Taiwan
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China-Taiwan: Can a tech billionaire create a civilian fighting force?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63196623"... a retired tech billionaire in Taipei, white-haired and bespectacled, called the island's media to a press conference to tell them he was pledging one billion Taiwan dollars (£28m; $32m) to create a civilian army."
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Taiwan's army has shrunk since the 1990s and the government has reduced mandatory service over the years - from two years to four months. There's now an active debate about extending it. For the first time in decades, polls show a majority in favour.
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When I was in high school and college, we had to train with guns, though we never shot them. We had to learn to open them up, clean them, close them, know how to hold them, march in formation, etc.
I am pretty sure we would have been just a "speed bump" if the mainland Chinese invaded at that time. 555
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When I was in high school and college, we had to train with guns, though we never shot them. We had to learn to open them up, clean them, close them, know how to hold them, march in formation, etc.
I am pretty sure we would have been just a "speed bump" if the mainland Chinese invaded at that time. 555
@taiwan_girl said in Taiwan:
When I was in high school and college, we had to train with guns, though we never shot them. We had to learn to open them up, clean them, close them, know how to hold them, march in formation, etc.
I am pretty sure we would have been just a "speed bump" if the mainland Chinese invaded at that time. 555
How could you use them if you didn't shoot them?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@taiwan_girl said in Taiwan:
When I was in high school and college, we had to train with guns, though we never shot them. We had to learn to open them up, clean them, close them, know how to hold them, march in formation, etc.
I am pretty sure we would have been just a "speed bump" if the mainland Chinese invaded at that time. 555
How could you use them if you didn't shoot them?
@taiwan_girl said in Taiwan:
When I was in high school and college, we had to train with guns, though we never shot them. We had to learn to open them up, clean them, close them, know how to hold them, march in formation, etc.
I am pretty sure we would have been just a "speed bump" if the mainland Chinese invaded at that time. 555
How could you use them if you didn't shoot them?
Exactly. Not sure what the point was - I guess just getting us prepared. LOL
@mik I think so. We would just be a slow down bump.
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Taiwan's VP stopped over and gave a speech in the US. The CCP conducts another military drill crossing the median line in the Taiwan strait.
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Hours before the drills, U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of South Korea and Japan agreed at Camp David to deepen defence and economic cooperation, while reaffirming "the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait as an indispensable element of security and prosperity in the international community."
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Yeah, both those things (VP visit to US and Japan/South Korea meeting with President Biden) have been big news.
I think that mainland China overestimated its' influence and attitude. Over the past few years, there has been a very obvious change in the tone of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China. It diplomats were nicknamed the Foreign Ministry wolves. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was the leader and he was recently replaced. So internally, they may be understanding their recent approach is "oops!", not the right one.
