Taipei replica in remote Chinese province fans Taiwan invasion fears
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Satellite images verified by FRANCE 24 reveal that China has built a replica of Taipei’s presidential district in remote Inner Mongolia, fuelling speculation that Beijing intends to use the site as a…

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The satellite images reveal a layout of streets strongly resembling the Bo’ai Special Zone, a restricted area in Taipei’s Zhongzheng District that houses Taiwan’s most important state buildings, including the presidential palace, the supreme court, the ministry of justice and the central bank of Taiwan.

The Bo’ai Special Zone is subject to specific regulations, including a strict ban on overflight.

  • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
    33·
    7 months ago

    This should come as no surprise. The UK’s MOD did similar, albeit on a smaller scale, for training troops for deployment in Northern Ireland, and Germany/Europe.

    I think we all know China is gearing up to attack Taiwan as they make no secret that, as far as they are concerned, it belongs to them. The fact that the Taiwanese don’t agree is neither here nor there.

    Same with Russia.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
      15·
      7 months ago

      they make no secret that it belongs to them.

      Can we say instead that they think it belongs to them?

    • Zworf@beehaw.org
      9·
      7 months ago

      The UK’s MOD did similar, albeit on a smaller scale, for training troops for deployment in Northern Ireland, and Germany/Europe.

      Those are and were not their enemies and they were not specific targets. What is so eyebrow-raising here is that it is so specific.

      The fact that the Taiwanese don’t agree is neither here nor there.

      Uhmm yeah that really does make the difference between an invasion and an amicable unification. I would say what China things is neither here nor there because they don’t own it so they have nothing to say about it.

      • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        You’re reading that last bit out of context. As* far as the Chinese are concerned, *what the Taiwanese think is neither here nor there. The Chinese have decided its theirs. Nobody else gets a say.