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To: george76

How about offering to buy them for Taiwan? That would definitely set the cat among the pigeons given the French and German desire to sell a softening of anti-Chinese actions to Moscow and Beijing in exchange for more trade.


18 posted on 09/19/2021 12:43:56 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

Much better idea than arming more communists.


19 posted on 09/19/2021 12:47:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: pierrem15
How about offering to buy them for Taiwan? That would definitely set the cat among the pigeons given the French and German desire to sell a softening of anti-Chinese actions to Moscow and Beijing in exchange for more trade.

IIRC, a similar idea was suggested during the Bush 43 administration. Taiwan was disappointed, predictably.

54 posted on 09/19/2021 3:05:06 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: pierrem15

That’s the only idea that makes sense. But it’ll never happens because Joe Biden is a friend of the CCP.


55 posted on 09/19/2021 3:09:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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