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Oct 13, 2020 19:32:06 GMT -8
Post by artraveler on Oct 13, 2020 19:32:06 GMT -8
I am of the opinion that the USA would have to come to Taiwan's defense. Very true, an attack on Taiwan would almost automatically trigger a counter attack by the US, New Zealand and Australia. Given the current relations between the US and Japan they would certainly join in. It is just this senecio that the Pacific fleet has been practicing for the last week. The Japanese are able to field a formidable fleet with 4 "helicopter transports" that are or soon will be capable of F-35 operations. Although the 7th fleet does not equal the PLAN in numbers the firepower and capability is greater and adding the other allies to the mix, Australia two carrier battle groups New Zealand one LHD and assorted DDS and FFG. The ability to repel a PRC invasion of Taiwan is impressive. It is however, up to Taiwan to want defense. A weak government that invited the PRC in would effect invasion without firing a shot.
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Oct 13, 2020 20:36:11 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Oct 13, 2020 20:36:11 GMT -8
As things now stand, the Taiwanese government would never allow the PRC in. The DDP which is the party in power has increased defense spending over the last few years and it is projected they will continue to do so. A big question in this regard is how much the USA will support them with the sale of military equipment. With Trump in charge, the USA has supplied and contracted for large amounts of equipment including something like 60 F-16Fs. I think I have mentioned that there are over 20,000 rockets and missiles in Taiwan aimed at China should an attack develop. Some of these can reach Beijing.
The KMT, i.e. the Kuomuntang which is Chiang Kai Shek's party and the group which keeps alive the idea of a reunion with China has lost a tremendous amount of support. I believe less than 20% of the population support the KMT, at the moment.
In any case, younger Taiwanese, to the tune of over 60% as I recall, want no part of unity with China and do not consider themselves "Chinese." I think there is a lot to this as Taiwanese culture is an interesting mix of Chinese, Japanese (who were colonizers for decades) and local aboriginals.
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Post by artraveler on Oct 15, 2020 8:04:11 GMT -8
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Post by artraveler on Oct 21, 2020 6:14:11 GMT -8
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Nov 19, 2020 13:19:16 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Nov 19, 2020 13:19:16 GMT -8
This is a piece on a British diplomat saving a young woman from drowning while Chinese stood by and watched. Saved by a BritI can tell you that this type of thing, i.e. Chinese standing by watching while someone drowns, is not uncommon. I heard of such occurrences many times while I lived in Asia. One particular instance has stayed with me. A child fell into a fast flowing river and the mother was frantic asking for help. Most people simply stood by and watched, but one good soul came up and asked the mother how much she would pay him if he jumped in to save her child. I don't recall the amount of the negotiated settlement.
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Nov 19, 2020 13:45:17 GMT -8
Post by timothylane on Nov 19, 2020 13:45:17 GMT -8
This is a feel-good story, but with a barb. The Brits have many flaws, but many still have that sense of noblesse oblige that leads to such actions. I suppose this is especially likely with a Tory.
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Nov 21, 2020 21:34:35 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Nov 21, 2020 21:34:35 GMT -8
This is very important. It looks like Trump is boxing in Biden and the foreign policy establishment as well as those making billions in China. This move will piss off the CCP no end. Great. Tibet leader in exile visits White House
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Nov 21, 2020 21:47:33 GMT -8
Post by timothylane on Nov 21, 2020 21:47:33 GMT -8
Unfortunately, there's nothing we really can do for Tibet other than meet its leaders, though that does have the benefit of angering the Chicoms. I found the one writer's name (Tenzing Noryang) interesting, in that Edmund Hillary's native partner in climbing Mt. Everest was Tenzing Norgay.
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Nov 21, 2020 21:55:17 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Nov 21, 2020 21:55:17 GMT -8
I would not be at all surprised if the Chicoms reacted in a concrete way that punished someone or some business. This might set off a game of tit-for-tat which is what I believe Trump wants.
I suspect that he, like me, does not buy the rubbish about China being unbeatable. They can be hurt badly without the US firing a shot. It only takes will.
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Dec 9, 2020 12:46:01 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Dec 9, 2020 12:46:01 GMT -8
Can anyone doubt what I have been hammering away at for decades? American elites have been selling out the USA since the 1980s latest. Our elites are corrupt, stupid and traitorous. We have a trifecta.
Believe me when I say that the CCP has its fingers very deeply into this election fraud.
Biden is totally compromised. Yet we stroll merrily along, whistling past the graveyard hoping there are no ghosts around. Banana Republic, hah! We don't even rate that epithet.
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Dec 9, 2020 13:58:12 GMT -8
Post by timothylane on Dec 9, 2020 13:58:12 GMT -8
Tucker Carlson discussed this a couple of nights ago.
