The Three Gorges Dam: The Most Important Strategic Target in the World
Simon Whistler · January 15, 2024 · 23 min video · China & Indo-Pacific
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China, America, Taiwan. In all the modern world, there is no crisis so no flash point in no geopolitical hot zone where the potential for global cataclysm runs quite so high. Mainland China lays claim to the Republic of China's territory on Taiwan and has made it clear its desire to bring Taiwan back by force.
Taiwan, sitting out on an island and armed to the teeth, has made it clear it would resist. And as soon as hostilities begin, the United States will be right there to take part.
If any such war broke out, it would immediately place two militarily powerful nations with immense nuclear stockpiles directly at odds, threatening the sort of escalation that could end life as we know it.
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