The 5 REASONS for XI JINPING'S OBSESSION with TAIWAN - VisualPolitik EN
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The fact is that during the last few years the Taiwan issue has been gaining more and more prominence on the international agenda... And especially on the agenda of Xi Jinping's Chinese government. In fact, after the visit to the island of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, the tension reached levels not seen in decades. A situation that has put several questions on the table:
Why is there so much sudden interest in Taiwan? Why did Xi Jinping's government lose so much steam after Pelosi's visit? What will Beijing's next step be? What risks does Taiwan really face in the near future? In this video we tell you all the details.
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How did the Pacific ocean became a part of the Indian ocean? Was it a typo error or something 😂 at 5:59
it's pretty embarrassing to confuse the Pacific oceacn with the Indian.
International community will do nothing.
Taiwan has always been a Independent Country!
4:25 That is exactly what Trump did in the U.S. To divert the spotlight away from his daily scandal, He pulled a fake enemy out of his hat.
Got are his supporter stupid!
Japan adjusted their constitution to the effect that if China moves on Taiwan, it would be perceived as a direct threat to Japan’s severity. Being that the US and Japan military ties are stronger now than at any time in history, you get an idea how this will unfold.
Well that is a good thing and I commend Japan for doing that Japan is also 70 years too late to this party Japan has never kept up with its military readiness and training to do an expeditionary force that would come to the defense of Taiwan on top of that Japan has barely any military industrial complex that can supply its forces meaning one or two government contractors and those government contractors are strictly limited to supply only just the Japanese forces meaning there is no competition for those contractors and therefore they have no incentive to innovate and give the Japanese soldiers and the Japanese military better equipment that has been tested by militaries around the world
Japan must rearm as soon as possible.
@@rejvaik00 the point of japan doing this isn't mainly to throw their army at China, but to throw the U.S. Military at China and act as a launch point for the U.S. Army; and if their lucky the U.S.'s regional allies like Australia too.
@@nerdlingeeksly5192 as I've said I'm glad it happened but yes sadly the Japanese will be playing second fiddle if they ever attempted to do military conflict with China
@@rejvaik00 Japan has one of the most powerful navies in the world. I'm sure they'd be fine.
One of the biggest geopolitical mistakes of recent times (other than the Ukraine invasion) was how China handled the takeover of Hong Kong. They reneged on the promise of one country 2 systems that they had agreed to in the terms of Hong Kongs return. That sent a very clear signal to Taiwan that negotiating any kind of integration with the PRC was a fools errand.
So what you are saying is that a dictator lied. What a shocker.
@@MrJdsenior no kidding. but we always seem to forget that :-(
also, the guys in charge in 1997 who agreed to the 50 years of HK's Lessaize-Faire isn't the same guy now running Xina.
@@MrJdsenior You have to understand the context. Many Taiwanese supported cutting a deal with China similar to Hong Kong and in fact Taiwanese pro China politicians were gaining popularity. After Hong Kong went bad it made the pro peace with China crowd look like fools and any traction they gained gone.
@@rodofgod5262 I think what happened to Hong Kong, saved the Taiwanese people from the same fate. It was a big wake up call that the CCP can't be trusted. Ever!
Xi Jinping needs to be held accountable publicly in a court of law for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity for the 1m held in concentration camps and organ harvesting in Xinjiang. Taiwan is an INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY 🇹🇼
@@PravinDahal You are a CCP bot Aka... China's 50c army!!! An army of Internet trolls hired by the CCP to spread their propaganda BS. Don't fall for this crap people.
You need to go to China arresting Xi. How do you figure the court has jurisdiction over Xi?
Taiwan is neither independent or a country but it is democratic 🤷🏾♂️
@@sharwama992 Wrong!!! They have there own currency, passports, president. Sounds like a country to me!!! Typical CCP picking on the little guy.... Just like Russia!!!
@@sharwama992 Idk, China seemed pretty unable to do anything about the U.S officials parading through Taiwan recently. You would have to be insane to think it isn't independent by this point.
Taiwan is a symbol of how when people work together, so much can be accomplished.
When people are happy and free, they can do more and become more.
Taiwan was also a similarly oppressive dictatorship until it democratized. What irritates Beijing most is how Taiwan provides living depiction of what 華人 could be without the Party.
@@doujinflip Yup, the Republic of China KMT government weren't exactly nice to the locals when they retreated to Taiwan in 1949. Look up 228 incident and the White Terror that ensued.
Taiwan was under a military dictatorship for a very long time...
@@adelatorremothelet it took the death of Chiang Kai shik and his Elder son passing in the mid to late '80s that Taiwan begins its democratization movement. Many of those who tried before then were either executed, tortured, or incarcerated.
@@willywonka4340 What was it that General Joe Stilwell said about Chaing Kai? "He is an SOB, but at least he is OUR SOB."
There is another lesson from Ukraine that must be applied to our attempts at predicting Chinese actions against Taiwan. That is that the leaders of countries do not always behave in purely rational ways. Their decisions can seem as stubbornly resistant to obvious facts as it is possible to be. They can suffer from bad intelligence, poor planning, internal corruption, and more. Authoritarian leaders do tend to attract greedy sycophants that breeds corruption disguised as loyalty. The logical course of action is therefore not necessarily the most probable choice.
Completely agree. They are not rational, but that is not how they think to begin with.
Putin's decision to drag out his ambitions in Ukraine makes literally no sense, especially at this point where it should be clear there is nothing to be gained by furthering aggression. And yet he continues to drag the war out, furthering the suffering and death.
But does he care? No. And chances are good neither does Xi when it comes to Taiwan.
