If the US goes to war with China over Taiwan.

@sree251 [quote]Western social media is mostly western views. I am insulated from social media in China or Japan because I can't speak Chinese or Japanese. I am sure India has a huge social media inaccessible to me.
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Bunk!

I don't understand Japanese at all! Yet I do watch NHK! I don't understand Polish at all yet I do watch PTV. I don't understand Arabic at all, yet I do read articles on Al Jezeerah!

I can go further but it's a waste of time! Yes India has several English article sites! They where once a British colony.

But you don't read!

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@DeWayfarer [quote] we have nothing more to discuss than [/quote]

It's a pity that you are running away. If you have discovered the right perspective, you would want to share that. I never run away from any discussion. I doubt Richard Eagleman would want to talk to me about his perception of time. He is a neuroscientist. He believes that the brain is the seat of perception. If what he says is true, then there are two realities: a perceptual reality presented by the brain, and a material reality behind the perceived one. How is David going to confront experimental observations in quantum physics?

David can deal with non-academics. His specialty of neuroscience is a very small space in the field of knowledge. He is basically a psychologist and not to be confused with a neurologist which is a rigorous profession requiring a medical degree.

@DeWayfarer [quote] I don't understand Japanese at all! Yet I do watch NHK! I don't understand Polish at all yet I do watch PTV. I don't understand Arabic at all, yet I do read articles on Al Jezeerah!

I can go further but it's a waste of time! Yes India has several English articles sites! They where once a British colony. [/quote]

You are accessing foreign social media in English. Yours is a western perception of the world in which other cultures exist. It is similar to your brain perception of reality as portrayed by David Eagleman. Your perceived reality is not the actual reality. You can never see the Japanese world or the Chinese world as seen by the Japanese or the Chinese respectively. Our rules based order is incomprehensible to them.

This has been a good discussion.

@NoThanksLeon You are right about Vietnam and Afghanistan, but Falklands was a UK thing. haha

@JamesBugman The US was involved. haha

@justanothername Congress is a war machine. Pelosi visited Taiwan against White House's advice. Money politics drive US foreign policy. American perception of China as enemy is being shaped for targeting China's government.

@sree251 To some degree China is the enemy and yes the US, and many businesses around the world have hi tech manufacturing interests in Taiwan which need to be protected from Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

@Guardian You are right. The Cuban crisis was a close shave.

Are you not disgusted with this endless geopolitical conflicts? WW1 and WW2 were horrendous affairs. Millions were killed. I feel I am the only one alive horrified by all this killing.

@sree251 what shocks me is that no one learns from history, and the killing keeps happening over and over again!

@Guardian I don't think there is anyone alive here. There are just dead minds bouncing around.

@jshm2 It is not a matter of whether or not the USA can mess around with China. What is the rationale for making it our business if the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan straits want to work it out among themselves? Both sides have been living in peace since their civil war ended in 1949.

China was our ally in WW2 fighting Japan. The US agreed that Japan had to give up Taiwan and returned it to China. Our "One China Policy" of 1979 reaffirmed China as legal government of all China's territories. We have now pivoted to a policy of "strategic ambiguity" towards Taiwan because we need an excuse to go to war with China.

Have you ever messed around with someone in the public space? You feel you can take him on and start giving him the evil eye just because you have a gun and he can see you carrying it.