Rofl. It is near lunch time here going to eat.
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While some of these physical pose are impressive I have doubts on the last one- most likely the drill is spinning in reverse mode.
The China-Taiwan-US diplomacy takes up huge resources and political capital that the CCP could have placed elsewhere.
Make no mistake if the CCP have a list of their priorities Taiwan would come up on top.
As I mentioned before south china sea issues and N/S Korean issues, and maritime...
I'm not familiar with PLA missile carrying vehicle, but I think DF-31 launcher tubes are shorter, like this one:
DF-41 has longer range than DF-31, which cannot target continental US (DF-31 can, but DF-41 has global reach from within China)
There are both ongoing and planned strategic partnerships between China and Taiwan. But China is not going to sacrifice the goal of reunification for strategic partnership, if both cannot be attained they will opt for the latter.
Strategic partnership can never bring you the level of control an actual reunification brings, CCP is hard-eyed about this. In this case all roads they take eventually have the aim of leading to reunification in mind. They are not going to accept anything less in the long term. As long as Taiwan...
All other things not considered Taiwan is too strategically important to China to be left independent.
Wealth disparity is not an issue as they are not looking to unify right now, as China grows more influential you will find the voice for reunification will increase.
Do you know why China...
It's for infrastructure, so no matter who gets contract in the end it will benefit everyone that uses the facility.
Of course it needs to go to the least corrupt contractors.
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How much defections from Dharamsala do you think you can buy with 47 billion US dollars?
The point is the CCP can...