Prove it.

You just made a falsifiable statement.

Don't just spread tankie shit. Prove it.

Parent comment is also wrong, and as usual things are much more complicated than made out to be. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/... plus China essentially pressuring Taiwan into adhering to the status quo so as to not lose its casus belli.

From the article itself:

The exercises began 11 days after the U.S. announced $11.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan

How is China the aggressor here? Imagine if Cuba suddenly imported $11bn in weapons from Russia, do you think that would warrant no reaction from the US administration?

"No, you see, my side is the good one and the defensive one in the upcoming war"

-Every nation in every single war in history

Oh, so you support North Korea's military expenditure to protect itself from the USA? Should Cuba buy $11bn in military armament to defend itself from tyrant USA? You also rightfully support Hamas in its defense against Israel?

Yeah, Estonia are 'The Good White Guys™' whereas China are 'Le Evil Asiatic Empire'

That's not whataboutism at all, that's extrapolating the logic of a claim to another case in order to test it.

They can’t do that because NATO imperialists are forcing their hand. Obviously.

Political parties don't control territory. Nation states do. The island of Taiwan is a province of the nation state of China - it was ceded to the Japanese imperialist who invaded China and took Taiwan from China making it part of Japan (not part of a specific party in Japan) and then the nation state of China, collaboratively amongst its political factions, liberated the island and restored it as territory of the nation state of China.

This talking point about the CPC never owning it is a category error and you would never imagine making such claims about Labor or Conservatives owning this or that part of England, or Texas being the rightful property of Republicans or New York being the rightful property of Democrats. This use of language is double speak.

As for defending against US aggression being whataboutism, that's not even close to being n accurate use of the phrase. For example, when Russia stationed nuclear weapons in Cuba, the US threatened total nuclear annihilation because it was threatened by what was a consensual agreement between two independent nations. The US making it very clear that they were going to bring their military might to Asia, while expanding their drone war and demolishing a half dozen countries is a far greater threat than the USSR ever was to the USA, but for some reason you bootlickers want to pretend that the US moving 2/3rds of their naval assets to the Pacific theater and constantly writing strategic assessments about whether the US could win a nuclear war if it encircled its opponents with sufficient offensive and defensive capabilities. The US's interest in Taiwan is nothing more than as an unsinkable aircraft carrier that produces computer chips (which, btw it has been trying desperately to bring into the US so that it can use Taiwan exclusively as a war zone).

Whataboutism would be saying that China is allowed to kill 500K Taiwanese children because the US killed 500K Iraqi children. Realpolitik is recognizing that China has a requirement to be hyper vigilant regarding everything on its coastline and nearby waterways and islands because the US and UK have been abundantly clear that they are not happy that China has recovered from the Opium War and the subjugation that followed and that the imperialists have no problem with killing people anywhere in the world if it means advancing the interests of their ruling class.

During the Chinese civil war, the PLA defeated the KMT and the KMT fled to the island province of Taiwan, a part of the nation state of China.

The US and British navies protected the KMT during their retreat and afterward, essentially creating a protectorate out of the island while the KMT prosecuted the fascist White Terror, with mass killings and political repression for the next 40 years, only adopting a liberal democratic formation once the Brits established a similar one in Hong Kong, which was another imperialist holding stripped away from China.

That you don't know this about the history of the island you claim as your cause is unsurprising

LOL - as though it's not believable to think that a country that hasn't dropped a single bomb in 35 years might be concerned about the most violent nation in the world continuing to destroy country after country announcing "the pivot to Asia" in 2008 as they expanded drone warfare beyond anything the world had ever seen as we watched video after video of double tap strikes, bombings if weddings, funerals, hospitals, and schools and now we watch as that bully double taps fisherman in the Caribbean. To say that the US is not an existential threat to literally every country in the world is to allow your entire worldview to be shaped by centuries-old Yellow Peril propaganda

Do you think they'd prefer getting fucked by capitalism like the former SSRs were in the 90s, or autonomy within China, like they have now?

That was a regular occurrence before, it hasn't since.

Regular as in recurring.

Isn't that a problem everywhere at the moment?

Sounds grim, thanks.

I guess I just see shit like them building a factory in a week and assume they are doing well but it's probably propaganda.

I hope they don't engage in a war. China can bomb all Taiwan and destroy everything and lose on the process a lot of people and resources. If China is not a fool, and I don't think it is, the best path is to wait (and maybe push) for a second civil war in the US to have the upper hand in a possible reunification talk. And this drills would be just showing muscle before sitting to talk with Taiwan.

AFAIK they don't have that many of the newer ASMs, and anyway a thousand isn't really that many, especially given that Taiwan's missiles are on the smaller end of the spectrum - we're not talking KH-22 sizes here.

10 cent army? I want to see Taiwan armed to the teeth. They can't solo the CCP in their current state.

No, but they can build faster than Taiwan. And I'm sure they have some CIWS that will reduce the number of missiles that hit, so it's a pure numbers game.

I wonder why the word blockade is not in quotes. Perhaps it's editorializing from the author and not something the PLA actually said

Yeah, that's a thing to consider. It's funny how the world has changed. Europe used to be the baddies, now it's mostly Russia and China.

You're moving the blame from bad governance to the system itself being completely faulty/bad. Do you think poorly governed socialistic country would be more successful?

Madagascar got the same kind of attention from Europe during the colonial era. As a result the people there speak French, and Americans absolutely can’t deal with that.

It's from a constitution written by a warmonger that called himself Generalissimo, in 1947, and imposed the longest (at the time) martial law. Since Taiwan's democratisation, any move to change even minor parts of the constitution are seen by China as reason for military intervention. The only way the PRC has claim to Taiwan is through a "succession of states", and that's why preventing Taiwan from rewriting a constitution written by a coloniser (the Republic of China) is important to them

If I state a nation claims territories, I tend to prioritise first hand sources from the nation in question, rather than second-hand, crowdsourced statements. After a quick translation:

The Republic of China was established in 1912, becoming Asia's first democratic republic. On December 7, 1949, the government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan, administering the main island of Taiwan and its affiliated islands, the Penghu Islands, the Kinmen Islands, the Matsu Islands, the Dongsha Islands, the Zhongsha Islands, and the Nansha Islands. The total area under its effective jurisdiction is 36,197.3371 square kilometers.

Sure, buddy... And Russia is also just defending themselves from NATO by invading Ukraine.

Even Xi said, he wants to rule Taiwan, if necessary, with military force, so please quit the bullshit... Thanks.

Oh, so like when the USA does the same to Venezuela and Cuba it's just self defense like Trump says?

To cut off the island from outside support in a conflict with...who?

So they should get to annex one little country, as a treat? Lol

(Also depending how you define military action, thats false. They keep having border scuffles with India for starters.)