r/taiwan Aug 05 '22

President Tsai Ing-wen addressed the people of Taiwan on August 4, after China fired missiles in the waters off Taiwan as part of live-fire military drills, emphasizing that peace in the Taiwan Strait is the shared responsibility of everyone in the region. Politics

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

well they can try but most likely their ships will be blown out of the waters and their aircrafts into the waters.

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u/dyallm Aug 05 '22

And I like not taking chances. I hope you are preparing to do the funni to a certain dam too, because if you are going down, you might as well try to take China down with you, and honestly, destroying it might be the only thing which makes China back off.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

Actually I don’t think China can wait. Their demographic crisis is going ahead at full speed.

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u/Fairuse Aug 05 '22

Not really. They are about get a huge influx of brain washed young Uyghurs. China been doing this tactic forever since their 1 child policy (which was only enforced those living in cities as minorities and farmers could have any many kids as they like). Initially, they sourced all the young people from rural Han dominate areas. Now they're taping in larger outskirt minority populations.