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I'm not quite sure what your arguing? 4 40 year old Destroyers is not a particularly impressive force, especially in comparison to the Chinese navy: depending on how aggressive the Chinese Carrier production is and if they stay on schedule, China is a couple of years from matching the number of...

I'm honestly a bit shocked every time I hear a story of a mainstream company not bending over backwards to support the pro-China side.

Eh, not really. Like, looking at the 2020 China tree, the Chinese don't really reach the end of their population boom for about 60 years (their largest population generation is still in their early 30s). And I mean, if all they managed to do was stabilize the generations at about 40 million...

The alleged moral status of Taiwan. A comment on the internet, but a data point non the less. TAIWAN WILL BE DEFENDED BY THE BULLET, OR NOT AT ALL

Eh, doesn't really change anything in the statement any way.

I mean, I think your probably more likely to be directing Chinese jets on where to bomb the Idaho rebels, than shooting down Chinese jets, but lets say you do get your wish and kill a million Americans and 4 million Chinese over a year. Now that the US military is dead, what's step two in this...

And dying for Biden won't achieve either of those.

Why are you so eager to die for biden?

I mean, this is the logical, rational thing for both sides to do. Eh, we stayed in for 20 years out of embarrassment. I think people put a little too much weight on it, or miss understand what it means. For example, if everyone knows from the beginning this is paying organized highway bandits...

This is all assuming of course the Chinese don't already have an agreement with the Taliban through Pakistan. If all they need is the Taliban to operate and protect their facilities with a 30/40 profit sharing agreement, I don't see the Taliban particularly objecting to getting a billion dollars...

Sure, a terrible enough natural disaster or war is bad for anyone. They don't really have a massive age issue though. That's one of those things people claim is a major problem, mostly without evidence. Well, they point to the 1 child policy, which most people only really know the name of, which...

Eh, a terrible collapse requires them not being able to get something their currently getting. Generally, that requires not being able to buy things. Thus, the fact that they're no where close to not being able to buy things is important: the USSR for example famously was dealt serious death...

Eh, hopefully your right. At this point, eh. They've bought so much stuff overseas that an internal collapse without everything else collapsing might not be a reasonable assumption at this point. Like, just on US investments there's something like $120 billion in assets purchased just in the US...

The big question with Taiwan is how close they are to being conquerable by a helicopter landinging near their capital to inform them of them of being conquered. As far as I can tell, the current support for unification with mainland China under current conditions is about 10-15%, which is a...