China launched its most extensive war games around Taiwan on Monday to showcase Beijing’s ability to cut off the island from outside support in a conflict, testing Taipei’s resolve to defend itself and its arsenal of U.S.-made weapons.
The Eastern Theatre Command said it had deployed troops, warships, fighter jets and artillery for its “Justice Mission 2025” exercises to encircle the democratically governed island, conduct live fire and simulated strikes on land and sea targets, and drills to blockade Taiwan’s main ports.
The live-firing exercises will continue on Tuesday across a record seven zones designated by China’s Maritime Safety Administration, making the drills the largest to date by total coverage and in areas closer to Taiwan than previous exercises. The military had initially said artillery firing would be confined to five zones.
Sure, buddy… And Russia is also just defending themselves from NATO by invading Ukraine.
Even Xi said, he wants to rule Taiwan, if necessary, with military force, so please quit the bullshit… Thanks.
Can you provide a source for this? I’m very interested
Honestly it’s a reading between the lines. Xi says:
https://www.cfr.org/blog/what-xi-jinpings-major-speech-means-taiwan
The “peaceful reunification” is aspirational, not practical. The practical is “take resolute action to utterly defeat any attempt toward ‘Taiwan independence’” and we see that with this military action. Consensus among CCP members is that peaceful reunification is unlikely to happen and that military force will be required (see the book “Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers” by a member of the CCP).
So, he absolutely did NOT say that, huh, whaddya know!
The literal words of Xi Jinping: “advance peaceful national reunification”
Lemmy libs: “[he] said he wants to rule Taiwan, if necessary, with military force”
Like I said, I recommend reading literature on the matter from CCP members to get more context on the matter. It won’t help you shit post for karma but it does help one make sense of things.
Literature on the matter from CCP members is irrelevant to the original claim that “Xi Jinping said he wants to rule Taiwan, if necessary, with military force”, though. You can make excuses for disinformation if you want because it suits your point of view, but that’s literally false.
I wasn’t the one who made that claim of Xi, I was the one who showed up with receipts and said you would have to read between the lines to arrive at a similar conclusion: that Xi & the party will use force if necessary to achieve the goal of reunification. Do you not think that is more relevant?