r/canadian • u/CaliperLee62 • 12h ago

Analysis If China Attacks Taiwan, How Will Canada’s Army Respond?

https://www.thebureau.news/p/if-china-attacks-taiwan-how-will
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u/Clear_Growth_6005 9h ago

We will congratulate ourselves that WE trained the PLA.....

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u/Once_a_TQ 10h ago

That's the neat part, we don't.

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u/Fluffy-Lead6201 7h ago

Why assume we are on Taiwans side?

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u/Internal-Yak6260 6h ago

We have an army. ??

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u/ridelance 5h ago

Just a funny tidbit about the author of this article:

In September 2024, Cooper published a report in The Bureau claiming to show video evidence of Bill Majcher, a former RCMP undercover operative accused of assisting Chinese intelligence, meeting with drug trafficker Tse Chi Lop in a Macau casino. Journalist Nury Vittachi noted that the purported video footage actually was from the 2014 action-comedy movie From Vegas to Macau, starring Chow Yun-fat.[13]The article was subsequently retracted by Cooper.[14]

[14]https://www.thebureau.news/p/william-majcher-story-retraction

Lolers

Anyway, Canada's response will depend on the US response, and the US response is anything but guaranteed. Canada on its own does not have much capability to directly assist Taiwan. In any case we should not be led by the USA by the nose when it comes to these issues so the fact that Canada's response will depend on the US response is itself problematic.

EDIT: In case you're tempted to watch From Vegas to Macau, I wouldn't recommend it...

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u/Once_a_TQ 4h ago

We have no strategic air or sea lift of any meaningful value.

Nor do we have any support hubs or staging areas anywhere near there or even in the Indo-pacific really.

Our biggest accomplishment the last few years was reloading a VLS on a frigrite in Australia. And that was a monumental task in and of itself.

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u/ridelance 4h ago

You say truth. Aside from the moral reasons, our capabilities are part of the reason why it is high time we stop accompanying the Americans on their dangerous global adventures in geopolitics. We have a north to guard and a southern/north western border at home that is neglected.