China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says
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Xi Jinping told an EU leader that the US was trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, per the Financial Times, amid increasing tensions.
  • biribiri11@lemmy.ml
    442·
    2 years ago

    Can’t believe he figured it out. What a shame. Guess we’ll have to go provoke another country to invade our fellow flourishing independent democracies, who play a key role in the world’s trade.

    Seriously though, I hope he’s just giving himself an easy out here. There’s always too much war going on.

  • yokonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    428·
    2 years ago

    Uh … Yeah you got us… All a trick, darn guess our dastardly plan failed and you won’t invade Taiwan now

      • filoria@lemmy.mlOP
        2325·
        2 years ago

        With US troops?

        Ukraine has a right to defend itself, but US troops are not deployed in Ukraine.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
          171·
          2 years ago

          I’m talking about Taiwan, but Ukrainians are defending themselves with American weapons, intelligence and training.

          I believe it was released that there are 14 special force members in Ukraine as well.

        • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          174·
          2 years ago

          The Green Berets are the army’s spec ops that focus on training foreign fighters, specially chosen for things like foreign language proficiency. They’re not Rangers or general light infantry. Ideally they’re not really supposed to get into direct combat, as they’re rather time consuming and difficult to replace.

          I would bet a whole bunch of money that we actually do have Green Berets present in Ukraine as well, though the only people that would know that for sure would be the US govt, the Ukrainians and probably Russian intelligence.

          If the 101st Airborne gets deployed to Taiwan, then I’d be worried.

          • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
            76·
            2 years ago

            Green Berets are just as worrying. It means US is training locals, preparing for yet another proxy war or brutal crackdown on any real or potential opposition against place being subjugated to US empire.

      • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
        2551·
        2 years ago

        It doesn’t. The vast majority of countries recognize the PRC having sovereignty over Taiwan, as does the UN. There is no right to separatism or anything like that. Rather the PRC has the right to enforce their sovereignty. The US btw has no right to send to troops into China, that’s an act of war.

            • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
              219·
              2 years ago

              If you are talking about the President of Taiwan, are you comparing a role that’s existed since 1 January 1912 (25 October 1945 in its current form) to one that existed 18 February 1861 – 5 May 1865 and had exactly one officeholder?

              • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
                512·
                2 years ago

                They are. And they’re comparing glorious revolutionary China to the dastardly imperialist pig dogs in the US.

                Tankies are a confused bunch.

  • 🍪CRUMBGRABBER🍪@lemm.eeEnglish
    74·
    2 years ago

    XI is way too smart to push deep into the nether regions of Taiwan, especially after being briefed by Wang.

  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
    1413·
    2 years ago

    The same Xi that violates Taiwan’s airspace continuously. That increases the airspace violations whenever Taiwan does something that he doesn’t like, like democratically electing pro-independence politicians or when US politicians visit Taiwan.

    Yeah sure Xi, the only reason you threaten Taiwan’s democracy is because the US tricked you into it.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      134·
      2 years ago

      This is such a ridiculous take. Taiwan is literally historically, legally and internationally-recognized part of China. It’s literally an island that is part of China. There is no Taiwanese airspace to violate - it’s China’s airspace and has been since planes were invented.

      Further, he didn’t say the USA is trying to trick him into violating Taiwanese democracy but instead is trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, specifically by publishing stories about completing that Pacific Kill Chain by deploying specialized weapon installations on the island that could neutralize China’s military advantages via nuclear first strike capabilities. China doesn’t need to invade Taiwan for Taiwan to accept the one country two systems approach of integration which you would still consider a violation of their democracy.