@@Pouncer_Fox always easier to dispose of anyone opposed to your rule when you can brand them as traitors in the midst of a patriotic war than it is in peacetime. For a dictator, it is sometimes better to pick an external fight you cannot win, to ensure victory against your enemies at home. The paranoia and brutality of that logic is chilling, but it is a well-worn tactic favored by authoritarians of every stripe throughout history. For Putin, it may be better to lose Ukraine than to lose power. Might Taiwan fall prey to similar motives?
Yeah, bad intelligence, in more ways than one.
"Sycophants" you either read the dictionary or play darkest dungeon
Taiwan would be far to easy for the Chinese unlike Ukraine because Taiwan is an island, they would totally blockade the island
A blockade is an act of war. By any understanding. Blocking Taiwan, endangering US and Japanese security is not a card in FAVOUR of China, but quite the contrary. Doing this they just obligates those two powers to enter in a conflict.
Do you actually think America will go to war with China if china puts a blockade on Taiwan? Lol!
It's explicitly spelled out as such in the Taiwan Relations Act. At a minimum the US would just send ships through the blockade and have a strike ready to kick off the moment China engaged them. A blockade would be the stupidest option as the US is guaranteed to respond and would only give up preparation time and initiative to them.
@@jonb914 not just USA will respond. NATO will respond Australia will South Korea will New Zealand will Japan will
I am not saying Russia Iran North Korea and China friends won’t respond to. But it will be a show down in the South China Sea
Blockading Taiwan will be an act of war on Taiwan. The US and Japan will be declaring war on China if they forcibly try to break the blockade. The US and Japan are in no position to declare war on China. China is waiting for an opportunity to massacre the Japanese in revenge for world war 2. The Japanese will not be so eager to give China that opportunity for revenge. The US knows very well that it can't beat China. It already tried and failed during the Korean war when China was very weak, the China of today would crush the US. You are very naive. 😅
@@jonb914 lol. Do you know how America operates military? Do you know what America does to countries deemed a national security risk? When was the last time America wanted to avoid war?
You're naive as you don't know why America hasn't declared war on china yet.
America will do nothing besides watch when China invade Taiwan.
我愛台灣🇹🇼
I find it perplexing that people anoint China as "One of the worlds two great superpowers" even though its never won any meaningful modern conflict. Analysts dramatically overestimate the value of lots of military equipment. If we've learned anything from the Ukraine war of 2022 its that perception and reality are two very different things and nations crippled by incompetence and corruption are unlikely to prevail regardless of their numeric strengths.
Well, being labeled a superpower isn't something about winning wars. It's more about the overall global influence of a given power.
And China is, undoubtedly, the second most influential country of the world.
Russia, on the other hand, is the fossile, the remains of a dead superpower with delusions of grandeur. They've been trying really hard, for the last twenty years, just to remain relevant internationally, while mostly Russia is a simple raw materials seller. The recent war has left this quite clear.
interesting! didn't vietnam beat the crap out of china not too long ago?
China is regarded as an economic superpower... not as a military superpower
Being heavyweight is a matter of having a body weighted at more than 90 kg. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The CCP and Kremlin should have learned that lesson from the conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan, too.
Blockades work in both directions. Blockading oil routes from Middle east to China will hurt more .
Taiwan is dependt on western inputs to maintan the production of chips, trying to threathen the west with taiwan because of chips will only work in the very short term.
I also hope that the Chinese have considered that their undersea infrastructure like cables, etc can be cut as well. Their water, comms , power are also not completely invulnerable.
@@emmanuelpettersen7676 Your reading history upside down. Democracies don't go away and neither does autocratic incompetence. Watch Ukraine and Putin's fate over coming months and learn, slow-bot.
@@CONCEPTUALMAN Stealthy things do excellent work with infrastructure of autocrats also.
@@CONCEPTUALMAN do you know what you're getting yourself into with the actions you want made on China? Every action has a reaction conceptual man.
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I'm pretty sure that performing an economic blockade is recognised as an act of war in the Paris Declaration of 1856 to any country recognising Taiwan as independent, e.g. the USA.
Would that mean China would be blockading itself and therefore it would be an act of war on itself?
CCP could try to frame it as "special waterway operation" 😆
@@chinesesparrows There doesn’t need to be anything special about it. Their civil war is on going.
Exactly, we wouldn't sit idly regardless of what the pundits say. Also, if they blockade, Taiwan could strike numerous Chinese ports and inland infrastructure.
The USA doesn't recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation... good luck trying to find a Taiwanese embassy.
The Island of Taiwan have it own indigenous people Chinese migrated to the island and claims it as there own.
Yet it is the Chinese who migrated there that shout independence so loudly
Same to champa
Xi will be less ambitious if Putin has a tragic end. There have been public grumbling in Russia after the Ukraine Kherson and Kharkiv offensive.
The only outcome that could come from the public grumbling is declaration of war and the take over of the government by ultra nationalist .
Nothing good for Ukraine or the west
*Hello from Russia 🇷🇺 No war*
So how are things there?
Blink twice if you need American Twinkie’s air dropped in
@@khalidhayat6461 Ukraine is without electricity now, what a pity
@@cyrilsuperkonar3422, and Russia is without a northern army now, what a pity. They were all captured, killed, or just ran way, like the cowards they are. Russia is losing, and will ultimately lose the war...🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Just special military operations.
Standing together, with strong action, to support, and defend Taiwan. Is all you can do, against a bully.
what bully? China wants what's rightfully its territory. The bullies want to impose colonial borders on China. Japan stole Taiwan and it was given back when Japan lost world war 2. Read a history book. You probably think Hong Kong was bullied as well. How naive. 😅
2 Things:
1. ERROR. I believe you have incorrectly identified the large ocean mass at 5:58. It should reflect the Pacific, not the Indian. The Indian Ocean is in the other direction of the country. Though I highly enjoyed and learned everything else you provided.
