TaiwanIsNotChina comments

bass4funkToday  05:48 pm JST

Not sure what that means, can you just focus on the topic? Geez!

Feigning confusion will not get you points with a just god. And neither will pretending you know more about god than I do.

bass4funkToday  05:40 pm JST

I'm glad you believe Putin should be blown up continually for eternity.

I never mentioned Putin. I don't think so and how the heck did he get into the conversation?

Just another one of your heroes. I guess he gets a pass from Jesus somehow.

bass4funkToday  05:12 pm JST

See, and I believe in an "eye for an eye" all the way, you should suffer badly if you murder someone. I am not encouraging vigilantism, but if there is a story of someone giving a person back what they did to them, then that was their karma. it is what it is.

I'm glad you believe Putin should be blown up continually for eternity.

GuruMickToday  04:38 pm JST

Ahh Legrande...I believe Japan colonized both parts of Korea, including the south.

The North had the crap bombed out of it by the US and allies in the Korean war in the 50's.

That would be on the North's mind I guess.

And rightly so: South Korea's border was restored and the North ain't launching any invasions now.

JJEToday  03:42 pm JST

As usual the truth is the reverse:

NATO has become a decisive enabler of Washington's war effort in Ukraine since the 2014 coup and continues to pose an existential threat to Russia and to security of non-aligned countries for much longer in general.

Moscow launched a full-scale strategic counteroffensive in Feb of 2022 in defense against the world’s most aggressive racketeering cartel which had hijacked a piece of strategic real estate with the end game to menace Moscow.

Tanks were rolling in only one direction in Feb of 2022. This is clear to anyone with eyes and a brain. Still Putin's War.

The Atlanticists want China to play the little errand boy role and help them out on Ukraine. But the truth is Beijing would be the next victim of NATO because they are next in the firing line; they under the truth of the above and the weasel words coming out of the west. 

From the non-existent Pacific NATO?

Western hegemony is what is at stake here - meaning the US with the other as willing supplicants - and those Atlanticists will never allow or treat another country/continent, China, India or whoever as equals; they are determined to preserve their unipolar neo-colonialist power as the world transitions to multi-polar fairness.

Russia's not a pole. At least one that is still upright.

Kazuaki ShimazakiToday  04:02 pm JST

If NATO wants Chinese help, they can start by acknowledging what they are asking for is Help. Once they understand and accept that's what they are really asking for, they would find it easier to dream up an incentive package that might just get the Chinese to help.

The CCP will never follow international law. There is no point in asking for help from such a country.

quercetumToday  03:12 pm JST

The U.S. lost the electromagnetic warfare earlier this month and is withdrawing the missiles from Luzon.

Diplomatic maneuvers are not military defeats. If Peking blocks another resupply mission, those missiles go right back.

This is above and over your head. These are carriers and planes not decisions via diplomacy. 

The U.S.S. Connecticut hit the ocean floor (?) and is rehabilitating in the shipyards. Is this the U.S. technology? China doesn’t have to lift a finger then. This is also over your head. 

U.S. subs don’t just hit a sea mountain. You don’t think they have radars or the technology to detect what’s ahead? We’re not talking torpedoes here. You are defaming the US Navy.

Yes, you will call upon the mighty ocean floor. I suspect it will laugh at you as much as I do.

quercetumToday  02:27 pm JST

It doesn’t matter China. NATO is still at a disadvantage in Asia. China has the home advantage while the U.S. is way away from home not to mention the technology advantage. 

Thankfully missiles with enough range don't care about home field advantage and China's goal of destroying Taiwan is not easy. Chinese technology is a joke and its battlefield experience even more so.

How many missiles can the US ships bring?

They can bring the number of missiles that can be stored on Guam and Hawaii. Not much point in the big ballistics as those trigger WW3 on both sides.

The Koreans are smart and will not let another war fought on its on soil and not especially with its nuclear neighbors to the north. 

That's why they will become nuclear.

China has already sent the U.S. Connecticut back home rehabilitating and is sending the U.S. Typhoon missile system deployed back home.

Yeah, no. China did not create the ocean floor.

The U.S. lost the electromagnetic warfare earlier this month and is withdrawing the missiles from Luzon.

Diplomatic maneuvers are not military defeats. If Peking blocks another resupply mission, those missiles go right back.

deanzaZZRToday  02:16 pm JST

Help me now, I'm not a military buff, but I'm guessing Vietnam War hand-me-downs?

The FA-50 began production in 2005. Any sort of insulting of the Philippines armed forces just highlights China's barbarity for picking on them, though.

China's allies are a list of the criminals, but that makes sense for the head criminal.

Sounds like it is time to expand NATO to the Pacific.

