Alright, so with many of our aircraft carriers in port at home or in yokusuka, apparently the chinese black hat leadership section has decided that only chip they had left in their hands to play was the military one.
Taiwan Will "Never Accept" Reunification With Beijing, President Says
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-02/taiwan-will-never-accept-reunification-beijing-president-says
"Following a menacing speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping where he threatened violence against Taiwan should it pursue de jure independence from China and laid bare his intentions to push for a "one country, two systems" arrangement for what China considers to be a 'rogue province', pro-independence Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen clapped back at Xi in comments to the BBC on Wednesday, where she said the island would never accept reunification with China on Beijing's terms.After defending the status quo and calling on Beijing to "face the reality" of Taiwan's continued independence, Tsai declared on Wednesday that the island, which has functioned like a de facto country since 1949, when defeated nationalists led by Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai Shek fled across the Strait of Taiwan to seek refuge from the Communists, would never agree to the "one country, two systems" arrangement like the one that governs Hong Kong."
Why press the taiwan issue now? It's the easiest one to guarentee favorable outcome for the chinese, unlike say the south china sea issue (too far distanced, carriers still not 100% ready to undertake such large scale conflict with multinational naval fleets + US). Taiwan is within striking distance of land based assets of the chinese mainland, so we can assume chinese leadership chose this 'fuse point' as the best way to win concessions from United States.
Get this point: this isn't about taiwan, which in reality is already under chinese economic and military influence (even with US assistance to taiwan). This is a means to satisfy the uppity stupid shits in PLA (black hat central, corrupt, stupid and myopic) that china can 'strike back' because muh china stronk sentiment has to be satisfied in the chinese public consciousness.
Never mind all the bullshit chinks pulled on the world (US, Africa, now central and latin america and central asia).
chinese see a need to win a military/force to basically save face. Shame hundreds of thousands of chinese will have to pay the price for the stupidity of the large section of their leadership.
We know that xi is none too friendly with black hat elements in the PLA (purges of 2010 etc), because to put it bluntly PLA is a very globalist friendly establishment along with MSS (ministry of state security, chinese kgb really).
they all don't give two fucks about selling out their own mothers in order to gain additional 'power' or 'prestige'.
PLA leadership started mouthing off about war and so forth based on muh china stronk mentality, never mind their entire economy is based on fraudulent and globalist dependent dealings that are being dismantled. triads are being rounded up, strings are being cut. PLA want to flex its muscles while all US carriers are home ported, their ethnic attitude coming into play.
How will this situation develop? Thoughts, anons?