2. CHINA'S LIMITED WATERS IN TAIWAN STRAIGHT. One of the major interests that China would like to officially and legally take charge of is the national waters of the Taiwan straight. In international politics, the waters surrounding any island of a country would extend the national waters of that country. The islands of Jinmen, Wuchiu, Penghu, Makung, Oluan, and Lan all extend the national waters of Taiwan...that would internationally "cock-block" China from it's ability to control its waters surrounding its own land. Jinmen Island, Taiwan, is just a matter of miles from Xiameo, Fuijan, China. Wuchiu is 42 miles/67 Km East/NE of Quanzhou Bay, Fuijan, China; 26 miles/41 Km directly East of the Qianhai Peninsula off of mainland China; and less than 10 miles/16 Km SE from Luci Islands, China. This severely limits China's 200 miles of exclusive economic maritime zone identified in Ch 21 of the UN Law of the Sea...that China signed. This would also impede their authorization in those waterways via what is internationally recognized as territorial waters and contiguous zone. This doesn't bode well with the China's sea port in Quanzhou and Xiamen cities.
The Turks also have the same problem with the Greeks.
USA treats Kimen and Matzu part of China. They are not under Taiwan relation Act. However USA does help Taiwan defending them indirectly.
Glad I wasn't the only one to spot the Indian Ocean mistake
The offshore islands are unable to put up any meaningful resistance against an overwhelming invasion force.
Hope the outpost can post an early warning buying valuable time for the main ROC forces.
NGL. The Indian Ocean being south of Japan made me do a double take at that part of the video.
China got a bloody nose messing with India. It would be suicide to try to take Taiwan. China's Army is not even a good a Russia's so China should expect a much worse loss than Russia is now receiving. China buys Russian military equipment when it can't make something better, and even Russian things considered very good, like the S400 can't compete with relatively inexpensive kit that Ukraine has. So China buys S400 and jet engines, but Taiwan has much better gear than Ukraine has. It would be an even more lopsided loss.
CHINAS army is better than Russia
Russia is only number two because of nukes
Don't forget that one of the most perilous thing an army does, is to cross water. If Taiwan can prevents China from crossing the strait for 24 hours (or push them back if necessary), the US and Japan will have a field day to not just to bloody China's nose but break China's jaw as well in the process.
😆😆😆Lmao bloody nose? They literally beat the s htt outta india and i can show you some real clips of that not fake sources
@@didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 source: trust me bro
The break away province of west Taiwan at it again Daniel
Glass hearts ya see! Oh, and they have easily removable red lines (for your convenience). 😉
I think the embarrasment of the russian military and crumbling of their economy under sanctions might give the chinese food for thought
China was never going to act as Russia to begin with. The timing is stupid. China is destroying the west either ways. A war would just halt chinas economic takeover even more.
Russia's revenues increased more than 30% since the conflict because, guess what, Europe only amounts to 12% of the world in terms of population. Many others will pay for gas. The sanctions did nothing and Russia's military is the greatest-ish military power worldwide. Not defending them but not many would define this as 'crumbling' and 'embarrassment'. Certainly not China.
@@elgrillogarratz168 Well guess what, Europe might amount to 12% of the world's population, but amounts to 50% of Russia's revenues from oil and gas. And it's extraction industry for these resources is almost entirely dependent on Western know-how and technology, which are now gone. And China doesn't have the capability to bridge this gap. You don't have to be an economist to know how this is going to play out medium to long-term.
@@elgrillogarratz168 fossil fuel revenues did increase their economy in general is on its knees because they can't get parts in our products out. Back to the gas guess where they sell most of their gas and how it gets there. Think before you post.
@@meocean5499 your right really they are far more pragmatic and it's mostly just bluster. It will be interesting in years to come when the West starts to withdraw more and more manufacturing and investment from China
Now if China tries to attempt to blockade Taiwan I expect them to reduce or stop chip deliveries to China.
And the very delicate factories would not survive an invasion.
If China tries to invade US and EU will also enforce strong sanctions who would do wonders to an troubling economy.
Also hope Chinese air defenses works well. Lots of easy to break things there to.
Taiwan already stopping deliveries of Up to date Chips to Chinese companies.
US and EU sanction are already being made to Destroy China's economy.
China has not invaded but USA and EU have already placed hundreds of Sanctions on China.
1. Chip4 already is blocking chip exportation to China. 2. CSIS think tank's comment: If China land on Taiwan, bomb TSMC.
Winnie the Pooh and his paper tiger of a military has absolutely no chance of taking Taiwan, especially with the whole free world on Taiwan side.
More specifically - especially with internet warriors like you on Taiwan's side
@@troy5094 Hey Wumao, go kick rocks. No one cares about your Wumao opinions or trolling ways. Please refrain from being butt hurt, it brings additional embarrassment to you and your Chinese government.
@@troy5094 🤣😂Ghost of taipe soon
Taiwan is a country.
Well... not according like 98% of the world. But close enough. More like an autonomous region of China that everyone wants to stay autonomous.
not for long
@@MetallicReg Hahaha. You’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer, huh?
Taiwanese are human beings and should be able to determine their future.
@@G0TIMAN Wow, a CCP sympathizer.
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Taiwan is CCP’s “break glass in case of domestic unrest” button.
This thing with Taiwan is not new China has been doing this for decades. Yes it is a way to Curry propaganda in favor with their own populace wave their sword and beat their chest.
China’s military games around Taiwan was effectively a blockade of Taiwan because merchant ships and planes couldn’t enter the area around Taiwan. The problem being that it also acted as a blockade of China itself as much of the shipping traffic to Beijing and other big costal shipping must go through the Taiwan strait. They can’t militarily blockade Taiwan without inflicting severe damage on their own economy.
I read they are going back to a planned economy. Also the belt and road can replace the ships if many latch onto it. That Taiwan straight is particularly for western countries
nonsense, a blockade on Taiwan is not a blockade on mainland China. Ships and planes can always find other routes.
