The Taiwan count down has begun!

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Warning as Taiwan is on high alert after China’s navy prowls the coast!

An analyst has suggested China may be ramping up tensions as the US is focused on supporting Israel against Hamas.

China may be using the distraction of the Israel - Hamas war to increase its threat level towards Taiwan, an analyst has suggested.

Beijing sent its aircraft carrier Shandong through the Bashi Channel - a strategic gateway between Taiwan and the Philippines - in the latest in a string of provocative exercises.

By placing the aircraft carrier here during its exercise, China effectively blocked Taiwan off from the western Pacific Ocean, where help from its allies would likely come in the event of full-scale war.

Shandong, China’s first domestically built carrier, holds up to 44 aircraft and is armed with the Type 1130 defence system and HQ-10 missiles.


https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1831840/taiwan-china-navy-warning

Democrats insist China has the right to control the world's semi-conductor supply!

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 What the World Can Learn From 2 Taiwanese Activists Jailed in China!

Their stories serve as a warning of the potential fate for Taiwan itself if Xi Jinping decides to take the island.

Two months ago, I was in Taiwan where, among other people, I met two Taiwanese men who spent time in Chinese prisons. Their stories serve as a warning of the potential fate for Taiwan itself if Xi Jinping decides to take the island.

Lee Ming-che was sentenced to five years in jail in China in 2017 and returned home in April 2022. Lee Meng-chu (also known as Morrison Lee) was arrested in 2019, and only returned home to his family in Taipei three days before we met.

Lee Ming-che is a long-time human rights activist. He supported Chinese political dissidents financially, and disseminated information about universal human rights and democracy online to mainland Chinese audiences. For these activities, he was accused of “subversion of state power” and spent five years in prison in China.

Lee Meng-chu was a businessman who attended one of the protests in Hong Kong in 2019. He was caught at the border-crossing into mainland China in Shenzhen with postcards promoting “love, peace, compassion and communication,” and flyers that said “Hong Kong and Taiwan stand together.” He spent 72 days in “residential surveillance at a designated location” (RSDL) – the Chinese regime’s term for detention in a “black jail” – incommunicado, with no access to legal counsel, entirely outside the justice system. He then spent a year and five months in a detention center and another five months in jail.

https://thediplomat.com/2023/11/what-the-world-can-learn-from-2-taiwanese-activists-jailed-in-china/

Remember Democrats insist China is better than America!

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Key Takeaways

• The negotiations between the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and Kuomintang (KMT) about forming a joint presidential ticket have stalled.
  
• The PRC instigated two aggressive encounters with US-allied militaries in the South China Sea between October 29 and November 6.
  
• The PRC is using the Israel-Palestinian conflict to bolster its image as a fair, responsible broker in contrast to the “biased” United States.
  
• The PRC extended a naval deployment in the Middle East during the Israel-Hamas war, possibly as a means of increasing its influence in the Middle East.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-weekly-update-november-10-2023

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China’s military sent over seven aircraft sorties and five ships operating around the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said.

On Saturday, mainland China’s military, known formally as the People’s Liberation Army, said that seven aircraft sorties and five ships were detected near the island in a 24-hour period.

China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, flies warplanes toward the self-governing island on a near-daily basis.

When asked about the activity, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning has previously said that there is no such thing as a “median line” because the island of Taiwan, although self-governing, is recognized officially as part of Chinese territory.

Most of the international community, including the US, formally recognizes the “One-China” policy, although President Biden said the US would respond should China invade the island – a comment the White House later walked back.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/12/news/taiwan-says-chinese-government-sent-seven-aircrafts-five-ships-near-island/

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Democrats see nothing wrong with what China is doing!

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/IkkomAf1ito" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/IkkomAf1ito</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkkomAf1ito

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On Wednesday, four Republican candidates will take the stage in Tuscaloosa, Ala. for the fourth presidential primary debate. Foreign policy may not be the top issue in American politics, but two-thirds of Republicans say that China poses the greatest foreign threat to the United States. China’s rapid military buildup and human rights abuses are the leading concerns among Republicans, according to a recent poll by the Ronald Reagan Institute.

So it’s important to ask what these 2024 presidential hopefuls would do to address these challenges. Each of the candidates — Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie — has spoken about how they would handle U.S. relations with China. These speeches, as well as comments from former U.S. president Donald Trump, suggest some major differences among the candidates.

Given how important China is to voters, moderators Eliana Johnson, Megyn Kelly, and Elizabeth Vargas should consider asking the candidates these questions:

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/5-questions-about-china-that-wednesdays-republican-presidential-debate-needs-to-answer/

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A Chinese Pearl Harbor-style attack could end America’s days as a superpower!

As Americans pause to reflect on Imperial Japan’s brutal attack on Pearl Harbor — 82 years ago Thursday — the US military faces an even bigger threat coming from Asia once again.

There’s ample evidence that if China were to go to war against America, it would use the same strategy as Japan to try to achieve a quick and dirty victory — but with a modern twist: a massive “bolt-from-the-blue attack” that could, in not even a day, wipe out most of our military assets in the Indo-Pacific region and perhaps forever mark the end of the United States as a superpower.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-chinese-pearl-harbor-style-attack-could-end-america-s-days-as-a-superpower/ar-AA1l7dFA

China wouldn't make the mistakes Japan did in 1941!

They wouldn't sink our ships where they could easily be refloated and repaired!

If we sail to defend Taiwan the PRC will stop at nothing to make it a one-way trip!

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Democrats are praying for a Chinese victory!

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/lfOID3FMTUI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/lfOID3FMTUI</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfOID3FMTUI

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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it spotted a Chinese surveillance balloon in the Taiwan Strait along with a large-scale movement of military aircraft and ships.

The ministry said the balloon passed southwest of the northern port city of Keelung on Thursday night, then continued east before disappearing, possibly into the Pacific Ocean.

There seemed to be some uncertainty about whether the balloon was operated by the People's Liberation Army, the military branch of China's ruling Communist Party. The ministry referred to it both as a ”PLA surveillance balloon" and as “PRC's balloon," using the acronym for the People's Republic of China, China's official name.

A Defense Ministry spokesperson said they had no additional information.

The incident came just over a month before Taiwan is to hold elections for president and the legislature and raises questions about possible Chinese efforts to influence the vote.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chinese-military-surveillance-balloon-spotted-taiwan-strait-islands-105487719

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Key Takeaways:

   

•     KMT presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih gained significant support since November 24 and closed the gap with DPP presidential candidate Lai Ching-te, who leads in the polls.[/B]
  
•     A loss of Compacts of Free Association (COFA) funding for Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands would exacerbate CCP leverage points over these countries.
  
•     The CCP aims to use the December 7 EU-PRC summit to advance its goal of increasing economic cooperation with Europe while preventing an EU consensus on “de-risking” from materializing.
  
•     The Philippines Coast Guard announced over 100 Chinese Maritime Militia vessels “swarmed” the Philippine-controlled Whitson Reef in the South China Sea.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-weekly-update-december-7-2023