Jump to content

Recommended Posts

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 4 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...
  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

 

 

We tried a show of force with our newest hypersonic and it only hit mach 4 and missed the entire islands it was targeting. 

 

They had a hypersonic go around the globe in 21

  • 2 months later...
Posted

 

 

 

This Could Be the Start of China's Invasion of Taiwan

JOHN SEXTON 

 

13044698-e956-4d4a-9b60-3eef14709b00-105

 

China's invasion of Taiwan was probably always going to look a lot like China takeover of Hong Kong.

 

If you recall, Hong Kong was also relatively free and independent until China pushed through new laws which made it a crime to say anything bad about the mainland.

 

That of course also meant that you couldn't hold big protests in the streets complaining about the mainland. From there it was a relatively simple matter to arrest and threaten all the protest leaders with long prison sentences and to shut down media voices that sided with the protesters. Over the span of about a year, Hong Kong's freedoms evaporated.

 

Over the last few days Taiwan has seen the start of what may be the same process. A week ago, Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, was inaugurated as Taiwan's new president. As the leader of the DPP, he gave a speech focused on maintaining the status quo, one in which Taiwan has its own sovereignty and runs democratic elections separate from mainland China, albeit without international recognition as a distinct country. China responded to his win and his speech refusing to bend the knee with a series of military drills which they described as "punishment" for President Lai's "separatist" attitude.

 

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/05/28/this-could-be-the-start-of-chinas-invasion-of-taiwan-n3789186

 

 

 

,

  • 8 months later...
  • 4 months later...
Posted

handout-photograph-taken-released-kazakh

 

Is Chinese President Xi Jinping on his way out?

By Gregory W. Slayton

 

Over the past few months, unprecedented developments point to the potential, and potentially imminent, fall of China’s “Chairman of Everything” Xi Jinping. Chinese Communist Party elders — including Hu Jintao, Xi’s immediate predecessor, whom Xi humiliated at the 20th Party Congress in 2022 — are now running things behind the scenes.

 

Xi is in poor health and likely to retire at the CCP Plenary Session this August or take a purely ceremonial position.

 

Xi’s downfall has been rumored before. But never have we seen the recent purges (and mysterious deaths) of dozens of People’s Liberation Army generals loyal to Xi; all replaced by non-Xi loyalists.

 

Zhang Youxia, with whom Xi had a major falling out after helping Xi secure an unprecedented third five-year term, is now the de facto leader of the PLA.

 

https://nypost.com/2025/06/28/opinion/is-chinese-pres-xi-jinping-on-his-way-out/

 

 

×
×
  • Create New...