I wonder how many Taiwanese are looking to Hong Kong as a model. I would assume many residents fear the take-over and are looking to places in which to emigrate.

Taiwan is gone.

The South China Sea and all the contiguous countries including Indonesia are expendable.

I can think of many who ain't F. Scott Fitzgerald first rate material at all, and would even venture not even second or third rate in the gray matter department.

I hope China does not invade Taiwan. I think China needs to be made aware how unpleasant the world would view a move like that would be.

It is inevitable that Taiwan will one day be under the arm of China. That is part of China's 100 year plan, which includes vast parts of the South China Sea, parts of India and Vietnam and some other smaller pieces of Southeast Asia. China has even put those on its passports. The Indian government even designed a special stamp for visitors from China that purposely shows their disputed region as Indian. Remember, China has fought wars with both India and Vietnam. I would even go on to say that China's 1979 war with Vietnam pushed them into their biggest and greatest change in their military in decades, becoming a fully modernized and better trained force. Vietnam whooped China's ass then, and not using gorilla tactics. Before that war, soldiers used to spend parts of their days tending to farms and livestock for their food - no longer. Just like other modern militaries, the troops train and civilian companies supply food, etc.

Another horrifying fossil from the misbegotten Cold War. Sadly until we live in a world where the great powers recognize self-determination, situations like this will be cause for disagreement and war. I think the parties involved should sit down and negotiate a settlement, that certainly has to be preferable to China ending the rebellion by force or a nuclear war attempting to prevent same.

So, is what we are seeing here yet another REASON why the U.S. is feeling that ITS interests (????) are being a 'threatened,' presumably, just as was 'believed' with the Iraq W.M.D. Conflicts when in actual FACT it was all over the OIL Fields?
BEFORE you decide to 'jump down my throat,' I detest the Regime that operates in China just as much as I do the seeming U.S. Ideology that the ENTIRE world SHOULD a carbon copy of the U.S.

The only way to stop China from invading Taiwan is to make China believe such a move would be too costly to make. I can only think of two prices China would not want to pay. They are:

1. Economic
2. Military defeat.

Any sane person would prefer the first choice over the first. This must then mean we need all countries to tell China a military move against Taiwan means they would be subject to total (100%) economic isolation forever.