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Xi Jinping vows to reunify China and Taiwan in New Year’s Eve speech (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

2027 was predicted for the Taiwan invasion 10 years ago. Looks like it was on the money

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Where was that predicated?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    US Admiral Davidson in 2021

    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2024/05/07/how-dc-became-obsessed-with-a-potential-2027-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidson_window

    A number of defence & geo political papers in the years leading up to that contributed to that testimony to congress.

    China friendly SCMP suggesting 2030 (in 2018)

    https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2174705/why-china-will-wait-until-2030-take-back

    There's defence industry papers on it but searching on the phone is too hard, if I remember i'll have a dig from the PC when I get home

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    • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    The world absolutely needed more violence and bullshit, yeah. Thanks xi.

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    what are they waiting for, they have bee saying this for decades. its more clear that he just using that as news for internal consumption.

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