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- Retired Air-Vice Marshal Sean Bell speaks to Sky News about the growing tensions between China and Taiwan.
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"Politicians don't mind starting wars, because they always send others to fight it."
Big yess
Old people disagreeing young people dying
Cold war
And they will be nice and safe hundreds
Of feet down in their bunkers, while the
rest of us will Fry. 🔥☢️🔥☢️🔥☢️
"Im 14 and I find this deep" moment
Yes of course government officials with 0 training or physical fitness let Soldiers who have trained for decades do their job which they enlisted for
just want to point out that during WW2, the Japanese didn't launch the attack on Pearl Harbor from Taiwan. The Japanese carriers departed from Kuril Islands, now ruled by the Russians. The Japanese did launch the attack on the Philippines from Taiwan.
Yeah Hitokappu bay in kurile island
whatever
Haha
The attack code happens to be related to Taiwan.
apparently this guy just wanna talk whatever he wants:)
Taiwan was not used to launch the Pearl Harbour attack, Japan launched the attack from the Kuril Islands in 1941.
Yes, but that would not fit the narrative of that military guy. He wants to portray Taiwan as an island where cruel dictatorships (then Japan, now China) start their attacks on innocent little puppies on a beach in Pearl Harbour. Therefore China must not ever get a hold on Taiwan (to attack Pearl Harbour).
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Taiwan was a part of Japan.
at the same time, planes departed from Taiwan to attack US base in Clark ( Luzon, Philippine), Philippine was a US colony
America saved a lot of Chinese and Russian people during WWll.
My guess there is another aspect not discussed in this video - China has proven itself to be very smart about their long term strategies. Therefore, unlike Russia, it probably acknowledges that war would destroy so much valuable assets, businesses and technological developments cultivated for decades in Taiwan. War would basically make that island useless from economical perspective, making in addition tens of millions hostile citizens living there.
i agree, always treat the enemy seriously or else
@Dord Dord There are only 23,000,000 people in Taiwan.
destroying taiwan means denying their chipsets to the west, in addition to finally ending chinese civil war. they'd do it.
@@peterroycroft6433 so tens of millions lol
@@peterroycroft6433 thanks for the figure,
He concludes: ‘I see no reason the balance is interrupted’ ….. right, he and all the other experts said exactly the same on Ukraine situation 10+ months ago.
That’s all they care. They don’t care about Taiwanese at all
Well said.
China is not USA or Russia..they dont go to war that easily..China is much more wise then USA and RUssia..how many wars and attacks in last 100 years were by USA and RUssia and how many by China..i thing for first 2 its hard to even count while China is 0
@@annan7728 totally agree. Taiwan belongs to China but not to CCP. When China is no longer ruled by CCP, Taiwan will automatically reunite with China.
@@annan7728 But Taiwan had it's own indigenous population. They should form a federation instead.
China should get out of Tibet though.
Such news break my heart, political tension between countries in the past have overly been seen to escalate into sheer devastation. A case seen in the pre ukraine-Russia war period. May peace prevail
These are all provocations of well-known countries, now they are unleashing a military conflict in Serbia and Kosovo, there are shelling in Syria, Romania is being set up against Transnistria, China. In Ukraine, thousands of Russians have died in the Donbas for 8 years, no one shouted stop the genocide and freedom and independence of the Donbass, on the contrary, they supply weapons to Ukraine, show everyone and say that they are defending, but in fact they know perfectly well that they continue to use against civilians in Ukraine
Taiwan is never a country . not even America ever say Taiwan is independent.
Agreed... What are they fighting for?? Let people live in Peace. War for resources and money is a tell sign of a primitive civilization who is not wise enough to grow together in peace and harmony.
Taiwan is not a country, not like Ukraine. Today sb broke my country, tomorrow they will break a lot of countries around the world by their forces, and they want to control all of the world, not just cooperations. And China grows up quickly, but never invaded ours. We want a peaceful world and make a beautiful world under everyone’s study- hard, work-hard. Cooperation would bring us greater mutual benefit and win-win outcomes. No war, I hate the politicians fan the war
What the US wants is to create a local conflict between CHINA and Taiwan [as well as RUSSIA and Ukraine].
USA would not get involved in that war directly with CHINA.
Well, as we all know, the US cowardly only picks on small countries.
Now it is important to see CHINA's next move after Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan.
The best thing for Taiwan and CHINA is to unite as a single CHINA and thus united grow together.
The only thing the USA wants is to DIVIDE and WEAKEN by creating conflicts between nations.
Now that Nancy Pelosi is gone, Taiwan is left with the problem and uncertainty of how CHINA is going to react against Taiwan.
Mad how this has become the new match of the day
They think this is football match
What a brokey thing to say
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
This global economy seems to be working out great.
They expand it and make it more expensive so we won't own are body parts.
