How China's Threat of Invasion Is Changing Taiwan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, but the government in Taipei rejects that. As Beijing seeks unification, how is the threat of invasion changing the island democracy?
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Man it's gonna be awkward when Mongolia has to invade half the world to reunify their territory.
Hope they improved their tech tree a lot, horses ain’t gonna cut it this time around :D
@@JezzyHsu Horses?
You mean the transportation technology that does neither require fossil fuel nor child labor for the extraction of lithium?
Man, horses are the mode of transportation of the future!
😂🇺🇸😂 Taiwan is part of China. I can't wait to see China in Cuba, Mexico, South America to counter decades of bullying and looting by the USA.
@@martinfiedler4317bro the future transportation will be dominated by electricity cars with solar panels
That was different, because the half of the world didn't claimed Mongolia as their territories; the Republic of China on the island Taiwan claims the whole China as his territory.
History is only repeating itself, people never learn from their mistakes.
Taiwan should learn from Ukrainian
Someone needs to put America in its place just like Vietnam did😂
@@PROLIFIC_TRAVELS Vietnamese excelled in guerilla and jungle warfare which does not apply to the possible war across the Taiwan Strait. For example, you can not build a "Ho Chi Minh Trail" over the Taiwan Strait.
@@profriday tons of Asian countries have jungles, so yes it relavant. Alot of countries may have modern equipment, but they still practice gurella warfare.
@@PROLIFIC_TRAVELS just like how Vietnam put China in its place 😂
The history mirrors what the world is today,Lessons learnt from WW2 is easily being forgotten over generations.
Taiwan is just a gathering place for the losers of China's civil war. After the Nationalist Party's defeat in 1949, they brought a large number of people to Taiwan and continued to resist China under the protection of the United States. Taiwan is just a pawn for the United States to confront China.
The generation(s) that lived during ww2 and the direct aftermath are slowly dying out; in China, Japan, Russia, Europe, USA...The generations who haven't lived during that time are either very soft and can't imagine taking part in any conflict; they'd rather give up instead of defending what is theirs (especially found in western Europe) or people who are sabre rattling and want to find glory in blood again as people did before WW1
Taiwan's national service is so short. They are counting on US to save them
Pathetic 😂Someone needs to put America in its place just like Vietnam did😂
There are defence treaty between ROC and US signed 1954
@@nanowally23dont you know US always break treaty.
@@America_bombsTSMC yes US break it diplomatic relationship with Taiwan 1978 for recognizing PRC, US and china during those time agreed for economic ties, and US help china accession in the WTO. But the treaty of defence are not set aside between US and china. Even US broke it's diplomatic ties with Taiwan, they have robust unoffiacial relationship.
@@America_bombsTSMC di you know Russia and china also broke treaty? Google can attest to that. Are you in china? Well as far as I know google was block in china.
It’s called invasion not reunification
@@clarkl7027 Taiwan is not part of People’s Republic of China. And If PPC wants to take the land from republic of china aka Taiwan, that’s invasion instead of reunification
the next handful of years is make or break for the world. get ready y'all
World knows when america desperately cries for democracy and freedoom of that country or region what will happen to that region take for example afaganostan,iraq,Libiay😂😂😂Even usa has never said taiwan is a country but the amount pf poeple supporting it really is a shock😂😂Bro they are like in civil war that never ended ..Sayinh china is gonna invade taiwan is like asuimg usa will overthrow and overkill hawaians kings and their ruler to setup their Own form of government wheather people want it or not
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@@fwble_3888 😭For yll 3years Old To understand
@@GTFO_0 bro u said "afaganostan" "libiay" actual cro magnun brain
@@fwble_3888 i said s-h-=ut-Y_0^our _L0s$y @$$ off
Don't underestimate Taiwan and its people. Ukraine was far from ready for an invasion yet they still stand. Ukrainians weren't even trained yet they are still fighting. Not to knock on Ukraine, but Taiwan is in a much better situation than Ukraine.
NATO fighting for Ukraine but yet they don't won yet they are not even fighting with Wagner group from Russian.
Ukraine is grateful to the United States for sending us to the battlefield. We in Ukraine are now very happy
Taiwanese underestimates the war, like ukrainian
wdym Ukraine was not prepared for war? they had 2nd largest army in Europe of over 1.2 million (after Russia). that's a lot for a country with just over 40 million people
@@America_bombsTSMCI doubt that. Taiwan is ready for Chinese invasion in 2027.
Whoever controls chip manufacturing, controls the next decade
Century.
No one country controls chip manufacturing. It's a global supply chain. Deal with it.
@@4KSnSLifestyle supply chain and manufacturing are both different.
Taiwan's TSMC produces around 90% of world's advanced chips and almost get 50% of contacts for manufacturing chips
@@krishnaSagar69 Nope supply chain and manufacturing are part of the whole ecosystem.
@@krishnaSagar69 TSMC doesn't make older chips. Those are made in China.
Ok every since Wagner I think it’s possible to move an army
Taiwanese must be living in so much anxiety due to these threats
No they're not. They're taking Chinese threat in stride according to news reports.
They don't. They do not believe an invation is actually possible.
The nickname of the spokesperson is Everest.🤣
China should just move their troops inside Taiwan with white flags .
