China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War

China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War(jstribune.com)

16 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | 9 comments

MSFT_Edging 35 minutes ago |

Lets play "Spot the thinktank cretens"!

jstribune.com about page:

> The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune is a journal representing Israeli and American views about international affairs.

Hm interesting. Lets see who runs it.

Editorial Board

-Ahmed Charai, Chair -- Owner of the site, on multiple thinktank boards such as the atlantic council

-Jacob Heilbrunn, Co-Chair -- Another fellow of the atlantic council

-Dr. Daniel Samet -- Daniel J. Samet is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

-Melinda Haring -- a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center

-Dr. Eran Lerman -- former IDF colonel and a lecturer at Shalem College

Board of Directors

-Gen. James Jones -- 21st national security advisor under Obama.

-Ahmed Charai -- owner of the site again

-Admiral James Foggo III -- former US navy Admiral. Nice retirement spot, James

Board of Advisors

-Hon. Dov Zakheim, Chairman -- Various positions under Reagan

-Hon. John Hamre -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hamre

-Gen. Yaakov Amidror -- former major general and National Security Advisor of Israel

-- got tired of the bit around here --

-Ambassador Anne W. Patterson

-Ambassador Eric Edelman

-Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan

-Ambassador Atul Keshap

-Gen. Ruth Yaron

-Dan Meridor

Anyway, the goal here was to point out articles like this don't come from journalistic backgrounds, but thinktank policy makers. The intention of pieces like this is to launder official government opinion as a semi-legitimate news source. Think "Radio Free Asia".

__patchbit__ 18 minutes ago | |

Paul Craig Roberts points to Israel and the powerful American lobby are writing new laws to be passed forbidding words and ideas, which is against the spirit and the letter of established laws and gets no or not enough journalistic attention.

dclavijo 55 minutes ago |

I found this video about the topic on internet: https://youtu.be/UWBrzzd1_yg informational and entertaining

baud147258 50 minutes ago | |

Funny, I watched it just last Friday (randomly, as I don't follow that channel). But while its author makes a compelling point, I'm not sure sure how much of the basing of the semi-conductor industry in Taiwan was a conscious decision vs a post-facto rationalization.

nixon_why69 1 hour ago |

> This is why Taiwan cannot be understood only as a sovereignty dispute. It is a test of whether the Indo-Pacific remains a plural maritime system, or whether it becomes a China-centered security sphere.

It was never a plural maritime system. The question is whether the oceans in question are US-dominated or Chinese-dominated.

actionfromafar 1 hour ago | |

I think the unsaid part is that the US by and large upheld navigable seas for everyone up until recently but we can't expect this from China. (And regrettably from recent events, maybe not from the US either.)

csomar 41 minutes ago | | |

They didn’t upheld navigable seas for everyone. Sanctions are a thing. They upheld the seas for anyone that wanted to join and play by its rules.

puelocesar 1 hour ago |

That was a surprisingly good read. Brief enough that I can finish while in-between tickets, but long and deep enough that it can beautifully explain the whole crisis without oversimplifying it, and at the same time carefully presenting the two conflicting narratives.

edit: although I probably wouldn't trust the source when reading about Middle East conflicts...

throw2331 1 hour ago |

China is gonna rip apart Taiwan unless it stops trusting America and starts believe that war is inevitable sooner or later.