Donald Trump Suggests He Would Not Defend Taiwan From China

The United States will lose its super power status with Donald Trump as president

and it will be transferred to China with Russia as their lapdog. A new age of authoritarianism which will be extremely costly and deadly to quell ala wwii
- I don't even know who would be able to fight the trio from hell. At that point it's only a matter of time before the whole planet is fascist.
- Goodbye to normal prices of any kind
  Toooo late
- That would explain his sudden love for crypto after bashing Bitcoin during his first term.
If you just read Promise #3 in the Forward of the Project 2025 document, I believe that's the point.
Any time globalization is mentioned, it's in a negative way. They call the global US treaties and economic policy a woke, progressive failure. They blame much of America's problems on our current path of global leadership.
They have to pull it all in and weed out what they dont like before they try to expand in a way that fits their image. (Oil and manufacturing) It's how governments like this function.
- Which is hilarious, if the dollar stops being the reserve currency for oil America's massive debt mountain will be called in and the economy will collapse.
Pretty much Brexit on a global scale.
it will effectively hand trillions of dollars of business investments directly to china.
It needs to, the US needs to mind it's own business
- Show them how, we're waiting.

Trump is an idiot and a coward. He doesn't give a shit about global security, he doesn't get that abandoning allies only makes us look weak and unreliable, and he has no principles which could compel him to take a stand. He will decide things based on his own emotions and ego, doing whatever he thinks makes him look good. And his idea of looking good is less about being a leader or statesman and more about pretending to be a tough guy that gets respect by rewarding friends and punishing enemies.

Remember, this is the guy who, when faced with a choice between showing leadership in the face of a pandemic or downplaying the disease so that it wouldn't be associated with him, went with downplaying the disease. If he can't be trusted to make the right choice in a conflict between a virus and humanity, why would we ever expect him to make the tough call to defend an ally in a difficult conflict.

Honestly, I think if Trump had been president in 1941, he would have downplayed the significance of Pearl Harbor and would have used it as an excuse to stop aid to our allies. But I'm sure he'd still be all for internment, it's very much his style.

pretending to be a tough guy that gets respect by rewarding friends and punishing enemies.
Or vice-versa, when it comes to the US' relationship with the countries themselves (as opposed to his personal fawning sycophancy towards dictators).
- Right, it's not about whether they are America's friend or foe, it's only about their relationship with Trump. And unfortunately, Trump seems to be better at relating to dictators.
  And it probably doesn't help that democratically elected leaders from countries that have longstanding relationships with the US tend to expect America to live up to it's obligations. They aren't coming in and kissing the ring in exchange for favors, they're putting the burden on the president to, you know, do his fucking job. "What's that, Ukraine wants the defense funding that congress allocated for them? Well what will they do for me?"

Russia, China - hell, North Korea - take whatcha want.

No wonder the idiot commies are for him.

They are not really commies. But I'd guess you know that.
Edit: In case it's not clear, I strenuously object to the use of "commie" as a pejorative, particularly when it makes no sense whatsoever.
- Then what are they?
- I honestly don’t know what they are. I doubt they do.

trump would never stand up for the smallest in a fight. That is cowardice.

If we're not going to have bases all over the world, we can shrink the size of the military, right?

Right? Insert Anakin/Padme meme

The fascists would want an army at home to keep the populace in line.

This kind of declarations are very dangerous and could lead to other countries to produce their own nuclear weapons (South Korea for example)

A bit different, but South Korea already asked the US to redeploy nuclear weapons to South Korea and im fairly positive the US already agreed.
- I hope that if Trump wins the elections he don't reconsider this agreement
their* own nuclear weapons
- Edited :)

Chinese check cleared

Fat greasey bearded red neck squeals intensify

China takes over Taiwan and starts restricting AI training chips to USA 😂

Yeah......we know......

Cool I can't wait until the price of all of our electronics goes up 400%.

Maybe then all of the "I don't care, politics doesn't affect me" idiots will finally wake the fuck up.

Because the entire world, including the US recognizes Taiwan is part of China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act
This whole post reads like China Astroturfing the subject on social media.
anticolonialist
Unless the "good colonialist" does it!🤣
- Removed, civilty.

Of course he merely “suggests” because he has no idea what he would actually do. He probably thinks Taiwan is a K-pop band.

"Trump's comments still fall broadly within the ambit of the longstanding U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity regarding any action in the event of a Taiwan contingency."

Hypothetically he wins and China invaded." Biden was weak." Supporters swoon. Geopolitical affairs get dumber.

Good he's probably not that good of a fighter

I wouldn't expect Biden to either, if China actually went for it.

There's only a handful of places who even recognise Taiwan as a country, and Paraguay sure ain't coming to the rescue of nVidia's share price if it kicks off.

Most of the world does not want the USA promoting civil wars, coupes and proxy wars between neighboring countries to assure their hegemony.