What respect the world has for Taiwan. A small country, constantly bullied by its neighbour. And yet it is mature, liberal and generous in its international affairs.
捏一个桔
Sorry, Taiwan is not a country and we don't care at all. We just want it to be like Ukraine, with blood flowing down the river
Many of the Taiwanese saying the US and allies are making them like Ukraine
@@Liboch You are very smart. After the war, there will be a large number of poor people fleeing. We can let them work at a very low price, and women can also be used, you know
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Blame Mao's one child policy and the preference for sons over daughters. 😂
Still hard for you guys to admit it's your government chose PRC to represent China, you made your own enemy because the economy benefit....
Nah cause of reality PRC was the only one that had control of what is historically considered China, you can’t claim to still be china and have no control over actual China
@@Anedoje Totally nonsense, if ur theory is correct, eastern Ukraine and Crimea should belong to Russia, West Bank should belong to Israel....
PRC is control by CCP, not by Chinese people, and that's a fact since 1949....
Even usa has never said taiwan is a country but the amount pf poeple supporting it really is a shock😂😂Bro they are like in civil war that never ended ..Sayinh china is gonna invade taiwan is like asuimg usa will overthrow and overkill hawaians kings and their ruler to setup their Own form of government wheather people want it or not
To be honestly, back then neither were a great choice. Taiwan wasn't democratic till afterwards, both the CCP and KMT were both authoritarians and both brutal dictatorships.
The only difference is the old KMT died out in Taiwan, while the CCP barely changed. Also choosing the ROC didn't mean China today would become peaceful and democratic. Like I said, Taiwan developed on it's own based on it's own circumstances. Hindsight is 20/20, but no one can predict the future from the past.
@@sanzuriver2959 Nonsense, since 1951, ROC started local elections, the first mayor of Taipei city and Taichung city are not party members of KMT...
If you can read Chinese, there are so many books about modern history of China, it will make you learn more knowledge about the facts....
Literally Proof! That the guy even said China always wanted Taiwan to be united but didnt have the power to back then. But now they are capable. It has nothing to do with whos in office. Trump, Biden, etc., the chinese will try try to take Taiwan whenever their ready. I like how Trump hanldes things, when saying hes talking to Putin or Xi Xinping, and trump told them not to invade. But they still would do it no matter who is in office. Its just depends on when they want to do it or when they think is there best chance!
There has been no evidence provided, whatsoever, that China wants to invade on the dates given. Lyle J. Goldstein, former professor at the U.S. Naval College and Chinese military expert, has explained endlessly that China has been ready to invade Taiwan for years. They don't because they don't want to. They actually tell the truth when they say that they want a peaceful reunification. All the U.S. is doing is attempting to provoke a war by forcing China to invade by arming the island and seeking to get international recognition of their independence from China.
Both U.S. Presidents Bush and Biden have said: "We will defend Taiwan" should China invade in 2027. Japan too has threatened military intervention against China with Japan's largest military build-up in over 75 years!
1:07 wow what a farce
I'm an American currently living in Mainland China. I had the pleasure of visiting Taiwan a few years ago. I liked it immensely more than Mainland China. It was very similar, but with none of the drawbacks. The people are friendlier, the food is better, the streets are cleaner. As a result of my visit, I now love Taiwan and would be devastated if the CCP ends up launching their war to destroy Taiwan.
One thing i learn from Israel in the USSR era is that you can never win a war with a super power, we can see that also in Russian, ucrine.
"The people are frendlier... Streets are cleaner... blah.. blah.."
Compared to US of course
Then why do you still stay in the mainland China？
@@heyan3526 He is a liar!
No Taiwan streets not cleaner than mainland China, you are a liar.
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The Taiwanese been have on high alert since the 1950s. So much so, people got used to it.
1950 there is no Taiwanese,they were all called Chinese,and the regime was called Taiwan province,Republic of China.
@@xffan6426 and for the 50 years before the end of WW2, before its self-rule, Taiwan was part of Japan. The last time Taiwan was a province of China was more than 120 years ago, when China lost it in war.
@bakerstreet101 and more than 180 countries in the UN and surroundings countries in Asia recognise Taiwan as part of China which by international law puts Taiwan as being part of China.
@@bakerstreet101 Taiwan has been a province of China after Japan returned it to China. The disagreement is over whether the PRC or the ROC is the legitimate ruler of China. For the vast majority of post WWII, Taiwan's ROC government did not allow speech that suggested Taiwan was separate from China.
@@bakerstreet101kidding, Taiwan was a province of China 26 years ago.
India only had soft power but it doesn’t work unless you have hard power .. now India’s slowly increasing its hard power. China has all the hard power but doesn’t care about soft power .. YOU NEED BOTH AND US, RUSSIA, FRANCE etc ARE THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT..
The people's needs first
China has a lot of soft power. Belt and road, funding infrastructure in developed and less developed countries, trade deals. China has more soft and hard power than India by far.
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@@mr.takethingstooseriously you don't have soft powers, if you mean soft power as a "threatening neighbors with abusive power" maybe it is.
most of east asians doesn't agree with you and i'd rather agree with indians.
In 1970 china was known as patient of Asia status... today china is economic super power only due to USA and west.
