Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China

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Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China
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A. Xi said they would prefer to do it peacefully.

B. Autocratic regimes routinely define "peacefully" as a coup or overnight invasion.

C. Xi specifically set an atmosphere of strategic uncertainty by saying a time "hadn't been decided".

That tells me they've given up on winning elections in Taiwan. If they're scheduling it then it's not on Taiwan's election schedule. Ergo, definitely not peacefully in democratic terms.

Well it will be interesting at least.

Well it will be interesting at least.

As in "May you live in interesting times?"

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. Your prize options are nuclear incineration during Friday rush hour or cake.

I suspect this will happen during USAs election.... you know when the world stops existing for a few days.

Well the Russians largely succeeded with the Olympics. So that's a possibility too.