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Re:Pentagon to Retire USS Truman Early, Shrinking Carrier Fl... by khuey on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:43PM (#19267227)
The flip side of "in the end, you care more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei" that always gets ignored is that China also cares more about Shanghai/Beijing/etc than they do Taipei.
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Re:Pentagon to Retire USS Truman Early, Shrinking Carrier Fl... by philwelch on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:08PM (#19267402)
Only marginally. Taipei is, to the CPC, part of China, just like Shanghai and Beijing.
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Re:Pentagon to Retire USS Truman Early, Shrinking Carrier Fl... by ardy42 on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:33PM (#19268962)
> Only marginally. Taipei is, to the CPC, part of China, just like Shanghai and Beijing.

But it is a "part of China" that they've already effectively lost. Gaining it at the cost of Shanghai doesn't seem like a very good bargain.

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