Originally Posted by
etudiant
Taiwan has to get nuclear weapons asap, else they are toast. They can justify it by highlighting their concern about the unregulated nuclear program in North Korea.
Obviously Ho Chi Min would have recommended a more people centric solution and set up a national compulsory military service, expecting the mainland invasion force to have to overcome 25mm armed Taiwanese.
Are you referring to
Chiang KaiShek?
Ho didn't need to concern himself with defending Taiwan. He was busy defending Viet Nam, wasn't he?
Originally Posted by
etudiant
Unfortunately, the CCP success in dealing with other potentially fractious elements suggests that this strategy is obsolete. China has shown that it is possible to imprison millions of Uighurs, based on that precedent dealing with Taiwan as a hotbed of reactionaries would be duck soup
Taiwan choosing to go nuclear: now there's an interesting way to stir the pot. Do you think they'll take that step, or are you just tossing pasta against the wall to see how much of it sticks?