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@@Moabi4 nonsense speaker
@@antixocialman its the truth. The truth hurts.
@@Moabi4 I’m American. We weather it fine
Great work Thank you
The free country of Taiwan and the free world stands against the evil ccp everyday
I have plenty of criticisms of the CCP, but as an outsider I'm not quite ready to call them evil, at least not until they actually invade Taiwan or provide assistance to Russia...
Sadly the free world no longer includes the u.s. or canada... and maybe not Australia
@@assertivekarma1909 What would it take to call them evil by your measurement?
Was not the brutal crackdown of the student protests in Tiananmen Square enough?
Was the disappearance of political dissidents not enough?
Was welding people's doors shut and leaving them to starve to death in their apartments and home to prevent the spread of the Wuhan Flu not enough?
Was the fascistic crushing of Hong Kong not enough?
Is the forced sterilization of particular minorities not evil?
What will the CCP have to do before you finally acknowledge that they are truly evil.
@@davidford3115 ok, I was leaving a strategic olive branch open, regarding concerns on the horizon... You are essentially correct.
@@shadowmancer7040 The wumao are getting more sophisticated. If your one dont try to do your projection bs please. We know what authoritian trolls do: delfect, project, spread lies (whether knowing or not), or spamming out irrelevent info to drown out free speech. Please stop doing this despicable job if you are that is...its not worth your self respect.
The U S and the West should recognize Taiwan as a sovereign and free nation and establish full diplomatic, military and economic relations with Taiwan.
I think that’s the idea. I see many law makers are going from the west. France just sent delegation . Canada is in October. Germany I think sent. Eu is sending members .
I think the more countries to begin formal diplomatic endeavors with Taiwan will have an affect on their UN status. It might help to get Taiwan recognized as its own sovereign nation
@@antixocialman The US and the West need to speed up the process of recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign nation.
@@garykaplan7728 agreed
and that will be the end of Taiwan as you know it. China will take it over just like they took over Hong Kong. And all the west would do is make noise like what they doing with Ukraine. China is waiting for the west to give it a reason to take over the island.
@@antixocialman Its hilarious how you people think. If the west declared Taiwan independent today 80% of the world would still not recognize it. It would be same think like when the west claimed Guaido was the president of Venezuela. The entire world laughed at the delusional western leaders. And China would take over Taiwan and the west would do nothing about it just like they are doing nothing about Ukraine. You people are very naive, the west doesn't have that much power and influence. They can't even get others to sanction Russia, imagine asking the world to sanction China, they would laugh at you. China is the biggest trading partner of most countries in the world.
Slight typo at 6:07 that’s the pacific not the Indian Ocean
Better have referendums in Taiwan, Texas, Catalonia, Scotland, Kashmir, Papua, etc. Splitting countries based on the ruling tribes and cultures has worked well for USSR and Sudan
But why in Taiwan it is already separated
Various places in the US have referendums all the time. The US has even returned some territory to Mexico. Puerto Rico is an outlier where the residents voted to be become a state while the rest of the US wishes it would become its own country, which it is free to do.
@@ShubhamMishrabro To let Chinese know that they should leave Taiwanese alone
@@jaydee6268 Let's see once the firearm regulations gets much tighter in the future
1946 TIME:
“Thoughtful Chinese on the mainland began to agree with the Formosans. Said Ta Rung Pao, China's counterpart of the New York Times: "Fundamentally speaking, China was not qualified to take over . . . she lacks the men . . . technique . . . commodities . . . capital. She governs, but is inefficient. She takes, but she does not give. This is the government's shame."
Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice-Japan.”
After USA shipped KMT to occupy Taiwan in 1945.
You failed to mention something of great importance! The basic & rather visceral conviction & essential nationalist duty to complete Mao's revolution! Taiwan also represents the final nail in the coffin of Chinese colonial humiliation. And somewhat akin to America's manifest destiny...
How is Taiwan and the KMT colonial humiliation? It was the Chinese Nationalists who overthrew the Qing Dynasty and asserted independence from European colonialist ambitions.
Umm .. no. Mao himself asserted that Taiwan was not a part of China. But he later reversed it and said Taiwan was part of China. Maybe because Jiang Jie Shi stubborn occupation of the island.
@@davidford3115 May be true, but it many minds it remains a thorn in the total unification, which has always been hampered by colonial vestiges. Also represents China having to bend to the will of other world nations. China feels, I believe, it's time other countries should bend to it's will ?
@@davidford3115 Read Taiwan history. FYI Europe is not the only one having colonial ambition
@@manguanxu3612 Oh, I agree. China has historically been a colonizing power. Zheng He's treasure fleet was all about exerting colonial power over subject and vassal nations. And of course, Japan in the 1930s had colonialist expansionism, though they were quickly broken of those ambitions.
The ROC was established in 1911 when the Qing Dynasty fell.
The communists couldn't take Taiwan in the chinese civil war and topple the ROC government to replace them with the communists. They declared independence in 1949 to establish a new country called the Peoples Republic of China on the mainland where they have control. That is how you get 2 countries. If the communists didn't declared independence from ROC they in theory have a claim to Taiwan because its still one country.
Sorry China but you shot yourself in the foot in 1949 by declaring independence when the chinese civil war ended. This is now a war between 2 independent countries.
If you have learned anything about communist, it is that they ALWAYS re-write history. "Good facts" which uphold the fictions of the CCP are always more correct than "real-facts" which contradict the narrative.
Okay bro 😂
Every wonder what country the communists belong to before 1949? Were they stateless like illegal aliens living in China's mountains? aka rebels
ROC had a Chinese consulate in Taihoku, Formosa in 1930s.
