Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for more than a year of repeated missions by China's air force near the democratically governed island, often in the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone, or ADIZ, close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.
Taiwan calls China's repeated nearby military activities "grey zone" warfare, designed to both wear out Taiwan's forces by making them repeatedly scramble, and also to test Taiwan's responses.
The latest Chinese mission included 34 fighters plus four electronic warfare aircraft and a single bomber, the Taiwan ministry said.
Between the ramping up of this and the Ukraine border situation, things keep feeling disturbingly tense. If I was the gambling type, I'd bet on the Chinese not actually doing anything genuinely...
Between the ramping up of this and the Ukraine border situation, things keep feeling disturbingly tense. If I was the gambling type, I'd bet on the Chinese not actually doing anything genuinely serious (and on Russia doing... Something- hard to say exactly what, but those fuckers have a long history of invading and faking coups and shit), but it's all still annoying and worrying regardless.
Wow, that's crazy! So let me see if I'm getting this right: Asian Boss did a bunch of filming and interviews, and got mostly green (pro-Taiwan) viewpoints They tried to hire someone to film blue...
Wow, that's crazy!
So let me see if I'm getting this right:
Asian Boss did a bunch of filming and interviews, and got mostly green (pro-Taiwan) viewpoints
They tried to hire someone to film blue (pro-unification) viewpoints, and exclusively blue viewpoints
ie. going out into the streets and turning down any pro-Taiwan interviews
After the contracter (fairly, yikes) turned them down, Asian Boss still wanted an interview with someone specifically young and specifically with far-blue viewpoints
They then searched for a young person with deep blue views, found someone who happened to be a fairly popular YouTuber, and arranged an interview set up to look like a street interview
And then they rolled it together with actual street interviews, didn't tell anyone that the one blue interview was cherry-picked and set up, and presented it as an "authentic street interview, taking the pulse of the public".
Between the ramping up of this and the Ukraine border situation, things keep feeling disturbingly tense. If I was the gambling type, I'd bet on the Chinese not actually doing anything genuinely serious (and on Russia doing... Something- hard to say exactly what, but those fuckers have a long history of invading and faking coups and shit), but it's all still annoying and worrying regardless.
Somewhat related: the YouTube channel Asian Boss did some
high-qualitystreet interviews with Taiwanese people on Taiwan-China relations.Wow, that's crazy!
So let me see if I'm getting this right:
And then they rolled it together with actual street interviews, didn't tell anyone that the one blue interview was cherry-picked and set up, and presented it as an "authentic street interview, taking the pulse of the public".
That's... pretty shitty, to put it mildly!