Posted on 01/17/2024 7:51:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
On Saturday morning, Biden shuffled into a media scrum on the South Lawn to offer a few remarks before heading to Camp David for a weekend vacation after his Carribean vacation.
8,000 miles away voters in the Republic of China, also known as Taiwan, had just elected President ‘William’ Lai who had promised to preserve the nation’s independence from its greedy Communist superpower neighbor.
“Mr. President, do you have a reaction to the Taiwan election?” a reporter asked.
“We do not support independence,” Biden mumbled.
He did not congratulate Taiwan’s new president-elect because that would offend China.
In December, Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping told Biden at a San Francisco summit that the ChiComs were preparing to take Taiwan, but did not have an exact timetable yet. During the summit, China demanded that Biden issue a statement in favor of “peaceful reunification” and against the continuation of Taiwanese independence from the Communist dictatorship.
Biden has given Xi half of what he wanted. The other half is being decided behind the scenes.
Taiwan is waiting on a backlog of $19 billion in weapons from sales mostly made during the Trump administration. Those weapons can make the difference between a Chinese invasion and peace. But the Biden administration has continued delaying the delivery of those weapons.
In 2019, the Trump administration approved a $2.2 billion sale of M1A2 tanks. Those tanks were supposed to have been delivered in 2022, but the Biden administration instead diverted them to Ukraine. Unlike Taiwan, Ukraine wasn’t paying for the tanks, but went to the front of the line anyway because the Biden administration saw it as a bigger priority than taking on China.
After being denied the right to buy F-22 and F-35 jets, Taiwan was allowed to buy $8 billion worth of F-16 jets. Those were supposed to be delivered in 2023, they’ve since slipped to 2024. The jets, inadequate as they are, are crucial at a time when Communist China has been conducting non-stop penetrations into the Republic of China’s airspace to wear down its aircraft.
A $2 billion deal for 400 Harpoon anti ship missiles, some of the most crucial defensive weapons the Republic of China needs, was signed in 2020 with delivery scheduled for 2029.
The weapons orders were supposed to deter a Chinese Communist invasion, but the delays have instead made it more likely. Xi’s warning to Biden reflects the window before weapons deliveries are likely to occur and the outcome of the upcoming American presidential election.
Beijing is most likely to strike when Taiwan and America are at their most vulnerable.
Meanwhile the People’s Republic of China has been stirring up trouble from Ukraine to Gaza to the Red Sea in coordination with partners like Russia and Iran. Beijing is betting that the more demand there is for American weapons and forces around the world, the less likely we will be able to either supply the Taiwanese Republic of China or do anything to defend it from the PRC.
While Biden implicitly condemned the new president, the administration sent an unofficial delegation of two retired officials, Stephen Hadley, Bush’s NSA advisor, and James Steinberg, a former Deputy Secretary of State, to congratulate Taiwan’s new president and warn him to maintain the status quo and avoid any declarations of independence that might annoy Xi.
“The US would stand with its friend,” Hadley told Taiwan’s new leaders. It just won’t open an embassy, receive a delegation or send an official delegation to its “friend”.
Ever since the Nixon administration, the United States accepted China’s position on Taiwan.
Communist China claims that there will be peace as long as everyone goes along with its claim to Taiwan. When America adopted the “One China” position, we began pretending that a longtime ally with its own government, elections and military doesn’t exist anymore even while a good deal of our computer industry depends on its products and we aid in its defense.
American administrations have accepted the myth that the situation will remain peaceful unless Taiwan’s leaders upset China by asserting their political existence and independence. Expelled from the UN, Taiwan has also lost the vast majority of its allies and international recognition.
Rather than reversing the trend, the Biden administration focuses on an impossible status quo.
Xi made it clear to Biden during their meeting in San Francisco that the ChiCom regime intends to take Taiwan. The only question is when it will do it and how it intends to make it happen. Xi, like other Communist China dictators, claimed that Taiwan’s diplomatic moves and outside support would be the trigger for any invasion. This is the same false claim that the Communist Chinese regime has been spreading for generations in order to isolate Taiwan, weaken its nationalistic movements and leave it ripe for either an invasion or a takeover.
The ChiCims would prefer to avoid a military confrontation and will tell any lie to do it.
Beijing promised that Hong Kong would retain its democratic elections and its civil rights. Then it began tightening the noose and when protests broke out in response, it violated all of its promises and ended the lie of “One Country, Two Systems” that had been at the center of its sales pitch for reunification not only for Hong Kong, but also Taiwan.
There is no such thing as “One Country, Two Systems”. One China means Communism.
