"I hold in my hand a piece of paper..."
Posted on 10/05/2021 5:35:49 PM PDT by ifinnegan
"I've spoken with Xi about Taiwan. We agree ... we'll abide by the Taiwan agreement," he said. "We made it clear that I don't think he should be doing anything other than abiding by the agreement."
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Quotes Biden about discussion he had with Xi Jinping.
What agreement is this senile old fraud talking about?
What can possibly be "the agreement" he's talking about that Xi Jinping should abide with? There's no "Taiwan agreement" that the U.S. and ChiComs would be parties to.
Joe’s eyes have wool, fully pulled over them. As usual.
Disturbingly weird statement out of nowhere. Warning! Warning!
What a relief. An announcement from two world leaders we can trust.
Biden doesn’t care what the truth is. He’s the ultimate politicians. Once he has taken the country for everything he can, he does not care what happens after.
Taiwan just needs to leave plates of General Tso’s Chicken on the beach.
The Chinese Soldiers will stop and eat General Tso’s Chicken.
They love General Tso’s Chicken.
Trump would have said you get those planes out of Taiwan’s ADZ or prepare for another $250b in tariffs plus more US Naval presence in the area. That along with more high tech weapons sales to Japan, India and Australia.
Xi agreed he would violently invade and subjugate the Taiwanese people and Joe agreed he would do absolutely nothing to stop it.
Where’s the transcript?
What Taiwan agreement?
Sick. Xi is about to “abide by our agreement” as much as the Taliban did by their agreement with Donald Trump.
Tell them to get out of the south china sea.
Free trade and sailors rights!!
The true victims will be the Chinese people, but that won’t stop the chicoms from screwing things up beyond recovery.
Yeah this is the real Code Red.
Military provisions
See also: List of US arms sales to Taiwan
The Taiwan Relations Act does not guarantee the U.S. will intervene militarily if the PRC attacks or invades Taiwan nor does it relinquish it, as its primary purpose is to ensure the US’s Taiwan policy will not be changed unilaterally by the president and ensure any decision to defend Taiwan will be made with the consent of Congress. The act states that “the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capabilities”. However, the decision about the nature and quantity of defense services that America will provide to Taiwan is to be determined by the President and Congress. America’s policy has been called “strategic ambiguity”, and it is designed to dissuade Taiwan from a unilateral declaration of independence, and to dissuade the PRC from unilaterally unifying Taiwan with the PRC.[citation needed]
The act further stipulates that the United States will “consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States”.
The act requires the United States to have a policy “to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character”, and “to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan.” Successive U.S. administrations have sold arms to Taiwan in compliance with the Taiwan Relations Act despite demands from the PRC that the U.S. follow the legally non-binding Three Joint Communiques and the U.S. government’s proclaimed One-China policy (which differs from the PRC’s interpretation of its one-China principle)
It’s the “three Gorges” dam , not seven, but what the heck. This is free republic 2021 version.
Looks like we have Peace In Our Time. Wonder what the Big Guy is making off this one.
People, you’re not going to like this.
Go spend some time reading the Taiwan history from WWII onwards.
Do not presume these are some freedom loving people yearning for democracy this and that.
That’s not what goes on there. The 1949 event of Chiang Kai Shek losing a civil war on mainland China and fleeing to Taiwan. Defined the government of Taiwan for decades upon decades, meaning his troops and their children were plugged into govt positions and have dominated Taiwan for 40ish years. Only in the very recent past has there been any dilution of influence of the families that fled in 1949.
Taiwan had a native population at that time. It was erased by the people who arrived to take over everything.
Hate to say this, but they deserve very little support.
That's why the Chi-coms had to get rid of President Trump whatever way they could. And they did it with the help of both Congressional Democrats and Republicans.
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