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    [–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    China has taken over Tibet before and despite some kvetching by Liberals, the world has basically accepted it.

    The same is true about those Muslim Uyghurs. The West bitched, but they still attended the Beijing Olympics last week.

    If China invades Taiwan tomorrow, we'll see blue checkmarks on twitter call for a new hashtag, but none of them will actually enlist and go die for Taiwan.

    [–]negrogreBeing black is anti-white 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    Doesn't China invading Taiwan have a far larger effect, especially concerning Japan and the Philippines?

    [–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    China has already threatened Japan with nukes if they got involved.

    https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/china-threatens-to-nuke-japan-if-country-intervenes-in-taiwan-conflict/news-story/d9af14dc6b90628082e79ab4c77629e1

    In which case, most Japanese aren't going to risk frying themselves for a foreign nation.

    Japan has already the capacity to build their own nukes however, so they don't have anything to worry about.

    [–]negrogreBeing black is anti-white 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Being able to build nukes is not the same thing as having nukes at the ready.

    They probably wouldn't risk it for the sake of helping out Taiwan, but they may risk it if it interferes with their own livelihood.