CNN's Will Ripley reports tension between China and the US is on the rise, as the dispute over Taiwan continues and the self-ruled island looks to boost its asymmetric warfare capabilities against China's growing military threat.
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This is the end of the world kind of scenario. Prayers that this doesn’t happen.
@Jesus that’s not very Jesus like don’t think that how Jesus would of said r did it just stating my thoughts 💭
Prayers that this happens. Wokeness will die one way or another.
My Best wishes for your work Love and Peace to your family !
If Xi Jinping ever gets his way, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and the Phillipines will be speaking Mandarin. God Bless President Biden on AUKUS. It is a master stroke.
@天月🌚 lol, you have to admire their educations. 😅😅
@拂飄搖 Still Chinese.
China waking up to the reality of a possible NATO style defence pact in the region given its neighbours are thinking alike now when it comes to how to push back against China , and that’s safety in numbers which has all ready witnessed countries forming their own alliances and like in 2021/22 participated in some of the biggest joint naval exercises ever seen in the region
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No it’s Ting tong Ping pong
we fought US-led 17 countries UN force in Korean War, so your quantity just won’t scare us.
Our species is foolish. Make threats, build weapons, go to war, destroy that which you seek to aquire, win and gain little or nothing and lose many lives doing it.
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Always love seeing Will Ripley
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Suspected spy balloon?? By now, we should know if it was really a spy balloon or a whether balloon .
@Paul Kent The one who called it as “spy” balloon has the responsibility to prove it can perform spy function.
The balloon was too big to be a spy balloon and didn’t designed to avoid noticed. How stupid for any guys to believe they were able to watch a real spy balloon.
It would be pretty funny if the US lose against China in the Taiwan conflict. Rarely does the US ever lose in wars but if this Taiwan conflict is the one they lose one in then it will be an extreme shocker to everyone just like how people are shocked when Ukraine is holding strong when Russia is supposed to take it in a couple weeks. USA and Russia both could be considered paper tigers at this point. The times we are living in is crazy and miraculous.
@L. Diaz If it wasn’t for Russia we would’ve never defeated the nazis in World War II
both USA and Russia could be considered as papaer tigers? you know who invented this saying ‘paper tiger’? it’s Chairman Mao.
after CCP beat USA in Korea and Vietnam, also beat India and Soviet on border.
@FUCKTHESYSTEM70 You skipped one, Saddam was defeated in 100 hours. Again if we lost the Korean war, why is there still a South Korea? Stalemate isn’t a Lost LOL!
Note, I’ve posted many times that there never should have been a 2nd Gulf War. When we to Afghanistan, we should have gotten Bin Ladin and got the hell out.
@FUCKTHESYSTEM70 But the war machine made a lot of profit. That’s all that seems to matter.
Even with that deal In the process of us preparing all they would have to do is make a move In the middle of that process The way things are looking I hope everybody can come to an agreement of some kind this is just about egos And power now Greed is the root of all evil
“We have only one thing to learn from the barbarians (Europeans), and that is strong ships and effective guns.”
– Feng Guifen, 1861
@The New Nazis the US bank is collapsing sad
@Iggy china is in decline 🥺 Sad 🥹
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China is collapsing??
We have collapsed for more than 40 years. If we didn’t collapse that day, we would not be used to it.
Just take a look to Chinese weapons 2023 👀💪💪💪👍you will be worried
It’s funny how history repeats itself. In the past 500 years, on every change of Empire, we faced exactly the same transition with exactly the same indicators. Financial, military, cultural, linguistic. It started with the Portuguese in the 15th century, the Dutch in the 16th century, the British empire,17&18th century, until now with the American world leading power. The recent banking problem in the US, is only the beginning of a new world order. Since last year military budgets are sky-rocketing all over the world, yet another common indicator over the the past centuries… The question is, who will be next ?
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This is Mankind’s Final War.
Nope the next one will be fought with sticks and stones
@mo k are you sure ??
