Donald Trump calls for Taiwan to ‘pay’ for its own defence
Donald Trump calls for Taiwan to ‘pay’ for its own defence
Taiwan is incredibly pro-US, one of our staunchest allies in Asia, together with Japan. Great idea pissing them off.
How do you 'piss off' a vassal state that would instantly collapse (and never would have existed in the first place) without US imperial intervention? What are the consequences of 'pissing off' someone completely under your control?
Taiwan's current government is incredibly pro-US. Trump understands that the DPP's days are numbered given the rise of the KMT/TPP (which only lost the election because of a last second collapse of coalition). Taiwan's government is pro-US in spite of the public's interest, not because of it.
After all, Taiwan's trade with the mainland and Hong Kong make up almost 50% of all exports. The bulk of this is in basic goods across the Taiwanese economy, not the product of one company.
In the past, Taiwan's frigid relations with the mainland were due to sour memories (losing the civil war, getting kicked out, etc.) Today? Young people just want a prosperous life, and China is absurdly prosperous - especially for young engineers in tech. The US can either recognize that fact, or drag another country into war.
It's pretty funny when foreigners care more about your own sovereignty.
“They took almost 100 per cent of our chip industry, I give them credit . . . Now we’re giving them billions of dollars to build new chips in our country, and then they’re going to . . . bring it back to their country,” Trump said.
Capitalism is fine when USA can benefit from it, but bad when it hurts them, eh? Fucking hypocrit.
yeah, best presidential candidate Russia has
Arming Taiwan is a pathway to war.
Standing up to tyranny is often a pathway to violence.
The United goddamn States is not fucking standing up to tyranny lol
That's why US hegemony must be resisted at all costs.
War will happen between China and Taiwan regardless. Just like China vs Hong Kong.
Hong Kong was always going to happen because that was an agreed upon conclusion. China violated promises that it made (one country, two systems my ass), but Hong Kong was a part China. Taiwan has never been under the control of the current government of mainland China. At this point Taiwan would likely be a separate country if it didn't have China's dagger at its throat telling it that even a breath of declaring independence will result in immediate invasion.
Unfortunately this is an empty campaign promise. We saw from his first term that he's going to toe the NATSEC line when it comes to encroachment on China.
This is likely just stock manipulation. Interview was in June, and just now released the day before TSMCs earnings report.
3 minutes into browsing this evening and already found the Russian shrill 😞
