RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

The Japanese owned the South China Sea before WW2 true the US dropped the bomb but poor old Chiang Kai-shek lost out again and again after defeating Japan after 8 years of war only to get the push by Mao Zedong.


Nixon saw the error and scrubbed Taiwan to be a province of Mainland China.

Trump wants to change all that back to pre-Nixon days, or will it go like North Korea and the US takes a wait and see attitude in the mean time why would China comply?.

What should the US do?.

I'm going on the OPP record as a wait and see, maybe for ever.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Not much of an incident... Although I'm sure it will be spun by certain elements of the media...

I agree with the Taiwan-Mainland separation being an error...

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

Your on the OPP record as I have reported it and is now written in the Eternal Book kept in Heaven.

My take is the incident was a new Chinese red line, the old boastful US challenge to China's claim to the 9 dash line will either wither at least until after November, or the US will double up and face China down.

I'm in the Eternal Book as that, see who else wants to be written up.

True Taiwan was occupied by the Japanese from 1895 to 1945 the Chinese see that as a part of the Opium Wars so what is your take on the 100 years of humiliation, in a way Chiang Kai-shek was repaid for his valiant struggle against the Japanese WW2 where 20 million Chinese were k**led many buried alive but I'm not Chinese.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Thought Japan took possession of Taiwan in 1885? Or was it not formally recognized until 95? Chiang did his part... But let his guard down in the end, and forgot that true power resides within the populace...

The hundred years started much earlier and demonstrates the danger of having an isolationist policy on the world stage....

The Qing will forever be remembered as the last Dynasty and an abject failure...

China has been upping its presence in what it considers its territorial waters for some time now... But never waste an opportunity...

As an Australian, how do you feel about monster Geng's strongly worded statements directed at Australia concerning the perils of losing the good opinion of Chinese consumers and tourists?

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

Your right 1895, and Chiang put too much trust in the West, but I don't think he could have held the country together with so many commitments to Colonialists, fortunately for China Mao Zedong was in lock step with Stalin, now Stalin was not the same Stalin after the war as before, neither was the Colonialists, Stalin had become paranoid and the Colonialists had become US economic imperialists, fear is better than greed, and China became one country.

True power is derived from treachery.

But Chiang was the natural successor to the Republican Sun Yat-sen, Divinity intervened obviously, however things change even in that arena of superlative Court of Decision, I could explain why but time is short on OPP because concentration spans are likewise not extensive.

The Chinese say the origin of the 9 dash line comes from ancient maps when China was the Greatest Sea Power.

You mean the call by the i***t Morrison for an inquiry into the origin of C****-** backing up Pompeo, I think Morrison has distanced himself from Trump's claim that the v***s was laboratory made, I think there is proof that it wasn't because of its genetic makeup is so precise it could only have been an act of nature, but China will dump Aussie goods and services, what's wrong with that if it's the only way to get rid of the Liberal Country party coalition for ever, cheap any price.