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Mark Wauck's avatar

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/current-pla-drills-around-taiwan-are-bigger-scope-exercises-triggered-pelosi

These are major military exercises by China around Taiwan, with more "exclusion zones" that are larger in scale than the exercises triggered by Pelosi's visit and closer to the island.

They are basically demonstrating that they can completely blockade the islands, with the zones placed in front of Taiwan's biggest ports (like Kaohsiung to the South, where a lot of Taiwan's navy is, or Hualien to the East), as well as protect the mainland at the same time. It's not a sign of imminent war, simply a reaction to Lai's presidential inauguration speech where he hinted at significant changes to the status quo towards independence, so much so that even the Financial Times ran an article saying that "China has a point" when they were warning about Lai's intention to change the status quo.

Wow, that's exceedingly rare. The FT admits that the ROC's new leader Lai Ching-te is attempting the change the status quo across the Taiwan strait and that "China has a point" in this regard.https://t.co/cfuMnnLNBs

Here is what they write:

"China is right to say that Lai is…

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) May 22, 2024

This is China telling him "don't get any ideas".

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Taiwan's President just got inaugurated on May 20th. This is just China being China, and giving a reminder to Taiwan's new President about the balance of Power. China has been doing lots of showing of forces around Taiwan for a while. It does not get covered in the US media, but the Taiwan Media covers it.

There are only certain times of year that the weather makes sense for an invasion, and the weather windows per some are around April and October. So it's unlikely in June.

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