In our language ,the road,path are different, it is no bloody point to discuss ,consult with you.
I feel everyone wants peace and highly doubt any disturbances
All the countries seem to be trying to achieve world peace No need to worry too much Everything shall be fine on mother earth
You are incorrect
America will create conflict around the world
This is the only way they can maintain their Empire
Because it is impossible for America To reform Their country anymore
China's invasion could very well be doomed just by the geography of Taiwan itself; it's a mountainous island. Only two places are considered viable for landings and conditions are only right for a few months out of the year. They'd see the massing forces well before the invasion begins. Plus the potential for guerilla war because of the mountains. China wants Taiwan primarily for its superconductor plants, otherwise it would be much better to maintain the status quo, and destruction of those plants in a guerilla war would ruin all of China's plans of dominating the superconductor market.
Even worse for China, they have no military experience. In their last war against Vietnam, they lost terribly. Now they wish to plan out an amphibious assault that will make D-Day look like a birthday party in comparison. Unless WW3 starts, they aint doing nothing. Taiwan is fine, and will remain fine for the next several decades.
This is right, but guerilla war is the least of their worries. Making onto the island is gonna be their biggest problem. The Chinese would be outnumbered
@@zaceur they've been preparing since the 50s
Forced exile tend to do that to a nation
@@zaceur Don't discount the Taiwanese skill of digital war games.
Are you seriously? as a Chinese i shall remind you how US lost Korea war desperately in peninsula island? i won't mind if we give US force a new lesson again😂😂😂
Only uneducated people think that it will be an invasion instead of a naval blockade. Regarding experience, the US doesn't have recent experience either, 300 times weaker Muslim desert forces they lost against wasn't exactly what you call 'experience'.
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World knows when america desperately cries for democracy and freedoom of that country or region what will happen to that region take for example afaganostan,iraq,Libiay😂😂😂Even usa has never said taiwan is a country but the amount pf poeple supporting it really is a shock😂😂Bro they are like in civil war that never ended ..Sayinh china is gonna invade taiwan is like asuimg usa will overthrow and overkill hawaians kings and their ruler to setup their Own form of government wheather people want it or not
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every time i see Xi i think winnie the poo bear
Xi is incompetent in Foreign affairs.
asymmetric = trade human life for firepower. do Taiwanese really want that
Taiwan will do whatever the US tells it to do. Let's be honest. They have no strategic autonomy.
台灣的雲峰飛彈可以打到北京
許多人都知道中國用飛彈對準台灣，但可能不知道我們的雲峰飛彈也有攻擊北京的能力。退役少將、前國防大學政戰學院院長余宗基表示，中國遲遲沒有對台封鎖或動武或封鎖，部分原因是忌憚台灣的反制能力
自從台灣在2019年禁止賣中國晶片，中國的火箭發成功率就越來越低了
雖然聽說中國現在狂造飛彈，但實際上很可能是中國網軍故意製造的假訊息。
就算中國真的製造了一堆看起來像飛彈的鐵塊，實際上內容物就像俄羅斯坦克的塑膠外殼一樣，中看不中用
Yes.
'The Republic of China (Taiwan) passport is the passport issued to nationals of the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan. ' - Wikipedia
Shut up freak
ok?
Hong Kong and Macau also have different passports.
@@hyxnbwd666 ha ha it prints PROC right on top front page
@@recycle8894 I am just stating the facts.
Man. China is just maiing the world only have 1 chinese country . Might take Singapore soon
We are not America
We do not go around the world to attack small country
3:32 Stop using the U.S. defense budget compared to a budget that China does not include all of its military in. This measurement does not show the reality of the situation, numbers of weaponry is what shows the reality of the situation. China does not include figures in its budget that the U.S. does include in its budget like soldier welfare, housing, medical, MRE's, etc. China does not include that into their budgets. China has a logistical advantage, and a weaponry and man power advantage over the U.S.. Stop making it seem like the U.S. has the advantage.
Last time China had a really major war was with Vietnam in 1979, they lost terribly. No other major conflicts since then. They have virtually no modern experience in fighting wars, and they want to assemble an invasion fleet to a mountainous island that will make D-Day a birthday party by comparison, and that island has been preparing for such an invasion since the 50s with only two viable landing sites that are only viable a few months a year.
"Stop making it seem like the US has the advantage."
China's weaponry consists of cheap copycats of US armoury. And a man power advantage doesn't mean anything in the modern day.
We will see how the Chinese will suffer because of this aggressive stand… Most of the world stand with Taiwan….
@@gorbash07 the sad part is that most of the world is so reliant on China for trade and goods, that most of the world does not stand with Taiwan
China has zero experience fighting a war. The US has been fighting wars nonstop for 8 decades! Do you seriously think a 3rd world newcomer has a chance in a all out war against a battle hardened gun happy country like the USA?
Democracies and Republics of the world: STAND STRONG WITH TAIWAN!!!!
I totally agree! ~ !!❤🤍💙!!
Are you sure? then TW should have got the diplomatic recognition from at least 60% of those ‘Democracies and Republics'?
People in Taiwan are much smarter than you, they won't sacrifice their lives for Democracies and Republics.
