Hong Kong Protesters Keep Up the Pressure

Re:Hong Kong Protesters Keep Up the Pressure by csomar on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:53PM (#20246917)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Taiwan_Defense_C...

Taiwan existed because of the US. Basically, the other side of the civil war got defeated and come hiding in Taiwan behind US military. Otherwise, it'd have been invaded by China since.

It seems currently that there is no official military presence. However, there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Assurances

I think it's enough to deter China from attacking Taiwan.

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Re:Hong Kong Protesters Keep Up the Pressure by seanmcdirmid on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:46PM (#20247732)

Taiwan exists because Mao decided to spend all his international capital on a Korean invasion rather than a Taiwan one, making the USA care about Taiwan again.

In an alternate dimension where Mao held back, we would have had a unified Korea and China, strange.

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Re:Hong Kong Protesters Keep Up the Pressure by lsc36 on Friday June 21, 2019 @09:53PM (#20247552)

This was only active until 1979; the US currently has no military presence in Taiwan.

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