It was until someone started being belligerent, starting trade war CHINA and threatening to dissolve NATO. Talking about using nukes in conflicts. Almost like a middle school bully who knows not a damn thing about the subtle historic and military balances. "Trade war is easy". Genius, bigly genius.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
This little guy is just reading Taiwan's Wikipedia page!
Little boy Jinping huffs and puffs about the visit .... then does nothing.
Imagine adding land mass to those little islands.
That is what Republic of China ( Taiwan) leaders did before 1980s. They wanted to take back mainland China from CCP government after they were kicked out from mainland China to Taiwan island in 1949 during decade-long civil war.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Let's clap for the analyser, this Time he has nailed it!!!!!
He failed on the Ukraine map..LOL!
wrong
He’s a propagandist
he did? he said China had the biggest navy in the world... has he ever heard of America? WOW
@@scott6421 exactly America has the biggest nqvy in the world 🌎 not to mention the strength is double compared to theirs.u.s. airline carriers alone are 10 times more sophisticated
#PRAYFORTAIWAN
🇲🇦🤝🇹🇼
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Taiwanco 🇹🇼 need us asap from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
Free Hawaii!
I'm ok with a "one China" outcome, as long as it's Taiwan!
That is a massive framed poster of Taiwan behind Sean Bell. Love to know where they bought it. I tried Amazon but the biggest they do is only 24X36.
@TheGyre haha yeah I was joking. :)
@TheGyre it’s neither it’s the new iPhone standing behind them
@TheGyre whoosh
😂 😂
Are these the same analysts who said Ukraine is winning?
Having lived in Xiamen for 14 years and 64 + often visits to Kinmen Taiwan (prior Covid visa not renewed!) and reguarly WeChat contact on both sides of the Straits with the 'man in the street'......I like to listen to these "Qualified Experts" on western news channels - most maybe without not knowing where Taiwan is ....or even visited there, but appear very informative to us silent majority lapping up their media news!
Disastrous outcome for both countries if there should an invasion. Bad for humanities
America will sanction China only like what they did in Ukraine-Russia. They won't go all out war.
Bad for the whole environment. More waste and pollution.
hold it their !! Great outcome for Russia over Ukraine .... China will have a Great outcome too
taiwan is never a country
@@zakjuly6721 what's russians great income sanctions? Losing thousands of men and equipment? Getting humiliated
Well explained .... 👍
Taiwan is about the size of Wales but considerably more useful.
actually bigger than wales
Lol. I thought it was another episode of Ukraine war(which I’ve followed since March). Turn out to be a war analysis around Taiwan Straight(on 500km away). Good job sky news!
even though i am in ukraine, definetely not ready for another war 😓
hina brought down to its knees by nancy pelosi
When China defends it's self against Amerikkka. These guys on sky news will be speechless on sky news
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Yeah, considerably less than half that distance, at the most ridiculously longest measure.
they said the same with the sanctions on russia but the entire world has suffered and putin is laughing at us all
Because we're stupid.
Could Taiwan break the blockade should be the question. China doesn’t actually need to attack, just maintain the blockade and cut off supplies to the island to destroy its economy
Alone, Taiwan may not be in a good position, but with America's fleet, it would bring back Taiwan's sovereignty back on the playing field.
blockade works 2 ways and from an economy of scale~ the cost to Beijing, if the blockade is extended, will be far greater on Beijing itself than the loss on Taiwan's side; hence even Beijing declare the exercise to be 3 days while their military is kind of exposing their capability to every other military watching this from afar.
There are also gaps between the 6 blockade points so it's unlikely any foreign cargo ship will be shot down since the cost of the region's export will also skyrocket, cease or face a reduction in which the volume that'll affect Beijing's port kind of far exceeds the total trade of Taiwan's.
So this temporary and not complete blockade seems to be designed for Beijing's internal media than being a message sent outwardly.
@@ShosinMelotic good joke, America lost war in Vietnam and Vietnam is 15 times smaller than China. Did u know Beijing is half size of Taiwan ?
No way can china impose a blockade unless they are willing to attack American ships.Then it's game over for china.
@@ShosinMelotic That, my friend, will definitely be the start of WWIII. I could almost smell the nuclear particles dancing in the air.
Numbers don’t mean quality
The US will definitely defend Taiwan, key reason being TSMC and the dependency on semi conductors
If that happened nukes will flee on both country
I'd like to see the US try. Do it China....I really want to see how Nato and the US stand back and do FUCKALL!🤣😂
And if that happens the US will never win. Put this in your mind.
Key reason is for the US to sell arms to Taiwan. Not tsmc nor in the name of democracy. JUST TO SELL ARMS
Destabilizing China is just an unintended bonus. It's not the primary goal, noooo. What geopolitical luck.
Hooray.
Don't look behind the curtain, there is nothing there.
Wow the guy is so smart, articulate, and to the point. Well done!
I hope this comment is one that falls under sarcasm! If not then humans really can reach levels of stupidity never before seen...
He is a fool !!!