@@DavethresholdEven usa has never said taiwan is a country but the amount pf poeple supporting it really is a shock😂😂Bro they are like in civil war that never ended ..Sayinh china is gonna invade taiwan is like asuimg usa will overthrow and overkill hawaians kings and their ruler to setup their Own form of government wheather people want it or not
@@DavethresholdWorld knows when america desperately cries for democracy and freedoom of that country or region what will happen to that region take for example afaganostan,iraq,Libiay😂😂😂Even usa has never said taiwan is a country but the amount pf poeple supporting it really is a shock😂😂Bro they are like in civil war that never ended ..Sayinh china is gonna invade taiwan is like asuimg usa will overthrow and overkill hawaians kings and their ruler to setup their Own form of government wheather people want it or not
Peace ..Progress and Prosperity with Internal democratic self Rule for Taiwan Province as part of China s territorial integrity is the best option than Death,Destruction and Devastation as cannon fodder for someone else geopolitical advantage?......
It is a tradition of Western countries to disintegrate the territory of other countries, and when pirate civilizations do not have the strength to plunder other countries, they will fabricate lies and organize color revolutions. Taiwan is the territory left by the common ancestors of the Chinese people, who wants to split the territory must pay the price of blood!!! Westerners first figure out their own gender issues before discussing Taiwan, hypocrites will hide in the dark corner to make up lies
无论中国人说什么谎，请不要干涉台湾内政，台湾人不愿成为中国地缘政治的炮灰。
There is no timeline... maybe 2049....
No need to wage war against brothers and sisters in Taiwan province. Be patient for the prodigal to come home as US power wanes.
If that were a viable strategy, then it'll be many, many generations before Taiwan reunifies.
The so called Taiwan Independence Movement won't end well.
Independence from what? Taiwan is already independent since 1952.
@@thornados4969 never officially recognized by the US. and no official document that US will defend Taiwan, like they have with Japan. Taiwan should demand an official document from the US at least imo.
@@alustin It's already a US law called TRA which is about Taiwan defense as prerequisite of opening relation with China in 1979.
@@thornados4969 Prove it.
@@thornados4969 Won't matter as China can change the agreement anytime if necessary.
I don’t think China has to cojones to even try 😅
Well if Don't like it then move your land somewhere else 😂
There is no such thing as “unification”, only invasion of a sovereign independent nation! So stop using terms like reunification
the us has one china policy
The US pretends to observe this in order to placate the PRC.
Taiwan can learn from the experience of Ukraine. The West doesn't care about Taiwan, Taiwan can only be a stage where the US and it's allies may use for proxy war against China. I'm sure, whatever the outcome of reunification may be, is better than what Ukraine is experiencing today.
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As long as China is paying lip service to Taiwan, we know the west cares about Taiwan.
I'm sure you're sure. 🫶
Well, unlike Ukraine, Taiwan has THE biggest semiconductor fab in the world, producing over 60% of the world's semiconductors and over 90% of the most advanced ones so in a way the they HAVE to care unless they want to be sent back technologically to the 1990s.
@@lordssundee7047 China doesn't need advanced chips. If anything it's the West that would suffer the most. China can produce its own mature chips which are used in 80% of most electronics.
This is a rubbish biased "report"
You wouldn't call a civil war "invasion".
Taiwan is a colony of US so they call it a "INVASION”.
The constitution of ROC including the area ROC ( mainland) & ROC (taiwan)
Don’t you get it? The west wants to turn Taiwan into its colony. :)
Does writing into constitution make that a truth? Do you admit that constitution of ROC is a legally binding document?
@@user-jj8kg5ef2t of course
@@wil_wilqueen3552 So, you admit ROC is a legally existing country, with a legally binding constitution?
@@user-jj8kg5ef2t ROC & PRC are both called China . Both share common language , holiday and history . The museum in Taipei exhibits the ancient China civilisation.
Taiwan should develop or acquire low yield nuclear weapons in the thousands. This is necessary for its defence.
american dad:no
不可能，这会立即引发战争
what drives wars and suffering is fear and hatred.
China has desire for reunification but does not actively seek a military conflict to resolve the issue.
China would only advance if they see there is no hope and further escalation of military prep from US and Taiwan.
US wants to protect the island but dehumanizing your rival and over prep Taiwan for military conflict may simply lead to a conflict no one wants (how WWI started). we saw the tragedy that is Ukraine (Russia is wrong to invade but it perceived risk and miscalculated and then thousands died).
With media like Bloomberg who have no desire to seek truth but fan the flames of war. We are likely to repeat the tragedy on a much larger scale. Then who's really to blame or does it really matter? when millions may have died by then.
"what drives wars and suffering is fear and hatred." It is always decided by authoritarian rulers from the greed of expanding territories. History repeats itself.
If there is a real war with China, it is really impossible to let any American prisoner go，The descendants of the colonists should all go to the cold land of Siberia to farm
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Hey Henry, i have a nice Chinese joke - Peaceful reunification with Taiwan :)
The Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have never signed a formal peace treaty. Both parties consider themselves to be the rightful rulers of all of China, including Taiwan.
After the Chinese Civil War, which took place from 1945 to 1949, the KMT, led by Chiang Kai-shek, retreated to Taiwan while the CCP, led by Mao Zedong, established the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland. Since then, both the KMT and the CCP have maintained their claims of legitimacy and sovereignty over all of China.