Or as Xi recently put it in his message to the dictatorship’s security apparatus, to “uphold the absolute leadership” of the Communist Party. Xi would like to extend that “absolute leadership” and his own personal empire to the Republic of China as he already extended it to Hong Kong.
The plot is the same in Hong Kong, Taiwan or America. In all three places Beijing has used its commercial power to corrupt elites and oligarchs, to make them dependent on it for their wealth and to condition them to promote kowtowing to the Communist Party over their own interests.
Mass migration from China has sped along the corruption of Taiwan as well as western nations.
The Communist regime has spent generations on its program to subvert not only Taiwan, but the United States of America. Many of the pro-Hamas rioters rampaging around New York City are actually run out of China. And China’s tentacles have extended into America’s political establishment entangling everyone from Joe Biden’s son to George W. Bush’s brother.
In the Red Sea, vessels that want to avoid Iranian-backed Houthi attacks now flag themselves as “All Chinese”. China expects its future grain exports from Ukraine to come through Russia. And it intends to take over Taiwan in one way or another. How soon it will act is up to Biden.
Biden has shown weakness and he has betrayed American allies while failing to stand up to our enemies. That’s why our foes are emboldened and our allies are fighting for their lives.
And after every disaster, Biden continues doubling down on the same disastrous policies.
This isn’t incompetence: it’s treason.
China adopting a western style Taiwan LOL, LOL, LOL……..you mean kinda like Hong Kong
Yes that’s why we arm them to the teeth militarily. 🙄
Owen-you are smarter than the average bear.
Colin Powell: “you break it you own it” (Iraq/Viet Nam/ Afghanistan/Lybia). We own S. Korea/Taiwan/Saudi Arabia/Israel-all prosperous but would collapse without our ‘ownership’. Saudis are more disgusting than the Taiwan.
Biden chickening-out should be a warning to our ‘allies’ not to depend too much on the US as things could change rapidly, not just every 4 years.
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people”
Declaration of Independence
“I[King George III] wish you Sir[John Adams], to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have done nothing in the late Contest, but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the Duty which I owed to my People. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the Separation, but the Separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power. . . let the Circumstances of Language; Religion and Blood have their natural and full Effect.”
King George III
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=19
It seems that self-determination is good for everyone except the Taiwanese.
The status of the island has been in dispute since the early 20th century when it was controlled by the Japanese and the U.S. had a separate consulate there. The diplomatic relations between the U.S. and "Japanese Taiwan" ended when the U.S. declared war on Japan in 1941. It's been a diplomatic mess ever since, and the U.S. has always made a point of treading carefully about the legal and diplomatic status of Taiwan.
The Taiwanese were self governing, until Chiang Kai Shek invaded (because he was thrown out of his own country by the country’s people, who were supporting Mao Zedong). Chiang arrived and massacred the local Taiwanese population to put his own senior military in charge of the gov’t, which they arranged to retain for their children for 50 yrs.
There is no Republic of China. There is only murderous scum who could not win the support of their own populace.
There must be something in the water up in Canada...Trudeau has it too.
I would point out that no President since Nixon ever changed that “one China” policy.
No we haven’t tread lightly. As a thank you to Chiang Kai Shek who sided with us in WW11 We formed the Sino American Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan which went into effect in 1955. It called for the US to militarily aid Taiwan if China attempted to take it by force. The treaty was arguably unconstitutionally ended by Carter in 1979. The Supreme Court just let it slide but another agreement was formed which stops just short of mi!Italy intervention and is still in effect today and yes we arm Taiwan to the teeth then say we support a peaceful reunification. Its called playing Panda Face.
China was a basket case and Nixon caused some degree of political instability here.
Since then, Elite Capture, especially of the DemonRat Party, has forced us to act favorably towards China.
One more reason to vote Trump.
Dan’l drops the ‘T’ word.
Please cite the provision of that treaty where this is stated.
That Treaty was signed based on the understanding that from a legal and diplomatic standpoint, “Taiwan” and “China” were one and the same.
The treaty was de facto terminated by the U.S. once we formally recognized the People’s Republic of China as the “official” China.
I cited the treaty. Now I have to dissect it for you? I thought you were the big expert. Read at yourself.
You’re welcome.
Not one Biden policy has been bad for China. It is very clear he is either still on their payroll or so deep in debt to them that his country is being sold out to repay the debt.
Ping
And, conversely, not one of Sloe Joe and The Hoe’s Administration’s “policies” have been GOOD for America!
LIEberals HATE America!
Sloe Joe and The Hoe and their entire Administration are LIEberals!
ERGO, Sloe Joe and The Hoe and their entire Administration HATE America!
Do you support Chicoms?
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