the chinese counties party wants taiwan to start doing the calculations rely on questionable u.s support or make a deal with the communist party now this is actually the message the chinese regime has been sending throughout asia since the scarborough shoal incident in NUMBER_TOKEN. the scarborough shoal is here very close to the philippines but also claimed by china filipino fishermen have been using the shoal for generations but in NUMBER_TOKEN china sent its maritime militia to the shoal to occupy it now the u.s has a mutual defense treaty with the philippines and when it started to look like china and the philippines would actually come to blows over the shoal the u.s had to step in under president obama and vice president joe biden the u.s brought both sides to the table and got them to both agree to leave the shoal the following week the philippines ships left the scarborough shoal and returned home the chinese however stayed in the area and then the u.s did nothing china still occupies the scarborough shoal to this day it was shocking even to the chinese regime it looked as if the u.s couldn't be counted on to defend its allies against china so the chinese regime began what it calls the scarborough model the scarborough model is a template for china gradually to exert control over the western pacific by snapping up one land feature at a time a sort of incremental revisionism that slowly squeezes out the us without ever providing a reason for a confrontation that's when china accelerated building these man-made islands in the south china sea the u.s told china to stop they didn't listen so the u.s said okay fine just don't militarize them and the chinese regime promised not to in fact xi jinping said this in a joint press conference with president obama during his state visit to the white house relevant construction activities that china are undertaking in the spratly islands do not target or impact any country and china does not intend to pursue militarization then china put missile launchers on the islands and started calling them necessary military facilities the chinese communist party knows a war for taiwan would be a disaster for china which is why there's a propaganda campaign backed up by frequent military incursions into taiwan's air defense zone china wants to convince taiwan there's no hope of winning so they will surrender without a fight and without clear messaging from the u.s on taiwan china's propaganda might just work now it's time for me to answer a question from a member of the china uncensored NUMBER_TOKEN cent army fans who support us and our efforts to expose the truth about the chinese communist party by contributing to the crowdfunding website patreon logan asks how much do you think the ccp had to do with afghanistan falling so quickly it's a very good question logan a few weeks ago chinese officials met with taliban leaders and the ccp has certainly been using the u.s failure in afghanistan as a propaganda
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