The KMT, as the ruling party in Taiwan, has historically held onto the idea of "One China" and considers itself the legitimate government of China. They have not formally renounced their claim to mainland China and continue to advocate for eventual reunification under their leadership.
Similarly, the CCP, as the ruling party in mainland China, also asserts its claim as the legitimate government of China, including Taiwan. The CCP considers Taiwan a part of its territory and has not ruled out the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
The lack of a peace treaty between the KMT and the CCP, combined with their competing claims of legitimacy, has contributed to the ongoing political tensions and complexities surrounding the issue of reunification between Taiwan and mainland China.
The vast majority of Taiwanese people left China over 400 years ago and have little in common with China. Most Taiwanese have never been to China, and vice-versa. Taiwan was Japanese for the 50 years before its last 70+ years of self-rule. 50 years of Japanese education in Taiwan and 70 years of communism in China make the differences far greater than the commonalities.
I agree with you on some points, but Taiwan and China has always had close relationships. The island was under China’s rule for many years, and during the time of Japanese occupation it was during world war II, which many other territories(such as southeast islands) were compromised as well. Also, the Chinese civil war led the former leader of China Jiang jieshi and many other Chinese people to move back to Taiwan. It is important to point out other facts before making judgement
Taiwan is 97% Han Chinese. Of the thousands of available dialects in China, it speaks standard Mandarin on its news channels. It uses a form of Chinese more traditional than the PRC. It studies Chinese history in its schools. It celebrates all the Chinese holidays. "Little in Common with China" - CIA agent
400 years ago? You know fuckall about history. They migrated recently after the civil war. They speak chinese, eat chinese, pray to chinese gods, celebrate chinese holidays, have chinese names. They are chinese. Stop lying to yourself
You guys transferred from Fujian Province to Taiwan Province. How could you say left China? Taiwan was under control by Chinese in Ming, Qing, and ROC. Taiwan is never an independent country in the past 400 years.
This is rubbish false information
Taiwan’s defence is a joke. 12 months conscription? To make a comparison, Singapore conscripts serve 22 months. In fact, if you compare the Singapore, Israeli and Taiwanese armed forces, the Taiwanese armed forces look positively anaemic by comparison. I suggest that if Taiwan wants to have a hope of deterring a Chinese invasion, it will have to go beyond Israeli and Singapore levels of military training equipment and conscription to become a modern day Sparta.
The invasion would be better deterred and stopped at the Taiwan Strait. Conscription forces can't do much in the air and naval services.
Sparta lost. Athens won.
Taiwan had 2 to 3 years of mandatory active duty depending on the branches of military services. After democracy, compulsory military services were reduced to the current period. The is also an option for civilian service as a substitute. The plan to volunteer only military service was scrapped when China's threat has not stopped.
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台湾人并不想当兵也不想打仗，当解放军打来的时候他们更愿意躲在家里。
How about asking for peaceful reunification? But the problem is: do the Taiwan people want to live ke mainland China, under mixed communist- capitalist system. ?
The draft re-unification document that the previous Taiwanese govt negotiated with China allows Taiwan not just to keep its democratic government, but to retain its armed forces. It would remove all travel barriers and trade barriers.
Taiwan has had 70 years to prepare and there are systems in place to keep PRC and Xi right where they are indefinitely. Winnie the Ping's not crossing that sea any time soon.🤣
Chinese has patient
They wait 50 years to get Hong Kong back although it can take Hong Kong back immediately after the communist United China
Will this force Taiwan into declaring independence?
China's policy has always been for Peaceful Reunification. This strategy is entrenched in the Declaration of the 20th People's Congress.
How peaceful when there are fighter jet sortie every day and ballistic missiles pointing at you?
@@PoYenTseng Those fighter jets are not for Taiwanese people. They are for the separatists. They only happen every time the American makes a provocation.
@@MetaView7 Reunfication is a lie. Taiwan was never unified by China. Besides no legal basis because Taiwan is never a part of China since 1895. RoC on the other hand has the rightful claim of China's territory because the state crimes committed by communist traitors against the RoC government in China have not yet settled. RoC has the right to come back and rule China again But PRC has no right to claim on Taiwan because it has no legal basis.
@@MetaView7 you apparently don’t comment based on facts. Sortie comes every day so don’t try to repeat what CCP said.
Peaceful Reunification has been in place since Deng took power in 1978. Hope it can last another 45 years, better yet make it 100 years.😄
It’s coming
Fun fact : Taiwan is an independent country.
建议你了解一下各国承认的一个中国政策。
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建議你了解一下，CCP 禁止人民使用TH-cam 政策
Indeed ， Taiwan is an independent country
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@@jennychuang808 自娱自乐没什么不好的。你开心就好。
@@jennychuang808 确实如此，所以民主的你难道不支持我使用VPN吗？
us has promised so many countries so many things...