It’s a fair bet
Ukraine 2014
U.S. War crimes around the world
See also the Nonviolent Actions List.
There is a reason that most countries polled in December 2013 by Gallup called the United States the greatest threat to peace in the world, and why Pew found that viewpoint increased in 2017.
But it is a reason that eludes that strain of U.S. academia that first defines war as something that nations and groups other than the United States do, and then concludes that war has nearly vanished from the earth.
Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 86 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
See also How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3: Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen by Nicolas Davies
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
U.S. weapons are used on both sides of many wars.
In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources:
David Vine: The United States of War
William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People
William Appleman Williams: Empire As a Way of Life
I can link to some others first. Here is a PDF from 2022 from the U.S. Congressional Research Service admitting to hundreds of U.S. military interventions abroad between 1798 and 2022.
And here is a PDF of a journal article about something called the Military Intervention Project, which can also be found here and here and here. The authors claim to have a list of 392 U.S. military interventions between 1776 and 2019, but do not seem to actually produce the list. There are, however, extensive descriptions of it at those links, including:
“The United States has carried out 34 percent of its 392 interventions against countries in Latin America and the Caribbean; 23 percent in East Asia and the Pacific region; 14 percent in the Middle East and North Africa; and just 13 percent in Europe and Central Asia, according to a newly refined version of the Military Intervention Project (MIP) dataset — a venture of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.”
From David Vine’s The United States at War:
1941-1945 World War II (Europe, North Africa, Asia/Pacific)
1946 Trieste
1947-1949 Greece
1948-1949 Berlin, Germany
1950 Formosa (Taiwan)
1950-1953 Korea
1953-1954 Formosa (Taiwan)
1955-1975 Vietnam
1956 Egypt
1958 Lebanon
1962 Cuba
1962 Thailand
1962-1975 Laos
1964 Congo (Zaire)
1965 Dominican Republic
1965-1973 Cambodia
1967 Congo (Zaire)
1976 Korea
1978 Congo (Zaire)
1980 Iran
1981 El Salvador
1981 Libya
1981-1989 Nicaragua
1982-1983 Egypt
1982-1983 Lebanon
1983 Chad
1983 Grenada
1986 Bolivia
1986 Libya
1987-1988 Iran
1988 Panama
1989 Bolivia
1989 Colombia
1989 Libya
1989 Peru
1989 Philippines
1989-1990 Panama
1990 Saudi Arabia
1991 Congo (Zaire)
1991-1992 Kuwait
1991-1993 Iraq
1992-1994 Somalia
1993-1994 Macedonia
1993-1996 Haiti
1993-2005 Bosnia
1995 Serbia
1996 Liberia
1996 Rwanda
1997-2003 Iraq
1998 Afghanistan
1998 Sudan
1999-2000 Kosovo
1999-2000 Montenegro
1999-2000 Serbia
2000 Yemen
2000-2002 East Timor
2000-2016 Colombia
2001 – Afghanistan
2001- Pakistan
2001- Somalia
2002-2015 Philippines
2002- Yemen
2003-2011 Iraq
2004 Haiti
c2004- Kenya
2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2011-2017 Uganda
2011- Libya
c2012- Central African Republic
c2012- Mali
c2013-2016 South Sudan
c2013- Burkina Faso
c2013- Chad
c2013- Mauritania
c2013- Niger
c2013- Nigeria
2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2014- Iraq
2014- Syria
2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo
c2015- Cameroon
2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2017- Saudi Arabia
c2017 Tunisia
2019- Philippines
The supreme international crime according to 2017 U.S. media reporting is interferring nonviolently in a democratic election — at least if Russia does it. William Blum, in his book Rogue State, lists over 30 times that the United States has done that. Another study, however, says 81 elections in 47 countries. France 2017 makes that total at least 82. Honduras 2017 makes it 83. Russia 2018 makes it 84. The 2020-revealed 1964 coup in British Guiana makes it 85. Somalia 2022 would be 86. There are clearly dozens more.
