I haven't really posted about politics here in a long time, kind of because I don't want to get into the endless arguments, but the recent developments in the Taiwan strait has seriously caught my attention.
People don't realize how seriously nationalist and pro-military some of the Chinese today are (especially the younger generation of Chinese people, believe it or not), and how fiercely determined they are to "reunify" mainland China and Taiwan, regardless of how many lives are lost - it seems to be a critical issue of national sovereignty and pride for them. Even online, lots of Chinese people seem to consider conquering Taiwan as a way to revitalize and restore the greatness and glory of the ancient Chinese civilization in the 21st century, a means of "completing" their so-called Chinese Dream in Asia.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/china...mic/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...isit-to-taiwan
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/poli...se-nationalism
https://theprint.in/opinion/chinasco...-down/1073641/
90% of the largest container ships transited via the Taiwan strait this year alone, so any crisis would significantly disrupt the world economy, and Taiwan is America's 9th largest trading partner and the 8th largest economy in Asia, as well as the 21st
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...shipping-lanes
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres...214917571.html
https://www.americanactionforum.org/...de-and-taiwan/
People can make comparisons with Ukraine, but America's security alliance with Taiwan is much older and closer, and there's also that Taiwan Relations Act to consider, and a new Taiwan Policy Act regarding Taiwan being given "major non-NATO ally" status is even now being argued by Biden's administration and the two parties.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...lenge-us-china
https://uphill.thedispatch.com/p/tai...SigningIn=true
Lots of analysts are even saying this could potentially lead to WW3, or at least a major conflict in the Indo-Pacific. I'm just curious, would most Americans (and most Europeans at that) actually support their governments and militaries intervening in the event of a real war between China and Taiwan? Why or why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vsRMc8TVL8
And lots of Chinese people today hate the USA and its allies (India, Japan, Vietnam and South Korea) while openly supporting North Korea, Pakistan and Russia:
https://thediplomat.com/2022/05/chin...on-of-ukraine/