@@Richardparent879 it’s probably not stupidly but rather confirmation bias. They have been brainwashed to believe that sanctions against Russia was effective and that China would be afraid of it. All they need to do really is to read analysis from say S E Asian countries, and will understand how useless those Russian sanctions were .
Taiwan's ally in the region: Japan, S. Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia
Taiwan has 0 allies except the US. I hate what China is doing do the Uguyers and hope someone teaches them to pick on someone on there own size
Non would commit a military invasion, look at Ukraine, it is all donations
@@razal-ghul1105 Ukriane are to blame for the mess they are in. They sold out there people for US aid.
www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/ceus/eng/zt/999999999/t36717.htm
They aren’t military allies they dont even say it exists formally. They wouldn’t go before the US is already committed
they are no pushovers
Taiwan is a free independent country NOW
Hey! These guys do love war, they are analyzing it more like a football match
This sounds funny, just like "Could Alaska defend itself against US?"😄
China won't do anything
I want to be wrong on this matter but I don’t think I am. They’re taking Taiwan.
“Spare only the island.”
Is currently abounding on Chinese social media. Dissenting voices are being attenuated whereas ultranationalism is being significantly amplified.
This is a grave situation. This isn’t a social phenomena, there’s no appropriate social response. Fists are going to start flying.
Ur delusional
@silent pain release another SARS!?
Come on US🇺🇸 and Japan 🇯🇵…
It is US🇺🇸 and Japan 🇯🇵 responsibility to keep Taiwan 🇹🇼 free!!!
Japanese army is defensive not offensive one..
日本还是靠美国保护的
If US let’s go Taiwan 🇹🇼 to China 🇨🇳
US will lose two more Democratic states such as Japan 🇯🇵 South Korea 🇰🇷 due to their sea-line…
Imagine the Chinese did the same with Cuba. Their foreign minister end up in Havana, they sell military hardware to the Cuban, sail their aircraft carrier in the Caribbean and draw up an air defence zone around Cuba which partially encroach into Florida
Its quite possible that it will happen. China preparing much more steps than just drills around Taiwan and much increased military presence in Latin America is logical choice. I wouldnt be surprised if China together with Russia announced in next weeks establishing naval/air base for example in Nicaragua, or Venezuela or Cuba.
It's more like Alaska, Texas or some other breakaway region of the US. Cuba has full international recognition as an independent state, Taiwan is recognized by 180 of 193 UN member states as being part of China.
@@AFGuidesHD YOO WHAT U DOING HERE
then Taiwan is China's Cuba, why USA keeps arming Taiwan then?
imagine when China accept USA's claim on Hawaii but still arming Hawaii communists.
Oopsie someone seems to be forgetting that Japan has recently stated unequivocally that it will go to war to defend Taiwan.
Which is extremely rare assertiveness for Japan. US is involved whether they like it or not.
Taiwan was the planned base for the invasion by the U.S. and Britain of Japan during WWII because of ports, etc. Japan knows this and realizes China could use Taiwan for the same purpose, hence Japan's intention to help Taiwan. The history between China and Japan has never been friendly.
japan had to mind own business not american one
Japan is a clown
@Ivan Itchzikok they would not be destroyed, China is not the US
@@omotolaoyeniyi631 yes, PRC is much worse than USA because chinese cant supervise their government, while americans can supervise their government, so PRC has no qualms to do evil.
They should show concern for our borders let Taiwan do their own thing
Britain's borders are in danger?
No they're not he's talking about rubber dinghy's crossing the channel 🏊
This was surprisingly good for something coming out of Sky News. I thought It'd be all rah-rah Taiwan, but they have a sober view of things.
Agreed
Yeah, much better quality than DW, I’d rather think Germany is the colony of America.
Omg ! The expert just called Taiwan a country. Bonus point to him!!
Lol 😆
Eh, it doesn't mean anything. A territory can be called a country, but not be independent.
I was also glad when he called Taiwan a country
The expert did say that "Ukraine is a sovereign nation whereas Taiwan is not recognised as such." This is factually true!
The US never should have taken their military bases out of Taiwan.
We all know how much science & technology have changed our physical world for the better since the industrial revolution, but human instinct remains the same for thousands of years. African villagers fight and kill each other because of water and pasture; advanced countries build nuclear warheads to annihilate other human beings by the millions for very similar reason - domination and control of resources . We learned how to put a man on the moon, but sadly we haven’t learned how to share available resources in a peaceful manner and help each other. We’re still primitive tribes at heart.
A repetitive but true saying.
