US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross Straits Invasion

Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by magicsmoke on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:06AM (#26382987)

They're going to be sucking their oil through a straw. Pipelines don't have nearly the same capacity as tankers.

But they are pushing their economy towards renewables, and by the 2040s the majority of China might be powered by alternatives to oil, leaving them enough to keep their military going without disrupting manufacturing.

Pipelines also have the added bonus that if the US tries to sabotage them, they've just attacked a bunch of neutral countries. Not a good look.

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Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by seer on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:35AM (#26383450)

As someone from Bulgaria I still remember how the Yugoslavian war played out. NATO doesn’t seem to have any qualms in abusing weaker independent nations if their military interests require it.

Granted they just used Bulgaria’s airspace but the feeling was “we don’t give a F*ck what you think, deal with it”. Bulgaria is now _in_ NATO itself, but it wasn’t back then. There was a strong pro Russian (anti Nato) sentiment and I think that war in particular showed a lot of people what a precarious geopolitical position that actually was.

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