Mr GoodmanJuly 10  07:04 pm JST

Japan court OKs gender change without confirmation surgery

It's impossible to change your gender !

End of discussion

Someone among the 8 billion people on Earth will leave you confused.

Start of discussion

The high court, meanwhile, maintained that the purpose of the clause on gender confirmation surgery, which is to prevent exposure to genitals of the opposite sex in places such as public baths, is legitimate.

So rather than a limited ruling that say, transgender people aren't allowed in public baths, they decide transgender people must get radical surgery? Checks out.

I will say I respectfully appreciate the women's beach volleyball. Oddly compelling that event.

CNN went to garbage as soon as they lost the likes of Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. Now it is 24 hour Biden commentary that anyone can do on Tik Tok.

Good. Repeat this exercise everytime China strays into Japanese waters.

It's nationalism. There should have been no flags, no anthems, and no team uniforms in the Olympics but then nobody would probably give a darn.

Will be another great success for Russia when their supposedly high tech jets fail to take out F-16s.

Get them some anti-ship missiles. Even if they are only mockups, it will put the fear in the Chinese pirate.

dbsaiyaToday  06:35 am JST

You make peace by talking to your enemies, not your friends. Desmond Tutu.

Russia and China can make peace with a Japan in NATO.

RichardPearceToday  03:19 am JST

Taipei, the Azovian regime is ATTACKING Free Ukraine (just as a similar regime was attacking the Free French last century), and has been since 2013.

Free Ukraine is the part not under occupation by Fascist Russia.

The only thing that changed a couple of years ago was that the Free Ukrainians got assistance from the country that did the most to win WW2.

Well they did get assistance from the US, you are right.

ZaphodToday  02:42 am JST

six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine

Norway, Denmark, and Holland... acting as convenient puppets for their US masters. If the US government is so determined to get WW3, why do they not fly their own jets in there?

Because Europe should take the lead on its own security. A puppet is what Belarus is, for example.

The Zelenski government that has suspended elections, outlawed opposition parties, jailed opposition politicians and killed journalists (remember Gonzalo Lira?) represents freedom? In that case I am wonder how you define oppression.

The government that is under heinous assault by Russia, yes. Once Russia is out of the picture, democracy can be restored in Ukraine with no problem.

ZaphodToday  02:57 am JST

Japan must strengthen NATO ties to safeguard global peace,

That is so misguided, I am speechless. NATO (remember, the NA stands for North Atlantic, not Pacific) was the counterpart to the Warsaw Pact and should have been dissolved together with that when Soviet Union was dismantled, as so many people in my generation fully expected.

Russia is clearly a threat. Shape changing to a different name changes nothing.

Instead, NATO has turned into a vehicle for US military adventures in Serbia, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya etc etc. And Kishida wants to join THAT?

NATO wasn't involved in Iraq or Syria. Libya was with UN mandate and Afghanistan was a legal war against terrorism. The war we are currently on is Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Hopefully they can draw attention to Russia's disgrace by their own excellence.

Good to see allies stepping up to defend Free Ukraine!!!

If China is upset, you know you are on the right path.

JJEToday 05:40 pm JST

What is left over of Ukraine will never be allowed to join NATO. Moscow won't allow it.

Thankfully Moscow can't afford to have a say, but they will pretend like they did something.

JJEToday 05:29 pm JST

Always keep in mind that Taiwan lacks UN recognition as an independent, sovereign state.

We had two Taiwan stories today so we need two reminders that this matters f all for de facto independence and de facto independence matters more than de jure independence.

Less countries of earth even recognize them with official diplomatic relations than the breakaway regions Russia is accused of propping up.

Important to recognize that this only comes about through China demands and has zero legal or moral rationale.

China's position of reunification is fully consistent with international law.

So is Taiwan's position of independence.

Not to mention the positions of certain quarters who advocate particular lands elsewhere should be reunited with force.

Don't do illegal annexations and you don't have to worry about countries defending their legal territory.

Kazuaki ShimazakiToday 05:28 pm JST

Thus, the PRC's legal claim may be better than what people give it credit for.

All you have to do is look at a map to see the ridiculousness of China's claim. You don't get to make territorial sea out of nothing, either.

JJEToday 05:04 pm JST

Being confined to a rusty, asbestos ridden hulk that is illegally grounded is a virtual death sentence. Kudos for facilitating the rescue of this victim.

Nothing illegal about putting an outpost in an area frequented by Chinese pirates. The Philippines doesn't obstruct anyone's navigation through the area that is behaving lawfully.

Important to observe Taiwan also claims the Second Thomas Shoal and their overall claim in the SCS matches Beijing's. Vietnam also claims it too.

Certain quarters frequently conveniently ignore this fact.

Important to observe that this fact is irrelevant and the problem remains China's Warmongering.