Sure why ask the public what do they think, We have no say in any of this, if we had there would be No Wars, Wars are only for the Greed of a few,
"It's not recognized universally as an independent state" and if say; Russia was supporting the independence of a breakaway region Sky News would say "Taiwan is overwhelmingly recognized as part of China"
What Sky news said is factual though. No real country recognizes Taiwan as a fully-fledged independent sovereign State and none have full diplomatic relations with Taiwan or embassy's there. All countries (with the exception of maybe 1 or 2 and the Vatican) observe the 'one China' policy agreement with China established in 1979 with US and the Taiwan Relations Act. Most of the West recognizes the independent democratically elected government of Taiwan as a separate governing entity to mainland China, but that's a separate thing to recognizing Taiwan itself as an independent sovereign State separate from China. Taiwan is basically an overseas territory of China, in the same way Gibraltar is to UK.. Gibraltar feels like a separate country to UK with its own elected government and economy, but it's still a British overseas crown territory and not a separate sovereign State. Hong Kong too has a very similar status to Taiwan with China. It's own democratically elected government (with representatives present for the Chinese Communist government) but it's still a territory of China today, after being a British overseas colonial territory for 100 years until 1999. China made a commitment to observe the autonmous democratically elected government of Hong Kong and human rights in 1997 prior to the British formal handover in 1999 and has for the most part kept its word, but as China's economic and military power grows (which is projected and expected to exceed the US by 2030), it won't take long before China takes full direct government control I expect of both Kong Hong and Taiwan eventually.
@@paullangton-rogers2390 my point is clearly the double standards in language when reporting on similar issues and that language is distinctly different when applying it to other countries e.g. China "dominates" whilst the US simply "controls".
Politics aside, the definition of an independent nation is that it has definable territorial lines and its own government controlling that territory. If Taiwan shows that, then it is indeed a separate country from China. China should have acted sooner to provide "guidance" to any wayward states to ensure they remained under Chinese recognition. It is too late now.
@@mutanthybrid3466 "it has definable territorial lines and its own government controlling that territory"
With that basis you'd support the breakaway territories of Eastern Ukraine then ?
China should be barred from UN and all should boycott China products
Although some people claimed the civil war between CCP and KMT was ended around 1949, both parties did continue claim they will re-unify the country after KMT lost and retreated to Taiwan (ROC). Obviously Taiwan is completely dismissed the idea of retake mainland China once they aware their military might will never deliver her dream but CCP in mainland China never loose their sight in unification.
Government in Taiwan will never give up their power in Taiwan (all politicians are power hungry), so mainland China will never able to unify mainland and Taiwan in peaceful way. The re-ignition of civil war between these two parties is inevitable as long as mainland China not give up their dream in unification. Personally, I do not see today is the right time for mainland China to start the military actions. As long as mainland China keep their corruption in check and maintaining its momentum in both economic development and army modernisation, give mainland China another five to eight years, they will have the ability to decide what to do with Taiwan and there is no business to the USA and her allies in Asia.
Did anyone aware the current country name for Taiwan is ROC (Republic of China), not Taiwan? Is it some degree of sarcasm for those people in Taiwan who declared themselves have no link to China with such name on their passport. To erase this trait, the current Taiwan administration changed their passport design by removed the English words (Republic of China) but still keep the Chinese version of the name (ROC) in the cover of their passport.
That is exactly what I wanted to say.
Taiwanese here. Most people these days don't want to be the "real" China. We just want to be Taiwan. Let China be China. The reason we haven't gotten around to change the official name of the country is because
1. It doesn't affect our daily lives. Don't want to bother too much with it.
2. There is small but still significant minority, usually older generation, holding on to that Chinese heritage, waiting to one day reunify China under a democratic banner.
3. China threatens us with military forces not to change the name, viewing it as a way to further distance us from being "Chinese" or outright declaring independence.
It’s very much Americas business to protect free democratic countries and isolate authoritarian ones. Russia was considered a superpower yet they can’t even conquer tiny Ukraine. All that might falls before the spirit of a free people. I have no doubt Taiwan will put up a fight and America will send weapons just like with Ukraine. China should take a lesson and leave Taiwan alone. Let them decide what they want!
@TheECSH
When ROC was strong and supported by 🇺🇸，ROC wanted to take mainland back for many years. and now when ROC is weak, people in TW suddenly don't want to be Chinese, Where is the armistice agreement?
@@TheECSH No matter how many reasons given by Taiwan government and those Taiwanese who like to tell no "link" to China, fact remains fact. Unification or not is not decided by Taiwan government or her masters, it is all depending on the future development of CCP in China and this is also a fact. No matter how much noise make under the umbrella of "Democracy" by US government and her allies, they will only interest on their gains and loss. They will never give free lunch to Taiwan and not bothering what suffer the Taiwanese will have. They will only bring death and destruction to Taiwan, same as what they brought to other countries like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan...; list just too long to continue and Taiwan might be one of them in the future.
USA is 8000 miles away from Taiwan. Logistics problems in the event of conflict???
@@mikeboydus USA won't dare to do a thing, just like in Ukraine.
@@mikeboydus the us is also obligated legally to recognize the one china policy, yet pelosi just went to taiwan in violation of it...
@@mikeboydusaccording to the one china policy (that the us claim to follow), taiwan is a province of china and members of the us government have to meet with mainland china, not taiwan.