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Visual politik I feel I should remind you that any form of a blockade is seen as an act of War by international law meaning no China will not blockade the Taiwanese island
And expect them and the rest of the world to negotiate
Depends on how they do it. If they just do "wargames" in the area of Taiwan's ports, ships wont be able to pass through safely, but they can pretend it isn't a blockade. Countries have lots of options for engaging in hostilities without it technically being a war.
@@ThatGuy-bz2in you can't do "war games" that would last for months
China attempted to do these war games after Pelosi landed and they only lasted a couple days and they cost Chinese military hundreds of thousands of dollars in operating costs
Sorry but no China has no ability to circumnavigate international law when it comes to attempting to blockade the Taiwanese island
If they attempt to blockade Taiwan it's an act of war and then there is now justification for Japan the US and its allies to come in there and push them away and let Taiwan have its ability to open its ports once more
As a partial Taiwanese, I really appreciate the fact Palki and her team covered for the international audience a comprehensive overview of Taiwan!
Just a very tiny thing to point out around 1:20,
during the Qing dynasty most of the Chinese migrants were actually Hokkien/Hoklo Chinese from the Southern Fujian province, while Hakka was relatively a smaller group.
Partial Taiwanese... What, you're missing your legs or something?
Some of Palki's reporting are flawed. There are some good reporting but there are also some terrible reporting. Btw, there are also some click-bait titles with their reporting.
There are also the indigenous peoples of Taiwan who were never 'Chinese'.
@@Emanon... Missing eyes.
@@Waverlyduli These Taiwanese or rather indigenous Formosans, they're the progenitors of Maori of New Zealand and all Polynesians (i.e. Hawaiians). They are NOT of Han descent.
Thank you VisualPolitik EN for your kind words on this time of great sorrow
I wonder if it would help Taiwan if they equip their chip plants with a kind of "dead man switch." It wouldn't stop China from continuing to threaten them but it would ensure if it looks like China is winning the invasion they can spoil the value of their victory. If they publicized the existence of the switch it may be enough to prevent China from actually attacking? Maybe wishful thinking but it also may encourage other nations to defend them since it won't be "guess we have to go China to for advanced chips", but one where the chips are not available.
Unnecessary. China can't operate the plants without the Taiwanese operators.
The plants are basically right where the landing battles would need to be.
Although factories without trustworthy workers are useless.
and the machines are quite delicate, wouldn't take much to render them inoperable, with the actual components being made in the west. We haven't let China make everything.
TSMC would probably ship the machinery and workers to Japan and just have it done there
Most effective kill switch is an uncomprehending CCP, plus key aspects of the process always having been offshore.
The whole scenario is on the books and itemised for with existing capabilities for three teathers simultaneously, i.e., not just there.
Also, the fairly recent formation of AUKUS, the Australia - United Kingdom - United States Partnership took place in a timely manner to deal with this threat and to ensure the intergrity of international maritime routes. This may help explain the sudden cease of operations in Afghanistan and the subsequent announcement of the formation of AKUS.
13.40 min Observation: What makes anyone think that china would not want to flatten the island before taking over it as russia is currently doing...
china may pursue a flash massive attack as it has the numbers advantage.
The chinese always considered russia's communism to be of the soft type.
They would determined.
Tyrants never want to give up power, yet they always lose it at some point; often with their own violent demise.
Xi will make everyone suffer for laughing at him for looking like Winnie the Pooh.
That’s an insult to Winnie the Pooh
I don't wanna sow any discontent among the producers but I highly prefer Josh as a speaker tho, keep it up guys!
Xi Jinping's obsession with Taiwan boils down to the first reason you mentioned, him wanting to stay in power. All the other issues were there for a very long time, thus the current shift in China's attitude towards Taiwan can't be attributed to them. At most they can be indirectly attributed as a consequence of western actions like the formation of AUKUS and similar agreements but these agreements don't directly deal with Taiwan but with South East Asia as a whole and the South China Sea more specifically.
AUKUS would not exist without an aggressive expansionest China.
@@finkum09 Of course, but we're talking about the recent change in China's Taiwan policy. They were always somewhat aggressive towards Taiwan, which among other things led to the creation of AUKUS and other pacts in South East Asia. However the latest change in Xi's policy can, as I said indirectly, be attributed to said pacts but much more significantly to China's brewing internal issues and of course the nearing of his term and him wanting to remain in office.
I thought a naval blockage was considered an act of war? According to the Paris, Declaration Respecting Maritime Law and Articles 1-22 of the 1909 London Declaration Concerning the Laws of Naval War. It would be an act of war.
It would not be an act of war because Taiwan is not legally a nation as agreed by the UN, US and 180 other nations; Taiwan is legally a part of China. It is the US and its minions dealing in bad faith with China.
@@thomaskim3128 That's not how it works. You don't have to be a part of the UN for UN laws to apply to you. For example, Taiwan still always follows many of the UN laws because they still apply to them even if they aren't given fair representation. And the US and its minions? It's China who is the one that's causing the issue and not allowing Taiwan to change its constitution. China has never ruled over Taiwan and that is a historical fact that can be proven. And the US like many other nations never said they recognized China's claims over Taiwan but instead acknowledged those claims meaning TAKE THEM INTO CONSIDERATION. Even the UN Charter doesn't say anything about China having ownership over Taiwan. That's how bad China is lying when there is no legal or current treaty supporting its claims.
@@tyquonjackson7728 Except, the UN is NOT a world governing body. Its "laws" have zero force backing it beyond those willing to use armed conflict.
@@tyquonjackson7728 read your country's news when they establish diplomatic relationship with the PRC, it's literally CCP's prerequisite, that you recognize there is only one China and that is the PRC not the ROC, and PRC's legitimate government is the CCP, before establishing diplomatic relationship with the PRC.
