BehindBlueI's
Grandmaster
- Oct 3, 2012
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What is there to touch exactly? In the short term you're correct in the rationalization that'll likely be used in support of such appeasement. Long term, it seems likely that Taiwan is the current Sudetenland and the Biden administration is likely to play the role of a dumber, less honorable Neville Chamberlain. As you said, the loss of men and material is inevitable, appeasement doesn't change that inevitability, it only increases the cost.
Why we would suddenly shift gears and deploy the military for an independant Taiwan when our policy for years as been:
U.S. Relations With Taiwan - United States Department of State
U.S.-Taiwan Relationship As a leading democracy and a technological powerhouse, Taiwan is a key U.S. partner in the Indo-Pacific. Though the United States does not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, we have a robust unofficial relationship. The United States and Taiwan share similar values...
www.state.gov
"The United States does not support Taiwan independence."
Date: 2018.
Trump's State Dept didn't see us going to war for Taiwan independence either, apparently. That's not as much fun as blaming Biden for everything or bumperstickering some of you voted for this, though, so it's ignored.
I don't see how losses would somehow be higher later, nor some inevitable shooting conflict. The Chinese are patient, one of the 'advantages' of an actual totalitarian regime is they can afford to be since they don't have to swing with popular opinion every 4 2/4/6 years. They are not all powerful, however, nor without internal dissent, which is the point of this propaganda. It's not aimed at the American consumer of outrage, we would assume soldiers would be treated as enemy combatants. It's aimed internally to show a lack of fear of the US and project power, which may or may not be real. China's one child policy has not been kind to their military capabilities. Combined with increased standards of living and human life isn't as cheap as it used to be for the rank and file.