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Would it be appropriate for US ships to ram Chinese ships in Chinese waters?
There are no threats to Chinese territorial waters; this is happening in Philippine territory.
Then you surely agree there are no threats to Taiwan by China?
If you can't understand how the numerous Chinese military exercises like this are a specific threat to Taiwan, then I'm not sure you're capable of reason
Please provide similar evidence of threats to Chinese territory (besides the soviet union stealing their land).
Surely not a threat to China at all!!
If you think these two things are even remotely the same, you're not thinking critically at all.
You're right, they're not comparable, China hasn't engaged in military action for the past 50 years whereas the US hasn't stopped being at war in that same period of time and has just some weeks ago started bombing another sovereign country from its surrounding military bases
Stay on topic - China is literally surrounding Taiwan with multiple military exercises, making threatening comments, intentionally ramming ships with their 'coast guard' in other another country's territory, making imperialistic claims to territory that doesn't belong to them in the south china sea; they are an imperialistic aggressor and these actions should be called out just like the inexcusable US actions should be called out. Neither is acceptable and I absolutely call out the US too. I'm not even anti-communist; I'm anti-imperialist and authoritarian. Something that unfortunately you tankies put together in one package and are unwilling to critically think about.
Btw, China has absolutely engaged in military action in the past 50 years and you need to educate yourself.
Ok ok, all nations are equally bad in your head because China could hypothetically do something (this propaganda has been going on for 20 years). Everything is possible when you make shit up!
What are you even talking about now? This is just nonsense.
You just won't accept that US military bases (which are being used TODAY to bomb sovereign nations) are by orders of magnitude a bigger threat to China than whatever patrolling China is doing around Taiwan
Would it be an escalation if the held war games directly on the chinese coast while making demands they submit their country to the US?
Taiwan literally does this lmao
This is the official territorial claim of the Republic of China (Taiwan), they literally claim that mainland China belongs to them (together with the entirety of Mongolia and several chunks from other countries). Taiwan is literally TODAY carrying out military drills in coordination with the US
I am familiar with the history of the ROC, but let's be real - Taiwan has existed as an independent nation for a long time now and those land claims are bogus.
Those military drills are also literally in Taiwan to help prepare for a chinese invasion of their land. What a weird thing to compare to what China is doing.
"No, you see, when it's an imperialist nation claiming Mongolia's entire country as its territory with US military bases it doesn't count, it only counts when it's a communist country without a recent history of militarism"
"No, it's not militarism, it's called 'Ministry of Defense!!!'"