Normally it would be over in 4 hrs... If not for Japan pH and Guam and partly India. The pH would most probably the first ones on the ground for Taiwan. 🤔. We'd bear most of the brunt, and grunts... 😬.wed bengaged in skirmish for months,if for some fortunate reason we don't get nuked first... 🙂Can't tell u about the motivations of India and Japan though, oh but they'll most probably be joining, but u have to ask one of their knowledgable citizens about that. See we Filipinos are not the decisive factor in this mess. We're just, u said it, grunts. 😳And most importantly a neutral Russia.... This war is messy, If Russia disrupts Guam and Japan. 😑. Nobody wants this happening...would u believe it really depends on the outcome in Ukraine. 🤔
Jens Stoltenberg has said China is watching this Ukraine war closely to determine its behavior toward Taiwan and that we need to make a great showing in Ukraine to deter China.
Peace yoooo
why is it the only people talking about invasions are Americans?
Becuase america would be footing the bill. Dont forget the US was the first to warn about ukraine too. And warned india about china when they fought
Maybe because you aren't listening to the people of Taiwan?
the Taiwanese are also talking about being invaded. or did you miss that?
Because the Chinese have already started invading and stealing land from all the countries around it. You can ask Bhutan, India, the Philippines, Nepal, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea and Tibet what they think about it.
@@WorldIsWierdUS is the one who started the war in Ukraine by staging a coup
What're y'all smoking over there 😂
Peaceful reunification of Taiwan
Taiwan has all right to feel whatever they feel, fact is fact , not the MSG Us version
the economic impact is exaggerated
Taiwan should declare independence and join NATO immediately. We urgently need the Taiwanese to fight against Putin's regime and CCP China to protect freedom and democracy.
The second Taiwan declares independence, China would missile bomb them til kingdom come. NATO? what are they going to do? Look at Ukraine.. where is their membership?
You speak for the neocons. But 90% of Taiwanese vote AGAINST the DPP party that invited Nancy to visit Taiwan. The election was nov 2022. The Taiwanese look at Ukraine and want nothing to do with Ukraine. Or be cannon fodder for the US.
台湾要独立很困难，必须放弃中华民国建立新的体质不能使用中国法律😅
台湾加入北约？请问北约打得过中国吗？
@@ccbeh9103Even usa has never said taiwan is a country but the amount pf poeple supporting it really is a shock😂😂Bro they are like in civil war that never ended ..Sayinh china is gonna invade taiwan is like asuimg usa will overthrow and overkill hawaians kings and their ruler to setup their Own form of government wheather people want it or not
The split between Taiwan and China is manufactured in the US. Before the pandemic, 1 million Taiwanese lived and worked on mainland China. Canada with ~2X the population of Taiwan only has 800,000 canadians working in the US. Every time you hear china will invade Taiwan, it's spoken by an American.
It's never been one. Taiwan is geographically at least 200 miles separated by strait of sea. Taiwan is always a self-governing territory since it's existence. Taiwan history is different from China's history. Legally, Taiwan is never a part of China since 1895. No false propaganda can hide the historical fact.
@@thornados4969 so why does Taiwanese travels with passport printed ' Republic of China' on the front ???!
@@recycle8894 What kind of question is that? RoC is the representative government of Taiwan. The same thing with PRC being the current government of China.
@@thornados4969 dude just answer the question - is 'ROC' part of China ?
@@thornados4969 How far is Alaska separated from the rest of the US or Hawaii?
1. Alaska is 500 miles separated from the rest of the USA.
2. Hawaii is 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the U.S. mainland in the Pacific Ocean. so what was your point again?
Let me just say those politician giving comments in this video will be thr first to flee the Island if China do invade.Hahahaha
Taiwan should empty it's Silo of Long range Missiles to strike 3 Gorge Dam the moment PLA Copied Jet Fighters enter Taiwan Airspace!
US talks about war. China talks about peace. We don't need much history study to see who is the warmonger.
Which country US invaded when you was born? Comment down bellow.
When I was born was the invasion of Granada.
What part of “we will reunify the homeland” is talks about peace?
@@sonofsamson who said that cant be done peacefully? Unlike US that only knows war...
@@TheMrleeyangThe only peaceful unification would be through Taiwanese voting itself back, and Beijing's actions especially with HK has effectively obliterated the attractiveness of that thought for the next two generations.
You can ask Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam and India, all of which China has invaded.
Taiwan also considers itself to be China. And they haven't rescinded their own claim to the mainland. CCP China wants to unify with Taiwan under their control, but Taiwan wants to unify China under their own control. Though I think even if they wanted to renounce their claims to the mainland and be an independent state they wouldn't dare to say so since CCP China would kick off over it. But I wonder how much desire their is in Taiwan to be independent vs unifying with China under their control.
This statement is somehow outdated
@@hiaNtibobangputengkai In what way?
Taiwan today has 0 appetite controlling the mainland, they are more realistic now and wanted to be independent but they are afraid of China attacking if Taiwan is changing the status quo. Taiwan is hoping on 2 things for the Future. 1. China under new ruler will be more reasonable and let Taiwan had its indpendence. 2. US will come to aid Taiwan if China attack in the future.
@@pindot787 Oh I see, if thats the case then my bad, sorry XD
The Election Study Center of Taiwan's NCCU tracks responses to this questions since the 90s. Currently, about 1.6 percent of Taiwanese want to unify with China "as soon as possible". Further 6 percent want to maintain status quo and "move towards unification" in the long run.
