias. They have been brainwashed to believe that sanctions against Russia was effective and that China would be afraid of it. All they need to do really is to read analysis from say S E Asian countries, and will understand how useless those Russian sanctions were .

Agreed

Yeah, much better quality than DW, I’d rather think Germany is the colony of America.

Taiwan's territorial sovereignty belongs to China.

Ngl I was expecting the comments to all be "Commie China ain't no match for 'Murica and TAIwan", but nice to know some balance still exists in media today.

@@orangeairsoft7292 agree

extremely rare in western media. Don't tell me China/Russian media is full of freedom of speech and sunshine

Lol, calling china the biggest navy is a balanced interpretation? Sure it has the most ships, but not in terms in total tonnage

@@smonyboy when it is bigger in tonnage we will start talking about quality over quantity I suppose. The point is that we're trading with them and helping with all their technology and they're ploughing money into weapons. There's no real doubt as to the intentions of their government - at some point they will feel comfortable about doing damage. It will take a huge combined effort to restrain them. On the whole we have engaged with them a lot but they're still undemocratic and therefore very dangerous.

there is no such thing from Sky News.... always an agenda... it's just another Murdoch propaganda machine after all..... Putin's buddy

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.

Airborne went first on D day dropped behind lines to cut of communications etc. Also Germany didn't have many of their top units on the coast in Normandy Taiwan will have it's China facing coastline ready for sure.

He failed on the Ukraine map..LOL!

wrong

He’s a propagandist

he did? he said China had the biggest navy in the world... has he ever heard of America? WOW

@@scott6421 exactly America has the biggest nqvy in the world 🌎 not to mention the strength is double compared to theirs.u.s. airline carriers alone are 10 times more sophisticated

Alone, Taiwan may not be in a good position, but with America's fleet, it would bring back Taiwan's sovereignty back on the playing field.

blockade works 2 ways and from an economy of scale~ the cost to Beijing, if the blockade is extended, will be far greater on Beijing itself than the loss on Taiwan's side; hence even Beijing declare the exercise to be 3 days while their military is kind of exposing their capability to every other military watching this from afar. There are also gaps between the 6 blockade points so it's unlikely any foreign cargo ship will be shot down since the cost of the region's export will also skyrocket, cease or face a reduction in which the volume that'll affect Beijing's port kind of far exceeds the total trade of Taiwan's. So this temporary and not complete blockade seems to be designed for Beijing's internal media than being a message sent outwardly.

@@ShosinMelotic good joke, America lost war in Vietnam and Vietnam is 15 times smaller than China. Did u know Beijing is half size of Taiwan ?

No way can china impose a blockade unless they are willing to attack American ships.Then it's game over for china.

@@ShosinMelotic That, my friend, will definitely be the start of WWIII. I could almost smell the nuclear particles dancing in the air.

All Asian countries, including Japan, recognizes Taiwan as part of China so they are not getting involve in China's internal affairs.

I think he brushed over some key details but yeah good enough.

Lots of key points not mentioned

What like China having the biggest navy ? Total garbage

Excuse me , can China defend Taiwan after US plan to create an Independent country out of Taiwan .... Since 1949 Taiwan has done rather well under China ... Concentrate on the Ukrainian mess pls

His analysis is rubbish. Prof.Michael Clarke is way more more incisive and and expansive. This guy is just vague while rehashing the same nonsense from the past 50 years and nothing from a different part of the world that has nothing to with that part of the world. The fact this mediocre man was an Air Vice Marshal only highlights the sorry state of the British military. Hopefully, M-I6 and GCHQ are way more reliable than this clown. He's better off drinking a pint and being quiet.

@@mikeboydus USA won't dare to do a thing, just like in Ukraine.

@@mikeboydus the us is also obligated legally to recognize the one china policy, yet pelosi just went to taiwan in violation of it...

@@mikeboydusaccording to the one china policy (that the us claim to follow), taiwan is a province of china and members of the us government have to meet with mainland china, not taiwan.

@@mikeboydus it has never been the case that it's the second in line for presidential succession in the same party as the president, or with so many talks about recognizing taiwan's independence in the us... /shrug.

@@mikeboydus "the US government has not recognized Taiwan's independence, " it's making moves tho, like the visit od pelosi.

