China Tai-wants what it can't have?

[TigerVols]

If and when China invades Taiwan, what will the US do?

I mean, I know what we've said we'll do...but would US citizens be willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of servicemen and women's lives and billions of dollars?

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3960945-lawmakers-wargame-chinese-invasion-taiwan/

(I think this is worthy it's own thread. I hope mods agree!)

 

[dixiehack]

Sometimes the joke just isn't there and you have to go with a straight hed.

 

[Justin_Rice]

If China invaded Taiwan you would see:

1. A distant blockade of Chinese shipping.
2. Immediate impoundment of Chinese commercial shipping abroad.

This would wreck the Chinese economy and cost literally billions of dollars in asset losses.

China's not invading Taiwan.

 

[Songbird]

 

[Neutral Corner]

China sees the sanctions that Russia is currently living under. China makes a living on manufacturing and trade. They'd have to want that island very badly indeed.

 

[TigerVols]

Sometimes the joke just isn't there and you have to go with a straight hed.

And sometimes you just have to taiwan on.

 

[TigerVols]

China sees the sanctions that Russia is currently living under. China makes a living on manufacturing and trade. They'd have to want that island very badly indeed.

Warren Buffett seems to think they indeed do want it.
Warren Buffett gives reason for surprise sale of stake in Taiwan's TSMC

 

[Batman]

If China invaded Taiwan you would see:

1. A distant blockade of Chinese shipping.
2. Immediate impoundment of Chinese commercial shipping abroad.

This would wreck the Chinese economy and cost literally billions of dollars in asset losses.

China's not invading Taiwan.

China is very smartly getting its economic ducks in a row right now. It's been flexing some muscles with the Saudis, Iran, Russia, South Africa and a number of other countries to build a system that goes around Western sanctions and even Western banks. They've also spent a lot of the past decade creating island bases in the South China Sea and laying economic landmines in all sorts of countries with their Belt and Road Initiative (whereby they build a boondoggle infrastructure project for some cash-strapped country and gain a lot of leverage over its government in the process).

Them courting the Saudis is especially troubling. Oil is priced in U.S. dollars. If the Saudis decide the yuan is the future (and given the state of our economy and reckless attitude toward spending, it's not unthinkable) and ditch the dollar, then the dollar is no longer the world's default currency and our own economy is pretty well forked.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

<Ragu cracks his knuckles, begins typing a 1,200-word reply>

Well, yes, our economy is forked thanks to the Fed's reckless …

 

[Songbird]

The Bahama Bob's bubble is about to burst.

 

[Batman]

<Ragu cracks his knuckles, begins typing a 1,200-word reply>

Well, yes, our economy is forked thanks to the Fed's reckless …

Well, yeah, we are pretty well forked at this point. This just could be the thing that really dynamites the entire house of cards.

 

[swingline]

Don't fork with Frank Underwood, @Batman.