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Can’t believe he figured it out. What a shame. Guess we’ll have to go provoke another country to invade our fellow flourishing independent democracies, who play a key role in the world’s trade.
Seriously though, I hope he’s just giving himself an easy out here. There’s always too much war going on.
I thought Taiwan was China? Hard to invade yourself, eh, Xi?
To be honest, it's almost certainly reworded or poorly translated from whatever he originally said.
Assuming this conversation even happened.
They sure are a contentious bunch.
Why are you defending the rump state of a fascist dictatorship?
I hope the "Republic of China" can someday be peacefully dissolved and the province of Taipei reunited under the mainland government.
Ugh, of course it was Blackburn
lifetime bitch
‘Renegade breakaway province’
Uh ... Yeah you got us... All a trick, darn guess our dastardly plan failed and you won't invade Taiwan now
First link: Members of A Company, so you're looking at 100 people maximum and likely less. Not exactly a large fighting force.
Second link: There's nothing "quiet" about it. It's been blaring on Western News non-stop for about 6 years now. The US has been completely open about weapons sales and training schedules.
Third link: We gave President Tsai Ing-Wen a medal. Okay, and?
The NED is notorious for basically being a CIA cut-out
It’s amazing that this gets any downvotes at all.
Washington Post 1991: Innocence Abroad: the New World of Spyless Coups
"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA," agrees [NED cofounder Allen] Weinstein.
New York Times, 1997: Political Meddling by Outsiders: Not New for U.S.
The National Endowment for Democracy, created 15 years ago to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades, spends $30 million a year to support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries, including China.
Not exactly a large fighting force
they're not there to hold down a trench
not a fighting force
Genuine question, I know tone is hard to read online but I promise I'm not trying to be snarky: do you know the role that special forces in general and green berets in particular play in US proxy wars? They don't fight, they raise and train local militias how to do insurgency and kill political enemies. Anytime green berets are in a country next door to an enemy of the US empire, it's because they're training the next ARVN, Taliban or Azov Battalion.
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The fuck???
He's a slippery one
Carrying on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping 
The same Xi that violates Taiwan's airspace continuously. That increases the airspace violations whenever Taiwan does something that he doesn't like, like democratically electing pro-independence politicians or when US politicians visit Taiwan.
Yeah sure Xi, the only reason you threaten Taiwan's democracy is because the US tricked you into it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has accused the US of trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, but he said it won't take the bait, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
According to the FT, Xi made the accusation during a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in April last year.
Xi has issued the same warning to officials in his own country, one source told the FT, but this would be the first time he made the claim to a foreign leader, the outlet said.
But the mood in Washington, DC, seems to be shifting, with Congress showing itself more "overtly supportive of Taiwan than only a few years ago," Graeme Thomson, an analyst with the Eurasia Group, told BI in November.
Last month, a US congressional delegation met with senior Taiwanese officials to discuss US-Taiwan relations, a few days after China conducted military drills around the island.
During a meeting in April, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken not to cross China's "red lines" on sovereignty, security, and development interests.
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XI is way too smart to push deep into the nether regions of Taiwan, especially after being briefed by Wang.