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Dec 9, 2020 14:08:25 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Dec 9, 2020 14:08:25 GMT -8
I know, but he did not give this much detail. Furthermore, this needs to be repeated over and over again. I have been broadcasting this for decades, but I am forced to repeat myself endlessly as my audience is very small and most people don't pay attention to smoke in the far distance. They wait until the fire is upon them at their own homes before doing anything. More fools they.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 13, 2020 8:26:23 GMT -8
During communications regarding the fraudulent presidential election, and Trump's options, a Singaporean-Chinese friend writes: I agreed any options is no good for Americans but advantage for CCP and not Chinese people (you must aware 95% Chinese not benefit from ccp but simply work as slave labourers even the rich bosses like mr Ma of Alibaba he simply is puppet n not real owner. Trouble is Donald trump or conservative run out of options to fight back. Now legal contests almost reach a dead end seem firmly controlled by deep state. 2nd last option is depending on college electors but there are so many inner betrays within the party.... no assurance to win either. Out of no solution perhaps is declared martial law which as president is allowed to do. In order to nullify this bogus election . With re-election strictly by walk in vote only with ID verification for all states. I am sure majority of Americans will understand this rationality. This is the way to give power back to people. Martial law only catered for re-election and not massive arrests. Vote to be count by army personnel with both parties as observers.
This is least costly way to resolve this issue without dividing the United States of America !!!! When Trump re-elected he must proceed for serious area cleaning to get rid of the deep state scums within the bureau. Americans have a choice but of course there is no better choice available.
Remember what I told you when we just met in spore decades ago. That Chinese don’t play game !!!!! Every move is life and dead ..... every meal is brutal fight that one may lose his life for merely for one mouthful of meat. This is your battle now in America. If you don’t fight back CCP will take you for breakfast......🙄🙄🙄
People outside America (who are not fat, dumb, happy and lazy) understand what is happening and the danger we are in.
The CCP is the greatest existential threat the USA has ever had. Forget the U.S.S.R., who as Steve Bannon humorously said "were a bunch of Russians, but China is like the Germans except instead of 80 million of them, there are 1.4 billion." He understands the magnitude of things.
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Dec 13, 2020 11:34:31 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Dec 13, 2020 11:34:31 GMT -8
And today this has just come out.
Again, I have been warning of the insanity of letting Chinese "scientists, engineers, medical people, etc, etc, etc, into the deepest depths of our institutions.
We have been here before with the Soviets in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The difference is that there are a hell of a lot more Chinese and the CCP has no ideals other than power.
Does anyone seriously believe that the CCP has not been complicit in the theft of the November election?
I believe it was Justice Jackson who said, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact." We need to remember that.
I have followed Steve Bannon at a distance for the last couple of years. I have been watching him very closely for the last few months. I must say that I agree with him in just about every instance. The man lays out the con that has been taking place over the last twenty (I would say almost 40 years) in very clear terms. He pulls no punches.
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Dec 16, 2020 14:27:44 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Dec 16, 2020 14:27:44 GMT -8
A very good short piece which calls into question all the happy talk about how great China's economy is.
I think the writer has hit the nail on the head. I would take it farther in a slightly different direction. I believe Xi Jinping is using the present KFF panic to let small businesses go bust and others struggle. At some point, the state will come in and form "partnerships" with virtually all businesses in China thus killing the private sector. Everyone will be dependent on the state at all times.
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Dec 16, 2020 14:48:19 GMT -8
Post by timothylane on Dec 16, 2020 14:48:19 GMT -8
Subpar, and even lethal, quality might have something to do with it. It's no use producing goods that no sensible person would buy.
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Dec 16, 2020 17:36:52 GMT -8
Post by artraveler on Dec 16, 2020 17:36:52 GMT -8
Everyone will be dependent on the state at all times. One of my favorite jokes about the Soviets: We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us. Humor is often an excellent way to get an insight on what is going on inside a culture. Of course the communist culture is mostly humorless. I wonder are there any Chinese or NK comics alive? Or for that matter Iranian? Dull humorous countries are almost always oppressive regardless of political ideology.
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Dec 16, 2020 17:57:55 GMT -8
Post by timothylane on Dec 16, 2020 17:57:55 GMT -8
There will be underground humor, but very little open. Another anti-Communist joke involved some party lecturer giving all the (probably fake) statistics about how great life was, to which someone asked, "But comrade, if everything is so good, why is everything so bad?" Another was an anti-Mao joke. It seems they were (as usual) having a famine in China, and Mao sent off to Khrushchev asking for food. The latter noted that the Russians were also short on rations, and suggested the Chinese tighten their belts. So Mao sent another request -- for belts to tighten.
In Nazi Germany, cabaret humor apparently continued for a while. But one got in trouble with Goering, normally more tolerant than most Bonzen, when he suggested that Goering had named his new son Hamlet because of the famous quote, "Sein oder nicht sein, das ist der frage." (I'm sure KFZ gets it, but basically "sein" can mean either "his" or "to be".)
Shirer had a few anti-Nazi jokes in his Berlin Diary, and one book I had devoted a whole chapter to Third Reich humor, much of it mocking the spineless Germans themselves. (A much safer target, I suspect.)
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Dec 16, 2020 19:00:01 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Dec 16, 2020 19:00:01 GMT -8
Not a bad play on words. I had never heard that one before.
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Dec 18, 2020 20:19:08 GMT -8
Post by kungfuzu on Dec 18, 2020 20:19:08 GMT -8
It looks like Trump is finally doing the necessary to really hit China. Denying the CCP access to American capital markets would be much more damaging to the Reds than import tariffs. The possibility to de-list Chinese companiesIn May of this year, I attached a video which stated this was the way to go if we were serious in standing up to the CCP.
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