@@mikeboydus it has never been the case that it's the second in line for presidential succession in the same party as the president, or with so many talks about recognizing taiwan's independence in the us... /shrug.
@@mikeboydus "the US government has not recognized Taiwan's independence, "
it's making moves tho, like the visit od pelosi.
It would be extremely hard to get equipment 100+ miles across the strait. It would probably be a barrage of missiles and a huge air attack
Even harder for US which is 1000's of miles away!
@@alanr2609 yeah but we have bases pretty close
@@Kuckerkarlson but your base only have small number off troop and equdiment, china has a whole warehouse of it
@@alanr2609 not really, the US planes wouldn't be shot down as they approached the island. The Chinese would have a less friendly greeting as they approached.
Plus china fail to build anything that works 100 percent so take atleast 30-40 percent of their equipment away for failures plus with us and their tech I can see china struggling not saying they will fail the ball is in their court effectively however it will be a challenge look at ukraine as an example aswell if the people don’t want it to happen they will stand and make sure it doesn’t
no reason to break the peace
Mind your own business of 50 States rather than 1 Taiwan is in China's Territory .
Has anyone noticed how the guest had everything prepared? He had his notes prepared, yet didn't read straight from paper, he explained everything clearly and interestingly. He managed to do it in short time with no meandering around different topics and explained what is the most important as quickly as possible sketching a vivid yet understandable picture in front of the viewer. Respect!
Yes, that's what a true professional looks and sounds like.
Yet, he called Taiwan a Country! 😅😅😅🤦🏻♂️
@@williamlee7782 But he also said its unrecognised
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼Taiwan 👍👍👍
Taiwan < The Great CHINA 🇨🇳 💪
Sometimes I think the world has gone mad since february 2022.
We've gone mad since the towers fell
Wars and conflicts in ancient times were much more brutal.. Especially in the times when Ghenghis Khan ruled, he burned down a Chinese city after isolating it, it became so bad the chinese back than had to resort to cannibalism to survive... according to witnesses who visited the place after the mongols were done told us.. that the floor was sticky of human fat..so brutal.. But yeah times nowadays seems worsening after a long time of improvement.
«It’s an unsinkable aircraft carrier»
Also known as… a regular Airfield?
I keep hearing how NATO will respond. NATO is a defence coalition which neither of these two countries mentioned are apart of. Taiwan has had a half century + to gain support and friends in Asia where are they now?
All Asian countries, including Japan, recognizes Taiwan as part of China so they are not getting involve in China's internal affairs.
I think the presenter accidentally insinuated Taiwan to be a country. He said "densely-populated COUNTRY"
yes and I'm Welsh and Wales regularly gets called a country but it's just a slip of the tongue.
Taiwan is indeed a de facto country, just like south korea.
He did say later Taiwan is unlike Ukraine which is a sovereign nation, but not Taiwan.
Maybe because Taiwan is a country, it has been one for more than 70 years lmfao
It Republic of China (ROC) is a country, established in 1911. When was the PRC established? 🤔
If Taiwan falls, we are all screwed.
I don’t think so. I’m quite happy to live under China instead of under the US
Why and how?
no it mean peace in the asia region no more war mongering US interfere
No your not, I heard that about Vietnam, the world would end in the domino theory. It's all bs for the banksters.
Americans' China threat theory is back. Every day think China is opposite. Please be kind. We are not American invaded a lot of countries
Short answer: 'No'
Not only is it an amphibious assault but its an amphibious assault with a narrow window of possibility, the sea is extremely rough and would be neigh on impossible to allow for such an assault for most of the year. In addition to this the nation's natural geography offers it a huge advantage, an advantage which has been expanded upon by fortification.
Now could China win militarily? Yes.
Would it be bloody? Yes.
Would it likely humiliate their army as has occurred with Russia? Almost undoubtedly.
Could they win against Taiwan alone in a bloody battle, yes..... could they win with a US battlegroup already there and the USA ready to fully commit, not a chance.
@@KnIf0rTITAN china would win usa army are not that good soory to busy your bubble
@@KnIf0rTITAN That's a good one! 😂
And would millions of Taiwanese suffer because of the BS promises from the USA just like Ukraine? Yes. We wouldn’t be having this discussion if Nancy Peabrain Pelosi wasn’t utterly thick.
@@KnIf0rTITAN HA HA HA HA All of the countries in the world witnessed what happened with the whole Aghanistan debacle. Keep on dreaming America is finished.
So far, I have yet to see any analysis on our news channels of this length and depth. We have to look to media overseas to find analysis of events that directly affect us here in the United States.
That's where I go for the global News. They use common sense and not the Donkey vs Elephant approach.
It's the same anti Chinese propaganda with more words, Taiwan is Chinese territory we have no business in
Correct...I can't find much on Ukraine either....but if I want to know about the next J. Bieber concert..no problem, right in my face 😂😂😂..btw I like JB, just a joke
@@dewaynecastan8444 Not a fan either. But he can sing better than me.😪
Americans want entertainment not news.
