The US has been prepping us for war with the Giant Panda for over a year now
Western imperialism can't bear her economic might; though the US and her lapdogs; the UK and Oz, will be the losers in any war
A picture above from the ‘Radio times’ of a BBC program May 2023.
The history of Taiwan involves up to a million people of The Kuomintang, the Nationalist party of China, who retreated to there in 1947 after losing the civil war to the communists. Many still feel they are part of one China.
According to a long time resident ‘The Nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1947. It's been more than 75 years since then and few of the old guard remain. Many of their children intermarried with Taiwanese whose families found their way to the island at various times over the past 400 years, and their children's children (today's generation of 25-45ish) overwhelmingly identify as Taiwanese. There have been all sorts of opinion polls conducted among Taiwan's 23 million people. In recent years, the vast majority favour independence or the status quo of de facto independence from China. When the question of independence probes into the issue of independence without the threat of attack or invasion from China more than 70% of Taiwanese are in favour of it. Of course, the practical reality is that any unilateral move toward de facto independence would draw an attack from the PRC. And that's nothing that Taiwan's wussified younger generation of fighting-age males can withstand.’
Taiwan is of course important to the world for the manufacture of electronic chips. Highly skilled engineers work in unpleasant, sterile conditions, unacceptable to many around the world. That’s why the US doesn’t want China to control Taiwan, not because it cares for its people, but because it needs access to these semiconductors.
The Taiwanese allegedly threaten to destroy the factories rather than let China have them. Recently the Taiwanese Semiconductor Company (TCMC) who have the rights and the expertise to make the chips (using Dutch and British technology) have been looking at setting up a factory in the US, possibly to keep the manufacturer and supply of semiconductors going should a battle between superpowers be fought over Taiwan. And ensuing that the West are the ones who have access Why is TSMC Building a Fab in the American Desert?
‘Everyone is working hard to overcome the poor overall environment, including labor and material shortages,” says Lee Huei-wen, president of United Integrated Services (UIS), a major clean room provider for TSMC.
One supply chain insider disclosed that equipment such as the specialized gas lines and exhaust systems for clean rooms use a modular approach consisting of “manufacture in Taiwan, transport of the entire plant, and assembly in the U.S.”
This is a completely new situation for Taiwanese vendors: moving from a low-cost country to a high-cost country, where cost planning, the language environment, assessment of the local regulatory environment, and operational strategy are completely different.
Other roles TSMC is currently seeking to fill for its Arizona plant include engineer, analytical chemist, as well as nearly 70 new positions, including global logistics management specialist and global supply chain specialist.’
The US HATES China being a rival economic super power. China has made no physical aggressive action, Xi is only (according to the West) spouting disinformation. We will see if the US/UK/NATO will poke the Giant Panda enough so that she will act, just as they poked the Russian Bear. They are blaming Russian and Chinese expansionism (both enormous countries already have enough problems to contend with) and greed. The hypocrisy.
According to the guardian March 14th. “ Relations between China and the US are at their lowest in decades. Various channels of communication, including military dialogues, have been paused since Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the US House of Representatives, visited Taiwan in August (just like before the Russian Military Operation Kamala Harris went to Ukraine to help them secure the border and to stir up Putin with talks of NATO expansion).
The US and its allies are increasingly worried about the prospect of China launching a conflict with Taiwan, which would be catastrophic for the self-governing island’s 23 million people and would spill over into the rest of the region. Observers are watching closely for signs that China’s military is preparing for such an attack. On Monday Xi closed China’s annual parliamentary session with a speech in which he promised to build China’s armed forces into a “great wall of steel”( China hates the thought of being invaded again).
On Tuesday, Taiwan’s foreign ministry said it “welcomes the continued advancement of the Aukus partnership”, noting that Taiwan is “at the forefront of the fight against authoritarian expansion”.
Biden has promised to respond militarily if China invades Taiwan, but of the allies Australia would be the first to feel the impact of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific. Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, said the Aukus deal, which is forecast to cost $268bn (£220bn) to $368bn (more $billions direct to arms dealers from tax payers), was the “biggest single investment in Australia’s defence (but not defence of Australia) capability in all of its history”.
‘China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said during a regular press briefing on Tuesday. ‘The latest joint statement from the US, UK and Australia demonstrates that the three countries, for the sake of their own geopolitical interests, completely disregard the concerns of the international communities and are walking further and further down the path of error and danger, (they may not be nukes but they’re still missiles pointing at his country) ‘.’
How would the Americans feel if countries with arms lined up along Alaska? Wang Wenbin said the US ‘should come forward sincerely, with practical actions to promote China-US relations’. The US is doing a great job at doing the opposite of that with both China and Russia.
‘The multibillion-dollar deal, announced during a meeting of Aukus leaders in San Diego on Monday, will provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines in an effort to counter the rise of China (‘s economy) in the Indo-Pacific.’
There are also concerns China is stealing British people’s genetic data and Chinese students are barred from working in UK labs. From the Guardian March 15th ‘More than 1,000 scientists and postgraduate students (from China) were barred from working in the UK last year on national security grounds, amid a major government crackdown on research collaborations with China.
We’ve gone from announcing a new ‘golden era’ of bilateral relations with China to plunging our scientific links into the deep freeze,” he ( a professor at UCL) said.’
The FBI/CIA have also definitely used Twitter/FB/Youtube/Instagram to monitor, censor (for example valid evidence of ‘covid’ jab injures) and to influence our opinion (about whether to take said experimental ‘covid’ jabs, among other things) Matt Taibbi and the Twitter files
And of course the whole ‘lab leak’ hoax, created by the US using social media and paper trails, supposedly arising in Wuhan, is intended to stir up anti-Chinese feeling. As are fears of left-wing control, communism and social credit scores.
Enemies within, and fascism, are not always obvious.
🐒
My sympathies have been with the Taiwan people since I visited there many years ago. I am having trouble writing anything about American advantages, as both the PRC and the ROC are sovereign nations. America should just butt out.
Sigh. Don't we have enough problems here that we aren't taking care of to want to create new and needless ones overseas? It seems the only thing this administration is good at is focusing on the inconsequential (i.e., things that don't need to be done and that will harm us if they are done, like the gas stove and washing machine thing, and the promotion of woke policies everywhere, plus forcing the vaccine mandate, etc, etc, etc) that only they care about but that wreak havoc for the rest of us.