China will boost its defence spending by 7.2% this year, fuelling a military budget that has more than doubled under President Xi Jinping’s 11 years in office as Beijing hardens its stance on Taiwan, according to official reports on Tuesday.

China also officially adopted tougher language against Taiwan as it released the budget figures, dropping the mention of “peaceful reunification” in a government report delivered by Premier Li Qiang at the opening of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber-stamp parliament, on Tuesday.

      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        6 个月前

        Against the Taiwanese? They aren’t the ones bringing a big stonking navy in, and attacking the US directly is…well it’s about as smart as attacking the US directly was when Japan did Pearl Harbor.

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      6 个月前

      D-Day was a surprise largest sea based invasion force in all of human history.

      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        6 个月前

        It wasn’t a surprise, it was a misdirection

        China can’t pretend they’re actually planning to attack Calais and Norway

        Also, the Germans didn’t even know radar was a thing at that point I’m pretty sure Taiwan has Radar scoping out the entire chinese coastline at this point

          • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 个月前

            The Germans were aware of the invasion, you can’t hide an invasion force that large. It’s physically impossible the only thing hidden was the landing sites. Which like, yeah, that’s just hiding plans. Not buildup