In a reality-based assessment of U.S. crimes, the serious offenses begin beyond that threshold. Here’s Blum’s list of over 50 foreign leaders whom the United States has attempted to assassinate:
1949 – Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s – CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be “put out of the way” in the event of a Soviet invasion
1950s – Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1962 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1953 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 – Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959, 1963, 1969 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 – Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950s-70s – José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 – Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)
1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s-70s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life
1960s – Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 – Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 – Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 – General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 – General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
1982 – Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 – Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 – Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 – The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate
1985 – Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)
1991 – Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1993 – Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia
1998, 2001-2 – Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999 – Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
2002 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord
2003 – Saddam Hussein and his two sons
2011 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya
Let me know of any updates or corrections, and I’ll add them.
Thanks to Said Zulficar for pointing out the need to add Jaime Roldos, President of Ecuador, assassinated May 1981. John Perkins, in his book Touching the Jaguar, makes a case that both Jaime Roldos of Ecuador and Omar Torrijos of Panama (also in 1981) were very likely U.S.-backed assassinations.
According to the evidence in Nicholson Baker’s 2020 book Baseless, we also need to add the 1948 assassination of Jorge Gaitán in Colombia.
@khmerkidz2600 If you have any self respect, you need to volunteer for Ukraine. One year into the war, a typical battalion of 500 men at the start of the war was completely wiped out with 100 dead and 400 wounded who can no longer fight. If you’re just a coward hiding behind the keyboard, at least you need to sell your house to support Ukraine.
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What if China decided to support the indigenous Hawaiian movement for separation from the US and restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy? Starts selling arms to the movement. Sends warships to the islands?
If anything, the US leans on Taiwan to not declare independece.
Poor analogy. It was the PRC that seceded from the ROC (todays “Taiwan”) in 1949….
We didn’t listen to our WW2 veterans enough. We are repeating history. Only if we would have listened.
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Who is authoritarianism?
You can ask the people of the world who is authoritarianism.
Best we all agree to disagree. That’s what makes America great. People can think however they choose To.
We just heard about the battles we will never know what truly happened during ww2
@千川 越 Definitely it’s who wants to start a war
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Are there any American cultural relics in our museum?
FYI, Taiwan’s constitution also claims entire China. But you won’t mention it. And we know why.
@Martin Fiedler yes it does you, better study n explore about it
@Prakash Thapa Again, the ROC constitutional court decided otherwise in 1993.
A court that was filled with pro-KMT judges that made their career during the KMT dictatorship which claimed exactly that the constitution determines mainland China s ROC-territory.
Even these judges, when they had to make a ruling, were not able to find an argument that the constitution determines the ROC national territory.
Sais a lot for anyone who knows about Chinese history…
Our constitution also mentioned democracy, freedom of speech, sovereignty and so on. Why don’t you mention them? Apparently your eyes only works when reading something you wanna see.
@Martin Fiedler you are good at wordplay, do you really pretend there’s no ONE CHINA POLICY and U.N. charter? cut the crap, just go to join Taiwan army.
I don’t think market is still worth trading and profit oriented..
The losses made in this economic downturn are so on the increase….
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@Alexander johnLol 😂😆 it scammers
14 nation recognize republic of china（the official name of taiwan government），and in ROC‘s constitution ，it says roc is the only legal represent of China，and claimed mainland ，Mongolia ，11 dash line in south China sea as its sovereign territory
Honduras just joined Team PRC. 😁
If the West, particular US loves Taiwan that much, why not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation and establish official diplomatic ties with Taiwan? Let me remind you, United Nations abide to One China Policy, meaning Taiwan belongs China as a sovereign territory.
Note the reference to the island as : “Taiwan Province of China”
Based on this, they can make a case that sending arms to the island is unlawful. They should act through the UN and resolve this peacefully.
@tomtube1012 Totally agree. They should resolve this through the UN.
@tomtube1012 UN wouldn’t be able to do anything. US would just veto any resolution that goes against its interests
Fun fact: even the US recognizes Taiwan as a part of China