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Originally Posted by Taihang
If you have something to say just say it. They didn't do it for love of CCPs but for American strategic interests. Maybe Tiger can give you a professional opinion about it.
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OoE said it. US ditched Taiwan to form an alliance with China to tie down some Soviet forces. It's not that US really liked CCP and hated Taiwan. It had everything to do with the big picture. That being the former USSR was a much bigger threat and must be contained at all cost.
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Originally Posted by Taihang
If you believe China has an ambition of military expansion you may have a point. But I see they are just eager to get rich. Chinese blue water navy would take 20 more years to develop and even then would not be a match to US navy power. So I say US navy does not depend on any island help to choke PLAN.
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Maybe not now, but why waste our resources to choke China when we can use someone else's help?
China has world power ambitions, and not just military. PLAN won't be a match for the USN in 20, or even 30 years. But China has long range plans. They'll work on 50 year plans to catch up.
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Originally Posted by Taihang
On the other hand China would not need a blue water navy to deal regional conflicts with her neighbors.
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Maybe not. But a bluewater navy is needed to become a world power. Regional power is not what China is going after.
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Originally Posted by Taihang
I don't think it was meant to be a strategic partnership. Does anyone believe so? It's a sweater from US Congress to make up to the bitter ROC after Nixon administration kicked her aside.
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It was a strategic partnership. This way we get to use China to threaten USSR while using Taiwan to stifle China. All we had to do was keep selling enough weapons to make Taiwan a credible threat to Chinese expansion.