Posted on 07/17/2024 5:15:24 AM PDT by sam_whiskey
Donald Trump has cast doubt over whether as U.S. president he would defend Taiwan if China were to invade the self-governed island Beijing views as part of its territory.
"Taiwan is 9,500 miles away," the former president told Bloomberg, "it's 68 miles away from China."
China's long-ruling Communist Party claims Taiwan as its own but has never ruled there since coming to power in Beijing in 1949. Taipei rejects its neighbor's assertions.
The GOP nominee for the U.S. presidential election appeared to suggest that Taiwan should pay the U.S. for protection, telling the outlet: "I don't think we're any different from an insurance policy."
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He might even disable the factories if that were to happen. Give China a brick of a country.
We have a multimillion man army too now, they just came over the border. We can tell them “more good stuff attacking china”....
Good point.
I take nothing Trump says literally, especially statements about adversaries. Everything is posturing for future negotiations.
It is Newsweek. How many years has it been since this was not a tool of the MSM propaganda stream?
BTW, if anything happened to shut down TSMC, the Chinese economy would come to a full stop. That’s how dependent the Chinese economy is on the chip business and TSMC.
A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
Taiwan is not worth yet another full blown war. An armed conflict with China is sheer stupidity on a massive scale.
How about Diplomacy? How about developing what the people want? Trade, Commerce, Prosperity and Peace for all. Trump can make it happen.
The US’s forever wars must end. Case in point: back in Gorbachev’s time, Russia’s request to join NATO was rejected, and here we are.
You do not give away our manufacturing base to friends who won’t protect themselves.
Charging them will give them skin in the game. Heard it somewhere.
I don’t think so.
Russia’s request to join NATO was rejected
Why would you let the fox in the henhouse..even if he promised to be “good”?
He’s saying he wouldn’t if they don’t pay. That said, I don’t think either Trump or Biden would defend Taiwan. Making them pay and then failing to defend them would not be a good idea.
Trump is negotiating to get more for the US out of it, and in any negotiation to get what you want you have to appear more ready to walk away than the other person.
Misleading article.
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