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Originally posted by WestPoint23
The US should sell Taiwan some Weapon systems but not the really advanced ones.
Originally posted by longbow
I think you are underestimating Taiwan abilities to defend themselves. China has no chance to conquer the island.
Originally posted by Beast
Do you even known anything about the Chinese navy/army, other than what they show on FOX?
Taiwan could not stand China, they could win battle or two but not the war.
Even if America would help Taiwan with ships, they would not win the war.
Originally posted by Beast
Originally posted by longbow
I think you are underestimating Taiwan abilities to defend themselves. China has no chance to conquer the island.
Care to explain such a ignorant comment?
Do you even known anything about the Chinese navy/army, other than what they show on FOX?
Taiwan could not stand China, they could win battle or two but not the war.
Even if America would help Taiwan with ships, they would not win the war.
I think you are underestimating Taiwan abilities to defend themselves. China has no chance to conquer the island.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
The US should sell Taiwan some Weapon systems but not the really advanced ones. We keep those for ourselves China will not have an easy time trying to invade the island can you imagine the Chinese forces trying t cross on boats our jets and Taiwanese jests will have a turkey shoot with those boats and ships.
Originally posted by Beast
Originally posted by longbow
I think you are underestimating Taiwan abilities to defend themselves. China has no chance to conquer the island.
Care to explain such a ignorant comment?
Originally posted by WestPoint23
The US should sell Taiwan some Weapon systems but not the really advanced ones. We keep those for ourselves China will not have an easy time trying to invade the island can you imagine the Chinese forces trying t cross on boats our jets and Taiwanese jests will have a turkey shoot with those boats and ships.
Originally posted by groingrinder
Here is a news flash: CHINA HAS MISSILES!!!! They do not need soldiers on rafts to take Taiwan. They can launch a couple hundred missiles and "erase" Taiwan with no human invasion.
Originally posted by Gwraith
I had a question thats been bugging me for awhile. Why does the US insist on selling some of its advanced weapons technology to Tawian, when in all reality China will be acquiring it once it attacks the island.
Chinese economy goals The objectives for the year 2010 are to double the GNP of 2000 so that the people will enjoy even more comfortable lives, and bring a more or less complete socialist market economy into being. (Asiainfo.org)
The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since 1978. Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis, China in 2003 stood as the second-largest economy in the world after the US. CIA fact book . . . China has benefited from a huge expansion in computer internet use. Foreign investment remains a strong element in China's remarkable economic growth. Growing shortages of electric power and raw materials will hold back the expansion of industrial output in 2004 . . .groups in Burma and Thailand express concern over China's construction of 13 hydroelectric dams on the Salween River in Yunnan Province . . .Natural resources- coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest)
Originally posted by groingrinder
Here is a news flash: CHINA HAS MISSILES!!!! They do not need soldiers on rafts to take Taiwan. They can launch a couple hundred missiles and "erase" Taiwan with no human invasion.
Originally posted by PublicGadfly
Originally posted by Gwraith
I had a question thats been bugging me for awhile. Why does the US insist on selling some of its advanced weapons technology to Tawian, when in all reality China will be acquiring it once it attacks the island.
I don't see any invasion. Doesn't make sense. China views the world long-term. Over many, many years the Chinese economy will become so dominant Taiwan will become assimilated (ala Borg ).
[edit on 25/8/2004 by PublicGadfly]
Originally posted by devilwasp
Australia ? why?
whats the point?
they pose no threat to china and vice versa.