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- grafician-1
"Reactions to Xi's speech opening China's Communist Party Congress"
https://www.reuters.com/world/ch…
"Mao Zedong promised to make people revolutionaries. Deng Xiaoping promised to make them rich. Xi is promising to keep them safe."
"It is obvious that security is Xi's greatest concern. His narrative is - China faces many dangers, the country is in a war-like state, figuratively, and he is the saviour. With this narrative, he can get people to unite around him.
"In the past, Chinese leaders based their legitimacy on their ability to provide economic growth. Now with the economy slowing, Xi tries to shift the basis of legitimacy from economic growth to security - that he can be the one who saves and protects China."
- Krassy0
latest coronavirus numbers:
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- Krassy1
China hardens resolve to defy US, even as it speaks of cooperation; Li Keqiang calls for close trade relations
- shapesalad2
Some things to note, not easy to invade Taiwan. As soon as the CCP makes a move the world sees it - unlike Ukraine, it'll take a fair amount of time to get ships across the Taiwan Straight to Taiwan.
The Taiwan strait is not a padding pool - it's a rough sea. There's only one ideal season/time to cross it each year, else the weather will make it difficult. For the CCP to keep their invasion supplied, reinforced, it won't be easy to keep sending ships across. Due to the aforementioned and the fact that Taiwan allies can easily pick off ships as they cross.
Taiwan has guerrilla advantage, it's mountainous, lots of vegetation. When Japan occupied it, they didn't take the South East area of Taiwan, as the indigenous taiwanese tribes knew their mountains like the back of their hands and would regularly behead Japanese soldiers that entered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu…