Also it’s not even been 5 years and they’ve already made great headway with their stated goal of screwing the French securing against China.

Maybe stop getting your news from social media if you want to know what is actually happening?

Honestly grumbling about Putin himself is a change in Russia. They’ve traditionally applied good tsar, bad boyars to him.

In what way is Iran proof of China’s ability to conduct an amphibious invasion?

The 2027 date comes from a report to congress in 2021 so it’s not like it’s always been a year away. It was also an estimate for the timescale for China to build up the military capacity to be able to annex Taiwan, AFAIK there’s never been an official analysis that they actually would pull the trigger on an invasion on that timescale or any other.

The issue is that if the analysis is correct and if they think whoever comes after Trump would be more likely to defend Taiwan than Trump is then there’s an incentive to go while Trump is still president which pretty much would mean striking as soon as they had the capability, I.e. in 2027.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Also to act as a vehicle for “investors” to funnel money to the president.