I know for a fact this isn’t true, but I’m watching dimension 20 and maybe I just need a story to distract myself from reality.

But what if trump is actually playing 5D chess, and it’s trying to fuck up the eastern bloc? I know, I know, it’s giving him infinitely more credit than he deserves. Iran has probably the largest Navy outside of the G8. So Xi goes after Taiwan with us busy. China loses global standing like Russia and Us. China has most the chip manufacturing, but that doesn’t stop sanctions from hurting cause it’s all going to AI right now anyways. China has been tripling down on AI to the determent of their green energy component manufacturing. Europe rallies behind Ukraine as the US is bogged down with desert guerilla warfare (you’d think the dumb fucks in charge would’ve learned by now!). All three economies collapse, and like a mortal Russo’s basilisk, trump gives the middle finger live on air from his short hospice start as he takes his final breathe and says “fuck you 60% that didn’t vote for me.”

Frankly, with how much I’ve seen people predict China’s imminent invasion of Taiwan over the last… decade or so… I kind think we want them to do it more than they do.
Well it’s not so much people predicting but the CCP stating it themselves. They aren’t very secretive about it.
Stating they’re gonna invade or stating their claim its their province? Unless something has changed recently, Taiwan documents (ID, drivers license and such) are valid and accepted in CCP’s China. I don’t really see why they would invade, considering all the military buildup the US has done in anticipation of it.
It seems for the most part that China is happy to control Taiwan politically rather than military. I think this is the missing piece most people don’t understand.