It gels with the US being ready if/when PRchina invades Taiwan.

China could easily invade the Philippines too, presumably.

	▲	nailer 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think they want to. It burns at the CCPs soul that Taiwan is free and democratic, ran by a government that once saved their country by defeating the Japanese. They want to erase the Republic of China and the KMT.