Taiwan’s defence ministry has warned that the People’s Liberation Army is stepping up its preparations for a blockade of the island, adding that it is sharpening its plans to break such a cordon in response. The assessment was made in the ministry’s “2026 China Military Power Report”, which was submitted to the legislature this week along with its five-year force development plan and next year’s proposed defence budget. The report said recent PLA exercises were increasingly focused on the “joint…


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  • kibblebits@quokk.au
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    5 hours ago

    Hey ML, ya ready to copy and paste messages about how this is a good thing despite Taiwan telling them to fuck off?

    “It’s not invading another country when there is fake communism involved”

    • whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      3 hours ago

      You know outside of the West (less than 13% of the worlds population btw) support for Taiwan is basically crickets. For some irrational reason the western ego is tied to Taiwans independence but when China finally reunifies under the banner of the PRC other than westoids the world will shrug and continue doing business with the plaent’s largest and most advanced economy. It’ll be a devastating blow to westoids but almost no one else will care

      In a lot of ways it’s kind of like how nobody gives a fuck whether you think China is actually communist or not. You say it’s fake communism, everyone else who hears you thinks that you’re smoking straight copium