Quote (Prox1m1ty @ 28 Feb 2023 04:57)
Is that reaction by the US, the same as Russians invasion of Ukraine, in your opinion?
If the US threatened military action, that is obviously not helpful at all. I don't think a Chinese base on the Solomon islands is helpful either.
I also think its difficult to draw any obvious comparison between the Russia Ukraine situation, either than really Taiwan and China; Even then it is not 1:1.
It is important to point out that opposing Russia's invasion does not automatically mean that I support everything the US/NATO does or has done. There have been abhorrent acts committed in the name of "Western values" when really it was a military industrial complex gone insane.
At the same time, it is not helpful to constantly frame the discussion about Ukraine with arguments about the Vietnam war, threats over a Chinese naval base in the Solomon islands or "insert anti west point scoring propaganda" here.
Ok now you are going back to how you talk three months back.
Let me explain my point of view.
Whether is there a Chinese base in Solomon Islands or not is a decision that is made between two sovereign countries in a strategic partnership.
The same can be said between Ukraine and Nato / EU it is their sovereign decision and their government's decision.
Whether the US /Australia or Russia feeling threaten has got nothing to do with Sovereign nations making their own decisions.
That being said, because these are superpowers we are talking about, they work in a different manner and more often than not, goes against the United Nations and rules that are being laid out. This is a reality, it is something we cannot prevent.
That is why I would like to have more Super powers, USA , EU ( without NATO ) , Russia , Asean , United Africa and even United South America to keep everyone in check.
To understand why some of us are Anti West, which we are not. We are just Anti US Government.
I don't see the Chinese or even us in South East Asia being Anti EU, Anti Australia, Anti Scotland etc etc. This is where I think you get it quite wrong. It is not Anti West. It is Anti US Government.
The Vietnam war was a pragmatic move by the United States, a lot of people are against it , but there are also some of us who are happy that it happened. Because it prevented and exhausted the Red Wave from moving down South to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
The Ukraine war is , in my opinion is a Democrat led event and I look at it more as a personal reason to trigger it by some bigwigs in the American political scene rather then something strategic.
Like I said, although Trump is not the most savvy President. He would have prevented it from happening. And Putin would have sat down and made some arrangements and negotiations and this wouldn't have happened.
This is just my opinion.
As for China and Taiwan. It is basically and technically a North and South Korea.
It is a ceasefire.
North and South Korea will reunify one day , whether in the next 50 or 100 years they will still reunify.
The same goes for China and Taiwan.
The only numbers we will be concern with is how many people will be dead if the reunification isn't peaceful.
And if a reunification in Taiwan happens in 2030.
I will wait for the world to sanction China and Hong Kong so the property market will collapse aboud 60% to 70% so I can grab a few . Because I am leaving some cash in Hong Kong and moving 80
% of what I have back to Singapore. This post was edited by Hamsterbaby on Feb 27 2023 03:21pm