@@manguanxu3612 their is a major difference between acknowledging and right out recognizing China claims. We also said we would leave it up to Taiwan to decide its future. And that Taiwan and China need to talk to each other to settle their differences. The US has its policy vague for reason to keep China guessing on what we would do if they do decide to invade. We all know China doesn't keep its word on anything. And another thing our policy isn't a law but can easily be void by congress our the president.
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@@nyxknight7555 Yep
As far as Xi is concerned the world leading semi conductor industry in Taiwan is his. If He gets to own that it will make China even more powerful by a lot. The US know that, and that is why they want to help Taiwan.
Read history. Watch Ukraine, little bot. Democracies don't lose. Unelected incompetent autocrats do.
what's US's obsession with Hawaii? What's UK's obsession with Scotland? What's your obsession with your phone?
China is not just "obsessed with Taiwan", it is an injustice to the Chinese people that the agreement signed was not followed through. Not only that, this will put an end to a terror on the borders of China which is in many ways, unacceptable. If China were to decimate Taiwan's 25 air strips, not only would Taiwan be grounded, where are 20 million Chinese in Taiwan going to run to? An economic blockade seems like not such a bad idea when faced with bombardment of full out war.
20 million Chinese on Taiwan? Last I heard, the demographics was 23 million Taiwanese with a few thousand Chinese expats. 🙄
So the People of Taiwan should thank Xi for imposing an economic blockade instead bombing the island?
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China isn't supposed to use force or coercion to seek unification, democracies have a clearer path to legitimacy, some would argue Taiwan has more of a claim over the mainland than the opposite. In reality China is an imperial fabrication, it should probably be smaller than it already is. Does China want to trash its own reputation by bullying Taiwan, such reputations are likely to have more consequential significance going forth...
Taiwan keeps a substantial part of its air forces and its highly trained pilots OUTSIDE of its borders...pilots and planes that would directly attack the Chinese mainland in retaliation for any assault....wanna bet they Don't have nuclear weapons for those planes?
@@EskayDuro I believe that Taiwan possessed nukes back when U.S. forces still had military bases on the island before UN switched recognition to CCP in 1979. It was an open secret at the time that they were stashed in Tainan Air Base. Taiwan also secretly had its own indigenous Nuclear weapons program, but the UN caught on and put a stop to it.
We the Taiwanese do not think we need to “declare independence” because ROC in Taiwan has always been separate and independent from the PRC.
For us, the Status Quo = de facto Taiwan Independence.
The international community just need to recognize this fact.
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I'm sorry but what? Last time I checked Taiwan hasn't yet officially changed its policy of the ROC being the legitimate ruler of China, as in all of China, as in Chiang Kai Shek's successor government. Taiwanese independence means abolishing this claim for good and officially removing Taiwan from Chinese territory. Taiwan isn't willing to go that far, as of yet, and China of course refuses to even hear talks about this as in their mind Taiwan is and always will be core Chinese territory and the only way to change that is to force China to renounce their claims to Taiwan after a humiliating peace treaty or a similar event.
@@Owlr4ider As a part of US's acknowledging the "One China Policy", China agrees to not change the Status Quo across the Taiwan Straight. Under "Taiwan Relations Act", Taiwan also agrees not change the Status Quo, which means we do not update the ROC constitution nor attempt to change our occupied territory of Taiwan, Kinmen, Penghu & Matsu.
If China breaks the status quo , US can withdraw acknowledgement of the "One China Policy". If China fires the first shot & attack Kinmen and Matsu, Taiwan will be free to updated its constitution, change its official name to "Taiwan" and establish formal alliances with democratic allies under the new name.
@@robwon8378 Lots of ifs there. If China changed status quo, which admittedly is what this video is suggesting. However even if that happens it doesn't guarantee the US withdraws from said acknowledgement, they simply *can* do it if they choose to do so, but aren't forced into it. Similarly while Taiwan will be free to update its constitution, it will run into the same issues that created this status quo in the first place. Being able to do something and actually doing it are 2 very different things...
@@Owlr4ider In the as-is current state, PRC & ROC in Taiwan have always been separate and independent from each other. Taiwan has never been ruled by, and is independent from Communist China.
The nations surrounding China need to take a page from the Europeans and form there own version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to stand against Chinese aggression just as Europe banded together to stand up to Russia. Strength in numbers.
09:20 Actually, a blockade is strictly a war action, recognized in international law. It's one of the most clear points that everyone agrees on. The things you said right after are probably true, but still, a blockade is a very real act of war that could give a pretext to other military action in response.
@Visualpolitik I do not think China will immediately attack Taiwan as because we have seen Chinese are lot less militarily inclined than Russians historically. Chinese economy is in one of the lowest phase in recent times, so any full blown war at this time will affect Chinese dream to be number one economy massively in the near future. China will only threaten Taiwan militarily or economically which they already do with other neighbors. But China will maintain the record that their last official fight has been the 1979 Vietnam War.
My observation too, China after thousands of years has learned to accomplish strategies at a slower pace than openly declaring war.
There is no chance of the PRC attacking this year, they are simply too weak to take Taiwan this year. But I do predict that in 8 years time around 2030 that they will launch they full invasion. If they launch it around 2025 then I do see a complete fiasco for the PLA
@@taiwanisacountry I too think not this year. Planning and strategy will come first. China is smart and recognize open aggressive warfare is unacceptably wasteful. Not to say they won’t, but ordinances need to be strategically placed. Current affairs are just run-up exercises to see what will work.
@@thomassecurename3152 I completely disagree, it seems like it is a show of power for domestic propaganda, shooting fish in Taiwanese waters is not a military exercise but a waste of energy and money. Hell they could not even shoot properly and hit Japanese waters, almost sparking an international crisis, because they can't even aim properly.