Don't see, though, how any mentally clear Taiwanese could fantasize about "unifying with China under their control". Taiwan is a democratic country. If they unify with China under that system, the mainland Chinese will control the country.
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The United States should not meddle in the Taiwan issue.
It should. China is an untrustworthy dictatorship.
Taiwan isn't doing enough to defend itself.
CIA destroyed Taiwan's nuking projects in the last 80s, and the US only agree providing retired weapons to Taiwan, two submarines provided to Taiwan by the United States in 1973 are still in use at the age of 80. Even banning Taiwan to developed missiles, if you are Taiwan what can you do？
Taipei is also counting too much on the ROC Armed Forces, which itself has become alarmingly lax on training and too focused on high-tech gadgets. If they were serious about defense, they should take cues from the Middle East about how to politically defeat an occupation through endemic insurgency and use of global media.
@@doujinflip I agree, Taipei wants to rely on its quasi allies too much, forgetting that it has no actual security guarantees. Taiwan needs to raise its military budget and start training its soldiers Ukraine style, to be ready for a land invasion...
US should invade Taiwan before CCP takes it if the Taiwanese aren't willing to fight.
Remove the Kuomintang flag if Taiwan is not part of China. Dr Sun yat sen picture in parliament. Taiwan itself has no identity.
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Taiwan is not a country at all, but Chinese territory, as recognized by the United Nations. The illegal regime in Taipei should be eliminated in accordance with international law, not by invasion, but by recovery
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You can recover the dead soldiers from China
There is no country named Taiwan on these earth. Taiwan has two meanings, the island Taiwan and the Taiwan province of China, claimed by both constitutions of the Republic of China (capital Taipeh) and the People's Republic of China (capital Beijing).
A country invade its own province? Ha, ha.
not a chicken feed
America: *Has 800 military bases around the world, invaded 12 countries in the last 20 years, killed 10M people, supports an apartheid state, has their most advanced navi fleet circling China*
China: *Claiming what is Universally recognised as theirs*
Americans: "cHinA tHreAt tO wOrLd pIEcE"
Just put a us military base in Taiwan. China would never do anything.
Not universally recognised as theirs. Just go and ask the Taiwanese.
Literally no one in Taiwan want to be part of China, a lot want to be on friendly terms, but not unification.
China has no legal right to Taiwan, it only keeps telling the same falsehood, hoping everyone else will eventually think it's the truth. Taiwan was part of Japan for the 50 year before the end of WW2 and the beginning of its 70 years of self-rule, when Japan was defeated. But it wasn't China that defeated Japan, it was the USA. China couldn't even liberate itself. Consequently, it was not China, but the USA and its Western Allies that took occupying in most of the former Japanese territory, including Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria and mainland Japan. It should be obvious that it China had been the victor, there would be no Taiwan question, Korean wouldn't be independent and split in two, and Okinawa would be part of China. But that isn't how things happened, and that's because the USA decided the policies for the region, not China.
@@applesofearth6187 Source: Trust me bro
Taiwan is a country made up of the islands of Formosa, Pescadores and Spratley's after Japan renounced these territories in the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951. Unfortunately, General MacArthur ordered Allied Troops from Republic of China to administer these territories instead pf letting the locals set up their own as prescribed in the UN charter and applied to other occupied territories such as Guam and Solomon Islands. Therefore, Taiwan has never been part of China.Any attempt at invasion will be considered an aggression.
Taiwan was a province of Qing dynasty before the Japanese took it by force. So why did the US have any rights to decide anything of Taiwan, a province of an allied country?
taiwan in history is part of fujian province both ming dynasty and qing dynasty, only in ww2 taiwan was ocupied by janpanese for dozens of years, as for the winner part of ww2 china retook taiwan back.
@@yuchenhuang2051 , only crazy Chinese like you believe in this nonsense. The Dutch records show that there were no Chinee people on Formosa when they arrived. All the people's names and geographic names were in Aboriginal languages, which remain to this day. Stop spreading lies.
Taiwan was returned to China in 1945 by the instrument of surrender, actually. China wasn’t even invited to San Fransisco..
Taiwan is China, no matter is PRChina or ROChina. never try to deny the fact.
Great threat for Taiwan and great mortal fear from USA !
Both U.S. Presidents Bush and Biden have said: "We will defend Taiwan" should China invade in 2027. Japan too has threatened military intervention against China with Japan's largest military build-up in over 75 years!
台湾现在的执政党推行的政策根本是违背他们自身宪法的，不过台湾也不是严格意义上的法治社会就是了。作为美国在台湾的代理人，台湾的执政党一直听命于美国政府，而美国也乐于利用台湾的分离主义，就像当年对墨西哥做的那样，美国一直支持墨西哥境内的分离主义怂恿这些组织独立，最终在美国的支持下他们在独立后成功被美国纳入版图成为现在美国的一部分，这也导致美墨战争的爆发。现在美国在台湾做的事不过是故技重施😂
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1) In 1894, Japan invaded China and Korea, the Qing govt was defeated and signed the [Treaty of Shimonoseki] to cede Taiwan Island to Japan.
2) During the WW2, at the Cairo Conference held in 1943, China asked the transfer of Taiwan's sovereignty back to China after the war. This content was included in the [Cairo Declaration] and later reiterated in the [Potsdam Proclamation] that it should be implemented.
