Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China

The news media needs to stop using the word "reunify" to refer to the PRC's threatened imperial conquest of an island they've never controlled.

If they invade, won't all the chip fabrication places just blow all their shit up and wipe systems? Pretty sure TSMC said that was the plan.

Doesn't seem like they'll be able to capture a whole lot aside from land and that will come at a pretty steep cost I'd imagine.

"Reunify". Just like Putin tries to reunify Ukraine with Russland... Strange how one is called Invasion and the other Reunifying

A. Xi said they would prefer to do it peacefully.

B. Autocratic regimes routinely define "peacefully" as a coup or overnight invasion.

C. Xi specifically set an atmosphere of strategic uncertainty by saying a time "hadn't been decided".

That tells me they've given up on winning elections in Taiwan. If they're scheduling it then it's not on Taiwan's election schedule. Ergo, definitely not peacefully in democratic terms.

Well it will be interesting at least.

"Re-unify" is dipshit-speak for invade, pillage and crush.. for anyone wondering.

Someone said after Russia's military was shown to be a farce, that if they were China they'd be shitting their pants and immediately launch an investigation into how good their military actually is.

Take the hint Xi, she's just not into you.

ROC is gonna take back the mainland?

China gaining Taiwan would end global trade. That is the reason no one will let them forcibly take it.

It's wild how they're still obsessed with Taiwan, despite CCP being recognized as China for many decades now. I wonder how much of this is elderly people who still consider the civil war unfinished and how much is strategic. It seems like invading would not be in China's interest. Perhaps they want to do it before their demographic population collapse occurs.

China is hostage state that nurtures Stockholm Syndrome in it's population (similar to DPRK and others). You can only "leave" if it's deemed useful and safe for China (i.e. you have Stockholm Syndrome strongly enough). And those that leave are still under control, i.e. their (edited) behavior can be coerced by using carrot and stick methods on their family and loved ones.

By having the CCP step down, right?

simple extortion from the boss of a criminal mafia

I thought they were holding hands at first glance. 🥰

I thought I read like 3 weeks ago they had no interest anytime soon

This is like Kevin Heart warning Mike Tyson. LOL, just funny and stupid.

If trying to invade Taiwan weakens china like it did with Russia invading Ukraine then I’m all for it. Fuck china

This is the best summary I could come up with:

At last year’s Chinese Communist Party Congress, Xi stated publicly that China would attack Taiwan militarily if it declares independence with foreign support.

Xi, who has set a goal of doubling the size of the Chinese economy by 2035, also said that "we must continue to pursue economic development as our central task."

Some experts believe it is doubtful that China would attack Taiwan if it does not declare independence because a military conflict would likely prevent Beijing from reaching its economic goals.

During the summit in San Francisco, Xi expressed concerns about the candidates running for president of Taiwan in next month’s election, according to U.S. officials.

Biden’s meeting with Xi, their first in a year, took American officials months to secure after relations between Washington and Beijing reached a low point in February after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon.

CIA Director William Burns said earlier this year that U.S. intelligence shows that Xi has directed his military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027.

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bla bla... but everyone still buys shit from china... you use iphones, chrome and everything as long as it is convenient for you... and then do the butthurt cry here. hows that supposed to change anything?

China wants to maintain the status quo and believes (perhaps wrongly) that Taiwan will eventually normalize relations with China due to economic opportunities.

The US wants Taiwan to declare independence to contain the China threat, which is why the US funnels so many resources from government-funded entities like the National Endowment for Democracy to Taiwan's DPP.

The fact that the US is taking more overt action in Taiwan today is a sign that there's a perception in Washington that China's status quo strategy is working.