@@taiwanisacountry I accept your assessment. Show of power can be construed as planning ‘what works, improvements, staging, and intel’. I appreciate your thoughts though. For all that is holy I wish for peace and prosperity for independence of Taiwan and the people.
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12:01 picture of a motorola 6845 display chip on a very 1980s computer board. A bit of an anacronism.
@VisualPolitik EN - At 6:00 it don't think it's Indian Ocean. Either it should be the Phillipine sea or Pacific Ocean. Kindly review.
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Xi Jinping should resign. Deng Xiaoping - who made failures - was one of the greatest leaders of China. He had very limited power.
Deng ran tanks over Democracy protesters. They're all evil low life. Go to bed, little bot.
Xiaoping had the humility to acknowledge weakness and when he or the CCP was wrong. Something both Mao and President Poohbear don't have.
@@Waverlyduli I am aware of this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
I don't like what happened in 1989. At this time China was very poor. That's why I wrote that he made failures. See Singapore (even now). Democracy is still limited. The same for Ruanda under Paul Kagame.
Look at the good things Deng has done for the China. At this time China should have started slowly with more democracy.
fun fact! Taiwan's war games of simulated invasions only last 8-10 hours because thats the estimated time it would take for the US navy to arrive
what if the US dont arrive?
@@chadgaming8071 then it sure would suck to be Taiwan I guess
Didn't Caligula 'punish' the Germans by having legionaries throw spears into the Rhine? How is this different?
Not just Caligula. It was fairly common to give mother nature a whipping when the dictator was angry
@@merlingeikie Yeah, didn't Nero send the Legions down to the beach to collect seashells as "tribute" from Neptune after he swished his sword in the Mediterranean?
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China wants Taiwan under its influence so it can ''unite into one China''. The CCP's plan isn't nesscrary to invade Taiwan, but options are leaving the table. As Taiwan is moving closer toward the West. An invasion would be a more favorable move to unite Taiwan with mainland China. Although it's not the first option for Xi
When he betrayed Hong Kong he made any other option impossible. Xi has proven there is no dealing with the CCP. They will break the word the second it benefits them to do so.
Xi hasn't had the competence to unite China much less manage its economy. Better not to cast outlandish parentage gambits at nearby nations.
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A blockade IS a declaration of war
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It's very weird to think that China would go to a full-blown war against Taiwan, even though if comparing the Chinese military to that of Russia, then China is far superior.
Thing is, China is an expansionist state, but it is not in the typical behaviour we see from Russia. This is because China is far more cautious, far more calculous and far more deep in depth of their thought. China is historically more competent than Russia and unlike the Russians, the Chinese are industrial people. And unlike Putin, Xi is smarter and he won't make reckless military move, as he emphasises economic growth during the current radical zero-COVID policy. During the disastrous invasion of Ukraine, China is trying to exploit the hole of Russia's increasingly weakened economy for its own, while keeping Russia weak enough to not resist China's demand.
Considering the Taiwanese are mainly of mainlander ancestry, it is still best for Beijing to prefer a peaceful solution with Taiwan. A war, for the Chinese, is undesirable at best. The Chinese are unlikely to go to war like the Russians.
@Cloud9 that past sins by the CCP does not hide the fact the Chinese regime is still fairly competent. It will make us to be careful, a bit.
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@@kealeradecal6091 So what? one incident don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
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@@kealeradecal6091 yeah that was like 32 years ago, you cant point to same thing forever
China and Taiwan may have some familiarities with Russia and Ukraine, but there are differences.
1. Taiwan is an island, which means China, now possesses the largest navy in the world, can blockade, though the blockade may not last long enough. Ukraine is a land-connected nation, making supplying Ukraine easier than Taiwan.
2. Economics. China and Taiwan share similar ethics of economic interests. China is far stronger than Russia, far more diversified and far more competitive than Russia. Even Taiwan is in the same position to compare with Russia, leave alone Ukraine. Economic connection makes it impossible for China to think about war, for China won't be reckless like Russia.
3. Russian military and its industry are plagued by corruption and mismanagement as seen on its invasion of Ukraine, something I can't see to be the same with China's ones. PLA is not perfect of course, but unlike Russia, China has a fairly better military structure and its officers are more professional than those of Russian ones.
While I don't know if Taiwan and China will maintain peace for how long, the Chinese leadership, unlike that of Russian one, is not that foolish. Xi Jinping is aware of the cost of an invasion and he will not do so until he realises the time is coming.
Well, the problem is in order to conquer land you have to take it, and there are very few places in Taiwan that are good beachheads. In the other places, it's mountains, and the defender has an advantage in mountainous areas.
Russia actually has combat experience though, and if they're performing this poorly (especially in logistics under fire) the PLA's failures would be even more dramatic. Remember the last time the Mainlanders tried a mass deployment, they got routed by unprepared reservists in Vietnam.
Missiles can destroy a small country like Taiwan, and that would be the end of it.
@@doujinflip In Russia, Corruption goes all they way to the military, same as communist China,
@@jamesrey3221 Stealthy tricks do worse and more rapidly on the China side.
I wonder how much those drills costs them. They are hurting, too.
Ummmmm... a blockade is an act of War. Even JFK's lie about the blockade of Cuba being an embargo was a lie. It was just one accepted to avoid WW3.
Another China China China video. Imma skip this video.
Truth, this guy seems to be overly-obsessed with China and not in a good way lmao
It’s incorrect that a blockade is a ‘grey zone’ tactic.
Blockades are *generally* considered an act of war, and have been used as a Casus belli for war many times- eg. The Six-Day War.
This is because blockades end up destroying neutral cargo shipping to be effective. Like US shipping.
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What does the queen have to do ANYTHING with this video... Just put out an independent 5 second video in memory of the queen. Pointlessly lumping that message into this is completely unnecessary.