The Cross Channel distance traversed in Operation Overlord was nearly 100 miles, not 20 miles.
So much of a analyst.
True
Madness!! The world will explode!!
Very good insight and analysis.
It seems like Sky has stopped displaying maps of the conflict between Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Russia 🇷🇺. Why is that?
I would like to know where that conflict stands. 🤔
I have a feeling this is not a good sign for Ukraine 🇺🇦
Russia is doing nothing since 3/4 weeks
Russia is winning western propaganda do not like it
@@fitsumteklezghi3098 That makes more sense.
Zelenzky was exposed for faking battlegrounds so that’s why it went quiet in UK anyway, he even removed his wee army jumper after he was exposed 😂
@@KG-ig1ll nice lies
This man was answering questions and making statements as if this is a light matter
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
Air-Vice Marshall Bell puts out a lot of relevant information.
Economic embargo ? Who else will do te polluting industry,, especially informatics and energy storrage ?
I think Scotland can defend herself well against England.
And I do believe China will be happy to share the missiles with those nice polite and warm Scottish.
The challenge is having the military aid arrive in time.
Well China has to first start invading
There are already carrier battlegroups within striking range.
Right, the nearer the carrier get to Taiwan, it a much easier target for the DF21, that why all the other carrier are at least keeping at least in Guam or Hawaii.
crossing an ocean ain't easy for China either
What a ludicrous question.
"China has the biggest navy in the world" But only two aircraft carriers. I believe America has 11 full battle groups.
Yeah in terms of actual capacity and technology of the Navy, United States Navy can easily demolish the chinese Navy with ease.
Are the US carrier groups immune to repeated heavy salvos of anti ship missiles?
China has the biggest navy my numbers bust most of those numbers are small ships and patrol boats..... by tonnage the USA has a far bigger and far more advanced fleet of ships.
China has a larger number of ships, the USA lies in 4th place in number of ships beaten by China, Russia and North Korea.
China has more boats in total but not overall carrier fleets like the US has. For a country that has over a billion people it is logical that they could muster a larger modern conventional army. The biggest disparity between China's military rise and the current US military though, is shear experience, global logistics, alliances, backed by still remaining the largest military budget with advanced tech. The US has been active in a multitude of wars consistently since WWII which means constant gains in wartime experience, live trial/error innovation, and global logistics that really just can't be matched. It is inevitable China will eventually become the global economic leader in the next few decades, But, it will take another 1/2 century at least before truly challenge the US military for global supremacy. Hell, India is sitting in shadow and may be the one dark horse here. They are modernizing militarily really quickly as well.
Gotta update his info on Taiwan’s armed forces. He’s a bit outdated.
China can obliterate Taiwan with relative ease, but if China wants to keep the economy intact in Taiwan now that's a whole other issue.
actually not true at all, and unlike Ukraine, Taiwan has the ability to strike back on the mainland with ease, they have long range weapons, loads of US weapons in fact!
@@Mateo808 That scenario will only work if China tries to keep taiwan's economy intact. If China wants to obliterate Taiwan they can do it in a matter of days with non-stop bombings without the need for ground troops. Three tactical nukes in their major cities will end this in a matter of hours. Luckily for Taiwan, it is a strategic importance for China so China will try to prevent less damage as possible which makes defending Taiwan feasible.
@@jamesm568 The whole Chinese policy surrounding Taiwan is to 'reunite China'. So, obliterating it is not really an option. Additionally, the island of Taiwan is heavily mountainous and has a lot of natural shelter for important infrastructure should bombs drop. Not too dissimilar to Switzerland's insurance policies in the second world war.
@Richard Schiffman Possible if China doesn't want to keep Taiwan's economy intact. Now if China doesn't care less about Taiwan's economy and infrastructure then China can obliterate Taiwan with relative ease as they wouldn't have to show no mercy.
@@ukmaxi That is true which helps Taiwan tremendously as my scenario was based on if China just wants to be ruthless.
objective and professional analysis
This retired Vice... Failed to explain clearly many things. And since he was having to constantly look at his notes, (which clearly did NOT say anything about the submarine force of the Taiwanese government, nor the vast amounts of mines in the sea and on land around Taiwan).
I doubt the man has more information than what can be Googled.
IMHO
Imagine the immensity of the global economic depression if America cut off trade with China. That's not a one-way street.
china brought down to its knees by nancy pelosi
It’s probably necessary at this point and it most likely will bring a raise in economic growth to US. Since it would be forced to produce their own needs. Dependency on China goods only makes China richer and US more vulnerable to ownership from China. So I see this as a good thing not bad. Maybe is what America needs. Non importation of China goods. WWll proved this theory very well. America became the power it is today thanks to that. The production of its own goods. History may repeat and it will be probably great for America once more and may save America from the horrible policies of the Biden’s administration which are taking a toll in the economic sector and well every sector as well.