That's where I go for the global News. They use common sense and not the Donkey vs Elephant approach.

It's the same anti Chinese propaganda with more words, Taiwan is Chinese territory we have no business in

Correct...I can't find much on Ukraine either....but if I want to know about the next J. Bieber concert..no problem, right in my face 😂😂😂..btw I like JB, just a joke

@@dewaynecastan8444 Not a fan either. But he can sing better than me.😪

Americans want entertainment not news.

That’s US

The real face

funny innit?

Learn from who? From china???

Exactly!

Chinese reunification is a matter that has concerned our people for thousands of years, this isn’t a matter about a stupid red line. China has raised volunteer armies in the past because the people care about this too, not just the politicians on top

Taiwan has 0 allies except the US. I hate what China is doing do the Uguyers and hope someone teaches them to pick on someone on there own size

Non would commit a military invasion, look at Ukraine, it is all donations

@@razal-ghul1105 Ukriane are to blame for the mess they are in. They sold out there people for US aid.

www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/ceus/eng/zt/999999999/t36717.htm

They aren’t military allies they dont even say it exists formally. They wouldn’t go before the US is already committed

Exactly... Nancy just started a war just like kamala Harris visit started war in Ukraine.. Currently there's huge political crisis in China with real estate firms which is huge for its economy(Chinese can only buy houses and invest in real estate, as rest of the business are fully funded/owned by states) has been falling across the country one after the other... So it's obviously makes sense for them to start this war as excuse..

No no this would spike even more unrest. If Taiwan would be the agressor it would be another case

Awkwardly, the uk economy is far worse than the Chinese one, lol

@@Gionimo Not sure, more than 3/4 of Russians still support the russian invasion of Ukraine as of June per the Atlantic Council. Also support generally rises for leaders during war time even in the western world. Given the CCP has even higher propoganda controls over their own citizens I could see it bolstering national pride despite hurting them economically.

That is the gambit of President Xi

Well China has to first start invading

There are already carrier battlegroups within striking range.

Right, the nearer the carrier get to Taiwan, it a much easier target for the DF21, that why all the other carrier are at least keeping at least in Guam or Hawaii.

crossing an ocean ain't easy for China either

Its not sabre rattling those manoeuvres were planned months ago no country can just do something like that off the cuff

Japanese army is defensive not offensive one..

日本还是靠美国保护的

If US let’s go Taiwan 🇹🇼 to China 🇨🇳 US will lose two more Democratic states such as Japan 🇯🇵 South Korea 🇰🇷 due to their sea-line…

Taiwan was the planned base for the invasion by the U.S. and Britain of Japan during WWII because of ports, etc. Japan knows this and realizes China could use Taiwan for the same purpose, hence Japan's intention to help Taiwan. The history between China and Japan has never been friendly.

japan had to mind own business not american one

Japan is a clown

@Ivan Itchzikok they would not be destroyed, China is not the US

@@omotolaoyeniyi631 yes, PRC is much worse than USA because chinese cant supervise their government, while americans can supervise their government, so PRC has no qualms to do evil.

If that happened nukes will flee on both country

I'd like to see the US try. Do it China....I really want to see how Nato and the US stand back and do FUCKALL!🤣😂

And if that happens the US will never win. Put this in your mind.

Key reason is for the US to sell arms to Taiwan. Not tsmc nor in the name of democracy. JUST TO SELL ARMS

Destabilizing China is just an unintended bonus. It's not the primary goal, noooo. What geopolitical luck. Hooray. Don't look behind the curtain, there is nothing there.

Lol 😆

Eh, it doesn't mean anything. A territory can be called a country, but not be independent.

I was also glad when he called Taiwan a country

The expert did say that "Ukraine is a sovereign nation whereas Taiwan is not recognised as such." This is factually true!

China depends on other countries to support its export economy.

So china is ready to face the quad..usa india japan ang britain..and 30 nato countries...hard to believe...

The Patriot missile is already there.. manned by us forces..and the us forces dont leave a single man behind..

Supply the means to Taiwan to defend themselves.

The US doesn't have and never had a formal contract of defence with Taiwan. Only thing they have is a verbal commitment, but historically speaking, that isn't worth all that much

Britain's borders are in danger?

No they're not he's talking about rubber dinghy's crossing the channel 🏊

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