I would assume China would wait 5 or so years let the US fall a little more and finish the new pipelines from Russia that would make any US NAVY blockade impotent
How would cutting off 95% of their trade be an impotent move? Sure, they can buy gas from Russia, then what? NOTHING will go in or out by sea, and we'll seize all Chinese hailed vessels everywhere the US navy is, which is everywhere in the world. China would utterly collapse within months, due to blockade, sanctions and embargo, but you believe whatever you want...😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
when you'r economy is built on exports and all if your infrastructure is built to get those goods to the ports to be shipped via cargo ships, a naval blockade would be devastating even if they could get oil from Russia and even then Russia does not have the ability to fuel all of China or even a few provinces
The PRC’s concern is whether Taiwan will be a tougher target in 5 years than it is today.
@@coreytaylor5386 wouldn't really matter the Chinese eternal economy could easily continue under a a blockade if Russia is able to provide energy meanwhile the US would collapse in a few months
@@bryanpayton1168 you guys don't seem very wise China not selling massive amounts of cheap goods to the west would hurt China but it would send the west into full depression
As a libertarian I do like the porcupine analogy. I've lived in Taiwan and still have friends and in-laws there. It is a peaceful country but it definitely needs to work on its defensive technology. If Taiwan can become the world's leading microchip producer, there is no reason they can't develop the best weapons systems in the world, also.
There are many reasons Taiwan can’t develop the best weapon systems.
Not only does the PRC go crazy. Some MP from Malaysian Chinese political parties also go crazy. I wonder why.
China laughs at 5-year plans. They go 50-years out. You talk about the present the plan the future. If you don’t know now the Chinese planners are extremely patient and will move at their opportune time line.
Totally. They were looking forward to their own collapse when they set the 1 child policy
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I can foresee another Great Leap Forward event or One Child Policy that will ruin China's future again. Do you even study history?
@@kennethli8 I did not say planning wisely. “implemented between 1980”. What do you know? It’s 50 years. Time to reevaluate. Which part of history you ask? The plan over 2,000 years ago to unify all province’s?
Agreed. China plans for 100 years. That is what Confucius, Author of "The Analects" pointed out in his famous quote.
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6:08 Indian Ocean?
the US have already started building TSMC fabs in the US and Intel is making fab in Arizona of 52 billion dollars to retake lead in semiconductors
Which is long overdue, but Taiwan still deserves support if they are willing to fight for their sovereign rights.
@@assertivekarma1909 Taiwan isn’t sovereign maybe democratic not sovereign .
More investment should be put into this industry to prevent reliance on Taiwan
6:05 I had to stop when he shows India Ocean east of Japanese calimed islands. If you don't know geography how come he know geo-politics?
Taiwan can allow the U.S to build a naval and air base on the island, I wouldn't mind being stationed on Taiwan
Insert someone in the comments saying they live in Taiwan and the don't think a war will happen even though it's not about what they think but if China thinks they should invade.
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The day that PRC troops land on Taiwan's territory is when Taiwan's chips go off-line and stay that way......
Taiwan needs only one thing as a deterriant. Nuclear weapons. It works for north korea. Why not taiwan? Taiwan engineers are not dumb. If the north koreans can figure it out, i'm sure taiwan have the technological know-how to build it too. You don't need a lot. Around 30 of them will surely incur the "excessive cost" Beijing are so fearful of.
You are correct but as soon as it comes out that Taiwan is developing them or is getting them from another country, China will have to attack immediately. There is no way they can have another nuclear powered nation on their border. Especially one they keep saying they are going to take back. My guess is that Taiwan would rather play the waiting game then prompt an immediate war.
Taiwan has been a threshold nuclear power for decades now, they could probably get a warhead together in a year. In fact America has had to stop the ROC from proceeding further to not antagonize the Communist Bloc. Granted this was before Tiananmen when the Mainland seemed to be heading the Western way, much like how Taiwan was likewise about to end the KMT dictatorship and democratize.
You state that China has the most warships which is true. But you fail to recognize that US ships are far more capable. For example, US ships have 6000 missile launchers combined while Chinese warships have 1000. Also USA has 10 carriers to China's 3, two of which are crappy jump jet carriers. And these are just two of many examples.
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A chip blockade won't work, they are small enough to be flown out of Taiwan westward to Japan. You can load entire shipments onto a B2 stealth bomber or spy plane.
Uhh, Japan is not to the west of Taiwan.
Can't we just all chill together?
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Traditional 2 term limit? You mean that Hu Jintao had a 2 term limit. Jiang Zemin made it up after he stepped down.
Jiang Zemin sat for 2 and a half "term" Deng Xiaoping was not even chairman but he ruled China as if he were, and Mao Zedong was Mao Zedong.
After Evergrande collapsed and Xi Jinping saying seems have a great chance for a coincidence, Xi has been saying that since 2015 and that was some really good years for the Chinese economy. The usage of Pelosis visit to Taiwan is 100% a distraction, no doubt about that, but your example seems pretty farfetched.
You forgot that the two term limit was written in the Chinese constitution (or some sort of law), until it was removed a couple of years ago. So the two term limit is not just imagined.
@@forbeginnersandbeyond6089 i never said it was pure imagination, it was written into the constitution by Jiang Zemin to limit the power of the people who came after him. It was used a single time, on Hu Jintao, that does not make it a tradition. What is a tradition is bending the rules to fit once "vision" of how things are ought to be.
Making an invasion a headache is a proven strategies, porcupine works
But what about the blockades?
Taiwan also represents an alternate (and better) history of China and the Chinese people
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All it needs is anti ship missiles, electronic warfare and air defence.
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FORMOSA is definitely apart of Japanese land mass, because here in New Zealand this was internationally recognized as the under sea land connection, the CCP must have found out this fact and is getting in first, Taiwan (Formosa )is its own independent nation.