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I am on my phone so sorry for any bad grammar or misspelled words. To try and answer your question to the best of my ability, it basically comes down to how much can power hungry expansionist countries push the US, and allies, before they take action. China (communist party, not necessary all the citizens) feel like Taiwan is a run away a state that belongs to mainland China and in order to fully rebuild China to its former glory they need to unify it. Taiwan was given to China in 1945 as a part of the of the resolution of WW2, in 1949 during the retreat of the ROC in the Chinese civil war (Republic side of the civil war) they retreated to Taiwan. In the 80’s the government of Taiwan was ratified and there was an official president elected. During that period the leader of China was a much more passive leader looking mainly to rebuild and strengthen China from within, with not much ambition on the global politics level. The next leader (the current one) Xi Jinping, had a much different idea. Xi rose to power by comparing himself to Mao. You can site many pieces of artwork, statues, and phraseology, used by Xi that is pretty much a call back to Mao. Xi also created the 2049 plan. The 2049 plan is to build up China to over take the US’s global power - or hegemony as Xi likes to call it - by 2049, with an eye at spreading the Chinese way of life to the world. Part of this plan includes a one unified China. A key player in this strategy is Taiwan. Like Mao, Xi believes Taiwan belongs to the Chinese mainland, and that in its current state it is an embarrassing runaway nation. Side note this is not just true of Taiwan, areas around Mayanmar have similar issues. However, Taiwan does not want to be a part of the CPC (Communist Part of China). Here’s where the US comes in. First, Taiwan is an ally of the states, but, maybe more importantly, they are an extremely advantageous island for defense if China were to all out attack US forces, and war ensued. Which thrusts Taiwan into a position of a sort of glue holding all the nations of the South China Sea together. China, claims Taiwan is theirs and that they can take it over, the US claims (correctly) that it is not and China is over stepping international law by threatening to take it over. The more the US claims Taiwan exists and keeps military equipment there, the more awkward it gets for Chinese leaders. For an example of how tense it is at the moment, China claims a lot of smaller, China made, islands in the South China Sea, (also known as the Phlilipene Sea) as their own sovereign land. The US, and most all other countries in the world, do not recognize it as China’s because that is a break in international law again. So in an attempt to de-legitimize this claim the US routinely demonstrates military actions that break rules for a sovereign nation, let me explain. International rule for any country when moving military forces through another countries waters (I.e. if the US needs to send an Aircraft carrier fleet to Alaska through Canadian waters) is to move as quickly as possible, in the straightest line possible from point A to point B. Since the US (and most of the world) doesn’t recognize the South China Sea as sovereign Chinese territory the US will drive large military vessels, slowly, in a zig zag motion through the sea, which puts China in an awkward spot. They claim this is their land, and as such they should see this as an act of war, but they know they can’t quite take the whole of the US Navy (at least not yet) so they have to stand down, which is an embarrassing demonstration to the Chinese people that China doesn’t really own these waters.

There is a very similar situation happening in Ukraine with Russia, although I know much less about it, essentially Russia claimed the Ukraine was their’s and again the US correctly said it was not, Russia decided to move in anyway, knowing the Americans would not likely risk an all out war with Russia over the Ukraine.

Here’s what is important to think about, why are the states always the one at bat when countries try to abuse international law and human rights globally. We need to shift from a “US is the only super power they will take care of it” view to a “how does our country try to effect positive change on the global scale” view. Sorry for the wall of text.

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text I am on my phone so sorry for any bad grammar or misspelled words. To try and answer your question to the best of my ability, it basically comes down to how much can power hungry expansionist countries push the US, and allies, before they take action. China (communist party, not necessary all the citizens) feel like Taiwan is a run away a state that belongs to mainland China and in order to fully rebuild China to its former glory they need to unify it. Taiwan was given to China in 1945 as a part…
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