When amerika lost in Afghanistan, they blamed my Pakistan army. China would slice Amerikkka
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@@waseemyasin4475 put the crack pipe down… we don’t even know where is Pakistan. China has no balls to deal with us.. We still the most powerful army in world today..
He calls it sabre rattling but Chinese incursions are getting more frequent and with more impunity, with economic growth has also come huge defence spending.
Its not sabre rattling those manoeuvres were planned months ago no country can just do something like that off the cuff
First Ukraine vs russia now China vs Taiwan. Its always one after the other. Praying for peace🙏🙏🙏
Taiwan's territorial sovereignty belongs to China.
As the war in Ukrain has shown us, the numbers of soldiers, planes etc. are not decisive for the outcome of an invasion. The resistance from the people in Taiwan will be fierce and long-lasting. Also, China can not just transfer a big army on to Taiwan just like that, they must first of all destroy Taiwans ability to interrupt an amphibious assault before they can have boots on the ground.
@@jambojam25 lol
Ukrain is losing territory
But, we have 100 times more modern missiles that Russia does...
Ukraine no longer exists as such and in all probability the plan is to erase it from the world map
Only Russia has been using far less troops than Ukraine and barely using its air force
No, Taiwan could not defend itself for any length of time in a battle of attrition. It's military is not even close of that with China. That being said, Taiwan could cause major casualties due too it's geographic location, but ultimately be blitzed and overcome by sea, air, land in a coordinated effort.
Taiwan has a strong military power, and it only takes one day to occupy Beijing, in the dream.
China wants Taiwans infrastructure intact
At the very least the US would provide the weapons. Taiwan just has to provide the troops.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
They’ve had 70 years to prepare to defend an invasion. China’s losses would be extreme.
It's moving to see how GB and US on the other side of the world care about democracy and justice in Taiwan
I think this is Australian channel.
Taiwan (=republic of china) will be the same fate as South Vietnam in the past. I am South Korean, interestingly, in South Korea, South Vietnam was called Free Vietnam and Taiwan was called Free China.
An attack Taiwan is an attack on America
I never know what we British have done
Answer is NO. Taiwan needs military help from UK.
I don't know much about Taiwan's airforce but is it accurate to describe its fleet as "old" or is that just a distinction between 4th and 5th gen jets?
F16 aircraft are cutting edge with China having nothing that could even compete.
F16 is a very very old plane, builded in the late 60. How can it be a 4g plane. A lot of countries like even Pakistan is scrapping it for another model, the US is doing some refurbishing and quickly selling it to Taiwan. No another countries are buying such plane anymore for their air Force.
@@issactian3143 First flight 1974, constantly upgraded. Still eagerly sought by many countries.
@H L Don't forget those are russian systems, made in china. Top notch! /s
Taiwan will Defend Itself..
Good luck getting those magical HIMARS there.
@@abb7118 No need for hHIMARS. Taiwan has missiles that can reach Beijing. Or simply blow up the three-Gorges dam and flood 1/3 of China. Better learn how to swim.
How could someone asked such blind question if Taiwan could defend themselves against China.....country of 20million people defend the world of China with their industrial war equipments....silly question to ask.
Invading a country across water is a lot more difficult than it sounds. In order to defeat an entrenched enemy, most militaries work on a ratio of 4 invaders needed to overcome 1 defender. China would need to get close to 500,000 troops across 100km of seas that become rough at most times of the year. Modern missiles make ships very vulnerable in the several hours needed to cross that distance. China would also need enormous amounts of various military hardware to complete that task. It's a valid question to see whether they could muster all they need. China isn't heavy on landing ships. It's also worth looking at how the Chinese airforce would fare against Taiwan's missile defence systems. People who haven't been in or studied the military often just assume the bigger army wins. It is often not the case.
maybe they have a magic elixir?
@@wilhelmu Do they have 500,000 doses?
@@jamesf3683 lets check the mathematics a Barbarian requires 5 elixir china has 2M soldiers so 2M÷5 nope they only have 400,000 elixir thus and invasion of taiwan is IMPOSSIBLE.
@@thebarbarian3108 Who could argue against logic like that? They obviously have to up their game on magic elixir production or give up their ambitions for world domination.
For a time, yes.
Could Taiwan defend itself against China?
a very big NO.
then china should have invaded a loooong time ago? go ask your beijing handlers why they havent done so.
'Could Taiwan defend itself against China?' NOPE!
Would Taiwan ever have to defend itself against China? Nope. Japan and the USA would be involved before China had an amphibious landing ship even launched from their own territory.
Yes
Scotland tensions: Could scotland defend itself against UK?
Northern Ireland tensions: Could northern ireland defend itself against UK?
Wales tensions: Could wales defend itself against UK?
England tensions: Could england defend itself against UK?
Have I missed your punchline?
