Taiwan committing to nuclear arms, publicly, pretty much guarantees a Chinese invasion. The CCP will absolutely not tolerate western-friendly nukes chilling just offshore.
It’d be a different story if they quietly accumulated an arsenal and then revealed it to ward off any attempts at invasion. But we don’t live in that story, it seems.
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Shutting down their reactors was one of the dumbest own goals driven by politics over pragmatism. The fact that they still haven’t learned from it speaks volumes. These are not serious people.
> Nuclear power generated more than half of Taiwan’s electricity in the 1980s, but in May state-owned utility TaiPower switched off the final of six reactors after its 40-year operating license expired. That made Taiwan the third country to close all its nuclear power plants, following Italy and Germany.
> President Lai Ching-te celebrated the step as historic realisation of his Democratic Progressive party’s decades-long goal of a “nuclear-free homeland”.
Last week, he told a DPP meeting that he would oppose the referendum to restart the plant. “We will vote against it together,” he said.
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Taiwan committing to nuclear arms, publicly, pretty much guarantees a Chinese invasion. The CCP will absolutely not tolerate western-friendly nukes chilling just offshore.
It’d be a different story if they quietly accumulated an arsenal and then revealed it to ward off any attempts at invasion. But we don’t live in that story, it seems.
Shutting down their reactors was one of the dumbest own goals driven by politics over pragmatism. The fact that they still haven’t learned from it speaks volumes. These are not serious people.
> Nuclear power generated more than half of Taiwan’s electricity in the 1980s, but in May state-owned utility TaiPower switched off the final of six reactors after its 40-year operating license expired. That made Taiwan the third country to close all its nuclear power plants, following Italy and Germany.
> President Lai Ching-te celebrated the step as historic realisation of his Democratic Progressive party’s decades-long goal of a “nuclear-free homeland”.
Last week, he told a DPP meeting that he would oppose the referendum to restart the plant. “We will vote against it together,” he said.