cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32330798
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“China is supporting Russia’s efforts. China is building up its armed forces, including its navy, at a rapid pace," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters as he wrapped up his visit to the Japanese navy port of Yokosuka. “We cannot be naive, and we really have to work together, assess what is happening.”
Rutte said NATO is worried about China’s military exercises near Taiwan and “we follow them very closely.”
Japan considers China as a threat in the region and has in recent years accelerated military buildup, including preparing to acquire strikeback capability with long-range cruise missiles.
Japan, in addition to the United States, has expanded its defense ties with other friendly nations in the Indo-Pacific and Europe, as well as NATO, saying Russia’s war on Ukraine underscores that security risks in Europe and Asia are inseparable.
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Taiwan is the backbone of semiconductor production, unless you want to go back to dumb rocks instead of guided rockets you need to protect taiwan. Also with the effectiveness of drones in the ukraine war has shown that we need chips whether you like it or not
@WILSOOON
I get your point but it’s no more NATO’s job to launch a military operation in Asia than it is for the US to conquer Greenland through military force. Either notion is outrageous military imperialism.
I there is a pretty big difference between safeguarding a nations sovereignty and actively making threats to invade anothers territory. One is basic international decency and another is being an absolute twat. Also NATO is a military alliance, and like 70% of a military is just logistics and sourcing supplies. When something is threating the bottom like of their fighting ability, like idk, no more the chip making plants in taiwan. Then it would be stupid not to protest. If rutte and NATO should stop interfering in that region of the world like you want to , they would first need to build up a chip manufacturing industry here and that is a multi decade , muti trillion euro endeavour. Since so much of our industry here is high tegh stuff ( think cars and such) this would be a massive shake up in the economy, possible destabilising it due to the extremely low chance of return of investment and massive build up costs (chips are damn hard to make). Simply put europe and NATO can not afford to loose taiwan because if we do, we loose our teeth and our economy, the whole house comes crashing down when removing taiwan.
@WILSOOON
So militarised colonialism is OK when others have the resources and infrastructures we don’t have but want? Understood.
Explain to me how taiwan is a military colony of NATO please. Because if i remember correctly there has never been any NATO mission there, just US based operations to safeguard its borders from china. Which has repeatedly stated its intent to absorb taiwan back into its borders for the past 5 decades.
There was no talk about launching military action though.
@Kissaki
Not yet there isn’t but “NATO chief raises concern over China’s arms buildup and military drills near Taiwan, calls on allies and friendly nations to work together” is not asking China & Taiwan to make up. It’s a call to arms to Western powers
China’s policy is pretty clear. They don’t want to “make up”.
What’s the alternative? Try to foster it and hope for the best? Accept when it doesn’t work out, like with Tibet and Hong Kong?
@Kissaki
What’s the alternative? NATO keeping its nose out of what is patently not its business.