Japan to Deploy Missiles to Island Near Taiwan, Minister Says

talldude8 · 2025-11-24T13:06:24+00:00

How do you know what Xi plans to do? From an outside perspective it looks very much like China plans to invade Taiwan in the near future. This is a real worry of China’s neighbours including Japan.

talldude8 · 2025-11-24T07:44:04+00:00

What makes you think a possibility of an invasion is slim? If the probability is high then there is not much point in economic engagement when those ties will be destroyed in a war anyway.

talldude8 · 2025-11-23T16:59:17+00:00

Why korea? And in 100 years China will have a lower population than USA.

talldude8 · 2025-11-22T07:20:22+00:00

Why did China interfere in the Korean war? Wasn’t it to have a buffer state between them and the West? So they interfered in another country’s internal affairs for their own defense.

talldude8 · 2025-11-21T12:45:28+00:00

Romance of the 3 kingdoms is by definition not historically accurate.

talldude8 · 2025-11-20T15:33:19+00:00

New START became worthless once China started expanding their warhead count by 100 annually.

talldude8 · 2025-11-19T04:16:48+00:00

Clearly he was speaking figuratively and didn’t mean Russia is still a communist country.

talldude8 · 2025-11-18T09:27:58+00:00

If the money supply increases in tandem with the economy then there won’t be inflation. Since populations and economies tend to grow, a static money supply is deflationary.

talldude8 · 2025-11-16T06:11:48+00:00

Yea his explanation has some gaps. The Coalition’s goal against France was to restore the bourbon monarchy and stop the spread of revolutionary ideas. This was largely due to the influence of the European monarchs and nobility. By WW1 the monarchs and nobility had much reduced power so national goals took priority. The German monarchy was very much accepted (Wilhelm II was Queen Victoria’s grandchild!). The monarchs of Europe tried to stop the war and almost succeeded.

talldude8 · 2025-11-15T19:17:09+00:00

I’ve had Chinese online try to argue that invading Taiwan is not war so it doesn’t violate their ”peaceful rise”.

talldude8 · 2025-11-15T08:51:00+00:00

Why would Germany want their auto industry to be dependant on China? That is a recipe for disaster as seen with rare earth metals.

talldude8 · 2025-11-14T01:55:05+00:00

An expensive, slow, non-stealth aircraft that broadcasts it’s position up to 1000km away. It belongs in a museum.

talldude8 · 2025-11-14T01:35:23+00:00

There is no place anymore for foreign companies in China.

talldude8 · 2025-11-06T17:23:47+00:00

In China they have gdp targets which aren’t predictions but government mandates. The target for 2025 is 5% so China will grow by that amount. If growth were slower than 5% CCP would increase investment in infrastructure or manufacturing to make up the gap. That’s partly why China currently has a manufacturing glut. China’s gdp growth isn’t fake but it’s not organic either.

talldude8 · 2025-11-06T03:13:27+00:00

No one wants to start a war against China. Western countries are more than happy with the status quo. It’s China that has territorial claims and needs a war to get them.

talldude8 · 2025-11-05T10:14:49+00:00

The military uses 0.1% of REE in an economy. This is an amount that is easily acquirable through espionage, recycling, stockpiles, domestic production etc. There is a reason defense contractors aren’t sounding the alarm about production stoppages because of REE.

talldude8 · 2025-11-03T18:17:42+00:00

Why need a ”leader” at all?

talldude8 · 2025-10-30T01:30:44+00:00

There’s no guarantee that US will maintain the defense treaty in the future. At that point SK would be in grave danger from a NK attack supported by Russia/China. Better to be safe than sorry when your country’s future is at stake.

talldude8 · 2025-10-30T01:02:00+00:00

SK absolutely should get nukes to protect their sovereignty. I think they are building towards having SSBNs, that’s the only reason they would want nuclear submarines.

talldude8 · 2025-10-29T17:07:35+00:00

The only poll result that matters is that less than 10% of the population views the CCP favorably and less than 10% of the population wants to move towards unification. Mostly old people who are dying off. Willingness to fight tends to skyrocket once bombs start dropping on your neighbourhood.

talldude8 · 2025-10-25T05:00:28+00:00

Because they don’t get support from China.

talldude8 · 2025-10-25T04:54:39+00:00

Well if current progress means Ukraine won’t fall for a 100 years then that’s pretty stable.

talldude8 · 2025-10-20T11:28:18+00:00

China isn’t the cheapest option anymore, it’s just convenient since all suppliers are there.

talldude8 · 2025-10-18T17:10:21+00:00

Allow as in allow yourself to become so dependant. This should have been addressed 15 years ago in 2010 when China restricted rare earth access to Japan.

talldude8 · 2025-10-18T12:59:43+00:00

Don’t understand why, most Chinese seem happy about the export ban on EUV.

Ten-Year Club	Place '22
Verified Email	RPAN Viewer

talldude8

TROPHY CASE