The way I see it, China wants to do Business, and the people of Taiwan are rich and they are smart at Business. Hong Kong is also smart, and they are doing Business. The Chinese want peace, and they want to do Business.
Salute,
Tony V.
If Chinese want peace they're going about it the wrong way.
They seem to have decided that the South China sea belongs to them, and that Taiwan and everything in it, belongs to them.
Saw in depth interviews with Taiwanese politicians and military leaders in the Sky News Are We Ready For War doco recently.
WW2, Churchill said:
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender".
Taiwan is basically saying the same thing.
Stockpiling missiles, arms and ammunition, fuel, food etc.
They intend for fight to the death rather than surrender to communist China.
Taiwan alone will surely lose to China,
Taiwanese politician said "Australia could be next".
Xi closely resembles "Hitler"?
China's goose-stepping troops resemble those of Nazi Germany?
With Nazi Germany there was no warning.
With China today there is plenty of warning that war is coming.
My Right politicians and other experts are saying that China will invade Taiwan then invade Australia...sooner rather than later.
Why does China want Taiwan?
Computer chips...world's largest chip manufacturer...on which the US is heavily dependent.
Why does China want Australia?
. Tens of thousands of working, great farms...usually a few thousand acres each, growing crops, raising sheep and cattle.
. In 2021 Australia supplied half the world's lithium.
. Australia is one of the world's leading producers of bauxite (aluminium ore), iron ore, lithium, gold, lead, diamond, rare earth elements, uranium, and zinc.
Also has large mineral sand deposits of ilmenite, zircon, and rutile.