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The Economist @economist.com

Taiwanese confidence that America will come help it if China invades is growing weaker by the day. That is reshaping the plans that the island’s sitting government must make for its defence

jun 11, 2025, 11:16 am • 37 9

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jdt3237 @jdt3237.bsky.social

There's only 1 way the Taiwanese could have assured their independence from mainland China - through deployment of a nuclear deterrent. The US has spent the years since WW2 discouraging just such an eventuality offering an American defensive umbrella instead. Too late now - their fate is sealed.

jun 11, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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W. Philip Insey @w-philip-insey.bsky.social

That's why nuke no proliferation doesn't work without a stable guarantor...look at Ukraine...and soon Taiwan

jun 11, 2025, 11:37 am • 2 0 • view
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Linc50 @linc50.bsky.social

Nukes. That’s it.

jun 11, 2025, 11:23 am • 1 0 • view