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reddebian t1_je5cgck wrote

Nawww, is someone butthurt? Anyway, here's a relevant Wikipedia article and I'm sure this statement applies to this as well: China’s final warning

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s0ulmates t1_je5jqhy wrote

> More than 900 Chinese "final warnings" had been issued by the end of 1964.

Lmao

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One_User134 t1_je5z725 wrote

I disagree, they’re going to launch military drills around Taiwan, effectively throwing a fit like they did last time. I’m not saying they’ll attack though, but they’ve already did this in August last year. That’s one reason the US/allies is taking China even more seriously.

To be clear, these drills are dangerous. It takes just one idiot to make a mistake and send a missile to a military asset of either the US or Taiwan, or worse yet, something of civilian nature.

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[deleted] t1_jegdrdy wrote

Yes, I can't believe that drill happened and we did nothing about it, also the world did nothing about it. That drill was basically blockading Taiwan!

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warenb t1_je6fia3 wrote

At this point it just has to be the classic bad translation from Chinese to English. I mean when have you not seen a classic poor Chinese English translation written on anything, like assembly instructions

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[deleted] t1_je5il8b wrote

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ContagiousOwl t1_je6uxm9 wrote

Assuming this is a sincere question:

Geopolitical claims gain/lose legitimacy if they're not refuted. In this case, China's crossing of the Median Line (established in 1955) is to challenge its legitimacy and assert the strait is their waters. If no one challenges that by sailing through the international waters between China & Taiwan then, in the future, they can assert "We did X back in Y and nobody complained then".

America responds to China's patrols with their own patrols on the Taiwan side of the line so such a claim can't be made without refutation.

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