3) In 14 Aug & 2 Sept 1945, the Emperor and govt of Japan issued the [End War Edict] and [Japanese Instrument of Surrender] , Japan surrendered and accepted the [Potsdam Proclamation]. The Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to KMT General CKS. Taiwan re-entered the territory of the Republic of China (ROC).
4) Soon after that China civil war broke out between KMT and CCP, the KMT was defeated and fled to Taiwan. However, due to US intervention, the CCP without strong navy at that time has no ability to unify Taiwan. The CCP then established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. The civil war continues.....
5) In 1971, UN Resolution No. 2758 ruled that the PRC had obtained the representation rights and all legal rights originally owned by the ROC in the UN. That means the PRC is China’s only legal govt under international law, and today the PRC also become China’s only legal govt recognized by 181 countries around the world, including the USA.
"The USA recognizes the Government of the PRC as the sole legal Government of China."
"The USA acknowledges the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China."
Joint Cummunique on the Establishment of Diplomatic relations between the PRC and the USA in 1979.
Please refer to President Jimmy Carter's Speech on Relations with China.
6) Therefore, according to international law, international reality, and the wishes of the 1.4 billion Chinese people, Taiwan should return to PRC and the PRC have every rights to protect it's sovereign integrity.
Thank you. Well put.
The US and most of the world recognize Taiwan as part of "China", but not necessarily as under the sovereignty of the PRC. This is the difference between Beijing's One China Principle, and the One China Policy these other nations justify their standing "unofficial" relations with Taipei.
it doesn't matter what the Chinese people think, it only matters what the Taiwanese people think.
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The first principle to have formal diplomatic relation with the PRC is to recognise Taiwan as part of PRC. Now, 181 countries around the world have formal diplomatic relation with the PRC.
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What PRC really looking for is the unification of Taiwan not against the international UN law. When the PRC take action to unify Taiwan, that means she ready to decouple with the West.
Would you rather live under a mediocre dictatorship or not live at all ?
As a fellow Chinese person I wish, our brothers peace and life
This communist phase has gone on too long
We need to have freedom while still fighting us domination and western arrogance
Freedom is when the Chinese in China will eventually get rid of communist dictatorship for the return of ROC to restore democracy according to Dr.Sun, 3 principles.
@@thornados4969 CPC actually adheres closer to Sun's principle than whatever tf is going on in TW
@@ruifenghuang1029 That's not what happened. Communism is the opposite of democracy. Dr.Sun's first principle is based on western democracy to run the country. He was the founder of China's republic. CCP was the traitor and destroyer of Dr.Sun's republic. The communist ideology is harsh and extreme. China now is ruled by a dictatorial party that owns the state and the people are subjects (slaves) to serve their masters (communist party).
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Just don’t declare independence and don’t make that a political rhetoric. Taiwan is safe!
Just don’t invade other country and China will be a better country. Oh, still lacking of human rights and democracy
Taiwan have been invaded by china for the Nth time and counting 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
chinese spider jets!
Taiwan negara kecil tapi lebih maju Taiwan ketimbang Republik rakyat china yang sampe sekarang masih pada miskin penduduk nya
I know how China embition is, i am from VN and China try to invaded our country for 2000 years but for Taiwan i don't know how long will take China to control Taiwan..maybe from 5 to 10 years ?
别忘了，越南也侵略了占婆和柬埔寨 胡志明在两百年前都不是越南的
As a Korean, I'll say china will try to conquer Taiwan as long as if country is still useful to china, their greed is very powerful than your thought
Vietnamese are Chinese. End of discussion.
I’m sure China are very prepared, they don’t have a single current serving soldier with any proper combat experience, still paying hundreds of thousands to retired British pilots to train their own, and their allies are as weak as kittens.
不習一切代價就要統一，請共產黨下台，施行中華民國憲法，那就自動統一，不用流血😂
Someone needs to put America in its place just like Vietnam did😂
Taiwan wants to fight a war with mainland China because it does not want to end up like Hong Kong. Is being like Hong Kong that bad compared to ending up like Ukraine?
People in Hong Kong still living life like normal. They going to find out going against China.
什么叫做香港那样的下场？
It’s a very sad and foolish situation if Taiwan go to war with China, China will definitely punish Taiwan and then nobody no country really will engage the CCP. It’s better to leave that situation to themselves anyway Asian dealing with Asian they understand each other cultures and way of thinking better so the west should step out of it.😊
Every talk of war comes from an American. Neocons fear the rise of China, economically and militarily. Just as the US provoked Russia into attacking Taiwan, the US would provoke a proxy war by telling its puppets in Taiwan to declare independence. But the 1st step in a proxy war is a blockade to prevent Taiwanese chips from going to the US/EUrope. This is what's currently stopping the uS from provoking a proxy war.
Taiwan is not going to war with China, it is the other way around. China wants to invade, conquer, and annex Taiwan. That is a very big and important distinction.
I guess no one really knows. China has been running its mouth for 70 years and never made a real move.
@@spastikman It's odd you're using the words invade, conquer, and annex to describe a civil war between the Republic of China and the Peoples Republic of China.
peace or war !!!!
Unifying not invasion
Taiwan should d