Yeah, the good old term Clanker isn't cutting it anymore. We're now homing in on the even more evil dimension to it. Coincidentally, also gets rid of some of my worries with the investment bubble. I mean nothing is too expensive once we're aiming for a fascist dictatorship?

• A capitalist

I'd trust a "communist dictator" that's executed 16 billionaires and counting more than any billionaire any day.

They make themselves apparent pretty well even without that

Yeah this is an obvious: "Sure buddy, call it super intelligence. 🙄"

If I could translate this from communism with Chinese characteristics to English: attaching importance roughly corresponds to lol.

If you translate it from any language - including English - I think you'll find it means "Whatever you say Grandpa".

1000%

He doesn't need to do that. All he has to do is wait for the US to exhaust its ammunition stockpiles in Iran.

If I know anything about China; I know they take military action as a last resort. Say what you will of China, but they don't have a massive oligarch class that is waiting for the next war to profit from.

All they do is "trade max" into everything. There is LESS of a reason for China to look towards military action towards to Taiwan right now. If they were going to do that then there was no better time than literally the last several months with the US stuck in Iran.

I can only see them pushing to military action if the US did something extremely aggressive directly towards them.

The US is falling the fuck off. No one wants to be a US ally right now. Canadians fucking hate the US right now. China knows all it has to do is wait until the US inevitably pisses off Taiwan with its own selfish interests. And a natural normalization between them will occur. China is betting on Taiwanese citizens seeing as being "a part of China" again as more beneficial than not. Whatever "a part of China" ends up meaning.

When western economies fail as their dependence on the US sucks them dry... Taiwan will look at China as a better option if it remains as resistant as it has.

That man really playing the long game. They don't even have to fire a single shot just to take Taiwan.

Yeah, this is now the China that can afford to say no.

*...take BACK Taiwan.