Beijing has threatened to 'resolutely smash' any Taiwanese move toward independence, never mind that mainland China has seldom in its history controlled the island.
Beijing has threatened to"resolutely smash" any Taiwanese move toward independence, never mind that mainland China has seldom in its history controlled the island.
First, there is limited evidence that China would go big on Taiwan. Despite a massive military build-up that successfully leads weak leaders in Washington and outside to self-deter, China’s go-to strategy of choice has been to salami-slice: Make successive tiny moves that fall below the threshold of generating a military response that in sum achieve much the same aim.
China may be an increasingly totalitarian dictatorship, but even dictators must be mindful of angering their core supporters, in this case, the elite families from Beijing and Shanghai, who will be loath to lose their only sons upon whom they counted for their future prosperity. Ordinary Chinese, brainwashed by the Chinese media bubble, may rally around Xi Jinping's irredentism just as Russians embrace Vladimir Putin’s nonsensical interpretation of history.
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