Wrong mindset. Taiwan is a independent country called r.o.c. Has our own military and foreign relationship. Also we have nothing to do with China PRC. We could live without them. It’s totally different system.
@@lordjim3109 for most chinese, TW is a part of China...it's not right to place China and TW side by side
@@WaterFallingDown ridiculous claim...so, what is "r.o.c."? ...it's Republic Of CHINA...The separatist regime...is just stealing the TW and several other islands from Chinese People...Just like a housekeeper who stole silver cutlery from his duke...and then claimed the cutlery as his own just because he used it
Taiwan is thousands of miles from Hawaii. It was not involved in any way with the Pearl Harbor attack, which was entirely based off of 6 aircraft carriers. However, Taiwan was used as a launching pad for Japan’s invasion of the Philippines, which was launched simultaneously with Pearl Harbor.
they could try but invading an island is not so easy - and let China learn a lesson from Russia , in what total dissaray their army is since feb.24 th
*🤣🤣🤣🤣 So the Ukrainians are still advancing backwards and the Russian retreating forward?. 🤣🤣🤣🤣*
@@vg9137 Yes, logic dictates that is correct and russia is retreating in its own way i suppose...
@@vg9137 RIP Moskva
Ukraine about to lost they homeland.
I hear dissaray...Really? ask Zerensky
Because of USA warmongering and arrogance we could soon send our "prayers and thoughts to brave people of Taiwan" like we did for Ukraine.
😂 Russia has well and truly put its foot in it. It’s turning into a shadow of its former self and massively poor than it could have been.
With how things are in China right now if they try the same kind of rabid imperialism things will go very bad for China
What warmongering? The US hasn't issued any threats.
USA warmongering, yeah just like russia china calls all 70 plus western countries war mongers as they go and build illegal islands in teh ocean and start tellign other countries what they can and cant do and bully every county in the pacafic.... if china was the victim its strange that there closest friend is russia and russia has very little friends as well there both pen pals with china and north korea
@@kentonian Imperialism 😂😂 US has that down to a fine art
How's life on your third world country?
China does not need to attack… there are so many ways other than military. There are also many people in Taiwan who are pro unification. But as we all know that will never appears on any of the western media.
As a Taiwanese, your statement is completely false. More than 80% people in Taiwan are AGAINST unification.
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Only about 10 percent support red unification.
But supporting other forms of unification does go far beyond that
Well said
Could we protect ourselves against our own goverments?
No Sht, the govorments want war, but they are forgetting we arnt in 1940 anymore, people at home can hack govornment equipment. Drones, nukes, they are soon to learn from new kinds of devastating mistakes
Russbot
That's a much better question
Stoking two major conflicts in 6 months, that's a record for US Democrats
UK needs to cut ties with U.S ,no excuse for war .
Of course, China are not bullying US allies in SE Asia or anything.
3:10 about the 20 miles in WW2. The attack was on Omaha Beach which is located around 100 Miles away from Englands South coast. They did not attack Calais where the distance would only be 20 Miles, but might not be that important for a journalist to do his work correctly.
Airborne went first on D day dropped behind lines to cut of communications etc. Also Germany didn't have many of their top units on the coast in Normandy Taiwan will have it's China facing coastline ready for sure.
A big No!!!
The guest is wrong about Taiwan history after WWII. Taiwanese never ruled Taiwan by themselves but have been always governed by Chinese government. Taiwan was back to Chinese government after WWII when China won Japan. The government rules whole China, the Mainland and Taiwan, was the Republic of China at that time. China had civil war later. The result was that the Republic of China lost and escaped to Taiwan.
The reason why China want Taiwan back, other than sovereignty, another important reason is the people. ‘水能载舟亦能覆舟’- Water can carry a boat but can also capsize it. The government have to do what the majority of people want, if anything, that's the only and the biggest threat of subversion to them.
Since the UK and the USA dishonored their commitments to defend the Ukraine, Taiwan and my country of Australia cannot have any confidence that the USA will defend Taiwan or Australia.
Regards,
Geoff. Reeks
Now, why should they defend, something that in an internal Chinese matter.
the international malaise towards the subversion of HK democracy is at least partly accountable for this.
@Concerned Citizen - to be fair they had to give back the new territories because the land was only leased for 100 years and sadly HK and Kowloon didn’t have any way to power itself so there was little alternative. However there should have been more policing of democracy and possibly a better/differently structured handover
@Concerned Citizen it was on lease
@Concerned Citizen But Hong Kong has developed better than before, at least without the interference of Hong Kong independence elements.
Help Catalunya Independence and other world regions. Democracy win for separation in Barcelona... Let's divide all the world! 1 Building 1 country MOVEMENT!
Oh shhi... Barcelona no OIL .. no chips.. wtf
LETS BLOCK SPAIN
I don't need the prices of everything to go up anymore than it already has
Taiwan reunification with Her Mother sooner than expected.