Posted on 10/05/2019 2:40:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: China is filling a 'strategic vacuum' in the Pacific left by the US and its allies, and that's bad news for Taiwan
Taiwan, which China considers to be a renegade territory, lost two of its few remaining allies in late September.
China has sought to win over Taiwan's allies, but those countries have their own reasons to embrace Beijing.
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On December 1, 2016, 22 countries had full diplomatic relations with Taiwan, an island nation seen as a breakaway province by its larger neighbor, China.
On December 2 that year, President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen had what was thought to be the first phone call between a Taiwanese leader and a US president or president-elect since the US severed ties with Taiwan and recognized China in 1979.
For China, after that the gloves came off.
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Propaganda for Yahoo’s
They own CNN
a real pearl in the left wing globalist lie world .
Unreal
What is the background of the writer? Mainland Chinese? I think this is propaganda like you said.
The Philippines is STILL the strategic key in the South China Sea.
And they threw us out.
It would be a very good thing to rekindle that relationship. Two airfields and a very capable strategic port.
From Clark Airbase tactical fighters can reach deep.
Mainland Chinese.
Yes.
Verizon owns yahboo
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