U.S. refuses Taiwan request for new jets

[Ideologue]

Very sad.  Forget aircraft, we should be giving the free Chinese the nukes we'd refuse to deploy.

Incidentally, I hate seeing "Taiwan" in an article.  It's the Republic of China, the legitimate sovereign of 1.3 billion people.  It's not difficult to remember.

[Faeelin]

Very sad.  Forget aircraft, we should be giving the free Chinese the nukes we'd refuse to deploy.

Incidentally, I hate seeing "Taiwan" in an article.  It's the Republic of China, the legitimate sovereign of 1.3 billion people.  It's not difficult to remember.

I had no idea the rest of China wanted to be ruled by the guys in Taipei.

[Razgovory]

Very sad.  Forget aircraft, we should be giving the free Chinese the nukes we'd refuse to deploy.

Incidentally, I hate seeing "Taiwan" in an article.  It's the Republic of China, the legitimate sovereign of 1.3 billion people.  It's not difficult to remember.

I had no idea the rest of China wanted to be ruled by the guys in Taipei.

The ROC still has cores on the rest of China.  Mongolia as well for that matter.

[Ideologue]

Very sad.  Forget aircraft, we should be giving the free Chinese the nukes we'd refuse to deploy.

Incidentally, I hate seeing "Taiwan" in an article.  It's the Republic of China, the legitimate sovereign of 1.3 billion people.  It's not difficult to remember.

I had no idea the rest of China wanted to be ruled by the guys in Taipei.

[Martinus]

Very sad.  Forget aircraft, we should be giving the free Chinese the nukes we'd refuse to deploy.

Incidentally, I hate seeing "Taiwan" in an article.  It's the Republic of China, the legitimate sovereign of 1.3 billion people.  It's not difficult to remember.

I had no idea the rest of China wanted to be ruled by the guys in Taipei.

The ROC still has cores on the rest of China.  Mongolia as well for that matter.

I thought cores expire after 50 years.

[LaCroix]

Wow, the one time that secession is actually justified and you totally miss out.

aren't you the one who always goes off about how you know nothing about china? maybe it woul-- wait, i'm arguing with raz.. NM

@thread: fuck the taiwanese. they'll be reunited within a century anyway, no need to pointlessly harm relations with a major power over such petty issues

[Viking]

Very sad.  Forget aircraft, we should be giving the free Chinese the nukes we'd refuse to deploy.

Incidentally, I hate seeing "Taiwan" in an article.  It's the Republic of China, the legitimate sovereign of 1.3 billion people.  It's not difficult to remember.

I had no idea the rest of China wanted to be ruled by the guys in Taipei.

The ROC still has cores on the rest of China.  Mongolia as well for that matter.

I thought cores expire after 50 years.

Not cores in accepted culture provinces.

[HisMajestyBOB]

There could be an element of wanting to pacify China over the credit rating debacle. Putting up the interest rates would be rather more disastrous than losing a single deal.

And the planes will be sold later at a more politically opportune time.

[Barrister]

Incidentally, I hate seeing "Taiwan" in an article.  It's the Republic of China, the legitimate sovereign of 1.3 billion people.  It's not difficult to remember.

Not according to your own government.

[DGuller]

Sometimes even a broken clock isn't right twice a day.

A clock that's never right is actually a clock that's in perfect working condition, that just hasn't been set properly. 

[Viking]

Very sad.  Forget aircraft, we should be giving the free Chinese the nukes we'd refuse to deploy.

Incidentally, I hate seeing "Taiwan" in an article.  It's the Republic of China, the legitimate sovereign of 1.3 billion people.  It's not difficult to remember.

I try to consistently refer to the PRC as the PRC, just like I refer to the DPRK as well as the ROK and ROC.

I'm considering starting to refer to the PRC as West China and the ROC as East China just to fuck with peoples minds.

[Razgovory]

Sometimes even a broken clock isn't right twice a day.

A clock that's never right is actually a clock that's in perfect working condition, that just hasn't been set properly. 

It could be going backwards.

[Admiral Yi]

It could be going backwards.

Then it would be right at least twice a day.

[Ideologue]

I'd just like to point out that my reply to Faelinn was gold, and you people must be cinematically ignorant to have missed it.

Not according to your own government.

The only reason for that is because we made a pact with the devil to fuel consumption through communist slave labor.  It's weird to act smugly about that.

[Admiral Yi]

I'd just like to point out that my reply to Faelinn was gold, and you people must be cinematically ignorant to have missed it.

I don't get it.