Taiwan expressed thanks and China was upset on Wednesday after Donald Trump signed into law legislation requiring the U.S. State Department to regularly review and update guidelines on how the United States officially interacts with Taipei.
The United States is Taiwan’s most important international backer despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties, and the issue is a constant source of irritation in Sino-U.S. relations given Beijing views the democratically-governed island as its own.
Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung told reporters more frequent reviews of the guidelines would allow Taiwanese officials into federal agencies for meetings, for example, though the legislation does not make explicit mention of this.
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said China firmly opposes any form of official contact between the United States and “the Taiwan region of China”.
It’s just so odd to me. Like, the historical parallel here would be if during the US civil War the Confederate army retreated to the Florida Keys and the Union was never able to conquer them due to other international conflicts.
So for 30 years the Confederates rule there with slavery and a dictatorship over the people. All the while they keep calling themselves “The real America”
The “Keys” see progress eventually following a less hostile relationship with the Union and have their dictatorship replaced by a more liberal form. A normalizing could occur and diplomatic relations between the Keys and the rest of America could occur peacefully and under the wishes of the existing people of the Keys.
BUT, for some reason some other country on the other side of the world has been establishing military alliances and bases near the Keys. They are “allies” with the Keys but on paper acknowledge the Union as the “real America”.
Say what you want about China today. But, what the fuck is America even doing here? They don’t reduce tensions with Taiwan or “protect it”. They don’t care about democracy. They literally supported its fascist leaders for decades. America’s hostile invasion of Korea to support fascist over communist is the entire reason that Taiwan was never captured by mainland China during their civil war. They did not want to risk conflict with the Western state that was doing everything to install loyal dictators in Korea and their neighbors.
China can have bad intentions and not give the people of Taiwan their now rightful self determination. I’m not saying that isn’t true. But, holy shit, Americans just eat up the “we have to be a part of ever conflict ever”. Like, can we just let that play out? We’re clearly not interested in Taiwan because we care about “freedom”. Did we learn nothing from the middle east?
That is not why the US cares about it. The US will abandon them (or bomb them) if it’s beneficial to US oligarchs to do so. Can we get some healthcare and stop worrying about what China does in its own backyard?
To be an enemy of the US is dangerous. To be an ally of the US is fatal.
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Taiwan is a representative democracy now, not a dictatorship.
I think a slightly better analogy, if you’re serious, would be the relationship of the U.S. and Cuba (to make you feel better, I’ll go along with your propaganda and pretend that the U.S. is the only bad guy in the world).
So, China and Taiwan are like if the U.S. tried to control Cuba and failed, and then some other country from the other side of the world (just for example, let’s suggest it was Russia), stepped in to prop up and protect Cuba.
So, can you see how maybe what would be best for everyone is that the Cubans should get to decide on their own how they are governed? Much like the people of Taiwan, through their representative democracy, should be able to tell China to piss off already.
Your analogy is completely off. Cuba wasn’t ever historically a part of the US. Did not participate in a civil war within the US.
I think you need to read up on your history before you try to make a “better analogy”. I used the American civil war as an example because Americans seem to be completely ignorant to the fact that Taiwan exists as separate from mainland China because of a civil war.
Cuba literally liberated itself from a US supported dictatorship. The US did invade Cuba during the bay of pigs though. China has literally never even attacked Taiwan though. So, it’s really not at all compareable. Taiwan exist today as separate from China because the losing side of a civil war retreated there.
China in the 1950s absolutely would have every right to invade Taiwan and overthrow the western supported dictatorship that existed there. It would literally be liberating it’s own people.
The issue is that they didn’t; the people there were forced for decades to live under a puppet dictatorship of the west due to US support.
But, again, we are in this situation in the first place because of US global interests. For some reason no one can answer why the best solution is not for the US to stop trying to control and maintain influence over countries half way across the world?
Yeah, it was a bullshit analogy.
Just like yours.
I thought that’s what we were doing.
Well, explain in what what way my analogy was bull shit then. Because it’s not perfect, but creating a hypothetical analogy based around America is sometimes the only way to get Westerners to understand something.
But, you, trying to equate the real bay of pigs invasion to an invasion of Taiwan that was dumb. It just showed you don’t know the history of the Chinese civil war (the entire point of my analogy in the first place) or the history of Cuba.
But, go ahead. I’m waiting for you to explain why my hypothetical analogy is bull shit. I explained why yours was.
And you still haven’t answered why you want the US involved with defending Taiwan. That really worked out well for Ukraine. Fighting for years so we could sell them weapons, get their men killed, and then abandon them once we found a new war to start.
Did the US reject your prom invite or something?
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