Self-Induced Death: US urges UK to 'step up' efforts to defend Taiwan amid growing threat of Chinese invasion

[loyola llothta]

US urges UK to 'step up' efforts to defend Taiwan amid growing threat of Chinese invasion​

The calls to help boost Taiwan's deterrence capabilities come as Congress moves to speed up US arms sales to the democratic island

Britain has been urged to help provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself against a Chinese invasion as the United States Congress makes moves to speed up its own weapons sales to Taipei

Link:US urges UK to 'step up' efforts to defend Taiwan amid growing threat of Chinese invasion

 

[Dave24]

Bump

 

[ORDER_66]

uk not doing shyt it seems

 

[loyola llothta]

@Bonk

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

The UK never signed a pact with Taiwan

 

[CopiousX]

strategically speaking, its probably not a good idea for the global leader in microchips to be under chinese control. So the case for western intervention is a good one. Covid already showed us how overly concentrated the semiconductor industry is in Taipei.


However, I'd favor simply moving economic interests outside of Taiwan instead of this cold war nonsense that they trying to start. Similar to what Portugal did with Macau or UK did during covid for hongkong.


Im annoyed with how global powers are hellbent on recreating the 1970s. Inflation, stupid cold/proxy wars, oil crisises, south asian sourced drug crisis, etc.

 

[Bonk]

@Bonk

This is laughable because the U.K. currently doesn’t have more than 60k active troops (that’s me being generous, it’s probably lower than that). And a lot of combatants have been moved to reserve.

So for the U.K. to be able to field anything to help Taiwan, there would have to be mobilisation.

However, with the on-going war in Europe and how deeply involved the U.K. is in Ukraine - who’s going to supply the troops needed if Putin ever decides to escalate by invading the Balkans once the Chinese open another front in Taiwan? Bear in mind that Russia is currently only fighting in Ukraine with just 10-15% of its active troops and it’s yet to do any mobilisation (I think Russia has about 1million active troops and 2million in reserve). China on the other hand has millions of active troops.

European countries (including the U.K.) aren’t currently strong militarily. They’re all just living off past glory and US military might.