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brick316 t1_jaaacjc wrote

Not the 1st time!

He's know himself (like most other dictators) to award himself.

Fun Fact: His dad used to be anti Russia, fought a war of independence... until he changed sides (huge bribes). Son became head of 'Chechnya' and killed his own people.

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Wired_143 t1_jaaa99h wrote

In my non-expert opinion. China is most likely watching Russia, with a more combat proven military. Not do very well, in their invasion attempt. They are not too anxious to attempt their own invasion. Their troops are not combat veterans (at least I don’t think so) and would most likely not perform very well.

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cowvin t1_jaa8nxl wrote

Sure, there are similarities between many groups of people in terms of appearance, culture, language, etc. However, here are some interesting facts about Taiwan:

Taiwan has its own language, Taiwanese, that is slowly being pushed out by Chinese. Additionally, Taiwanese people who read and write Chinese use traditional Chinese characters rather than the simplified Chinese characters (introduced by the Communists).

Taiwan is the global leader in manufacturing computer chips because their manufacturing processes are years ahead of anyone else (for more info, look up TSMC).

Taiwan is a very modern democracy and they deserve to be recognized as an independent country.

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qj-_-tp t1_jaa73cr wrote

I call trolling. The other party is more correct than you are, though each raised valid points. Trolls lose by forfeit immediately after being outed. Therefore, you lose. And don’t think you can sucker me with more trolling; whether you have good points to make or not, troll == loss. I’m done with you; your loss.

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jlcatch22 t1_jaa5kiu wrote

I saw two cyclists on the road recently, and had they been riding one behind the other they could have easily just occupied the side of the road, not impeding traffic. But no, in true dickhead cyclists fashion, they had to ride side by side, so that one of them was in the lane and cars had to wait for the opposing lane to clear to get around them.

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RyokoKnight t1_jaa56nr wrote

As long as the US is a naval/aireal world power, and as long as the US is involved in the region. China cannot take Taiwan.

They don't have the navy or airforce numbers or quality to perform a sustainable landing operation while facing a naval/aireal threat from other countries.

A regional power like Japan's navy alone, if they got involved, might be enough to counter China's invasion simply by threatening troop convoys and supply convoys throughout the invasion attempt... and obviously if the US is involved basically every Chinese ship above water would be sunk in a matter of a week or two.

It also realistically isn't worth it, even in a world China had the navy and airforce to conquer Taiwan they'd lose hundreds of thousands if not a full million men in the attempt. All for a Tiny island they'd have to level with bombs and make more or less worthless just to obtain. Losing that much of your army/population all for an island just isn't logical.

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SpaceDoctorWOBorders t1_jaa4bbh wrote

You still do all those things though when traveling to work to share a cube, you're just adding extra risk. Where are you getting your info about shared cubicles not being health risks. Just because it's 10,000x less dangerous then eating out of a toilet bowl doesn't mean there isn't any risk.

I've never seen someone defend having a shared working space so hard.

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