The PRC Ministry of Defense (MOD) warned the United States was “playing with fire”

• The PRC Ministry of Defense (MOD) warned the United States was “playing with fire” in stationing Green Berets on the Kinmen and Penghu islands.

PRC MOD spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang responded to the ROC claim on March 15 by stressing that the “Taiwan issue” is the first “insurmountable red line” in US-PRC relations. Zhang said that the US troop deployment and arms sales to Taiwan aimed to “weaken, hollow out, and distort” the one-China principle and warned that “those who connive at and support ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces will get burned for playing with fire and taste the bitter fruit of their own doing.” He said the PRC military will “resolutely smash ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist activities and external interfering attempts.

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The Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) expanded its efforts to erode the Republic of China's (ROC) sovereignty around Kinmen Island. Four CCG ships operated in Taiwan’s territorial waters around Kinmen Island for two consecutive days for the first time on March 1

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Nithavela said:

Some days I just wish we'd be a species where every kind of threat would be met with the same reaction as the threatened action. Threaten the US with nukes? Boom, crater. Threaten a marine invasion of Taiwan? Boom, fleet gone. Threaten that non-followers of your diety of choice will burn in hell? Fire up the barbecue.

Either the world would end in a week or people would start behaving in a civil manner. Win-win.

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