More stupid U.S. escalation with China over Taiwan

[Roudy]

Sounds like China doesn't recognize the Right of Self Determination, and is willing to fight a war over it.

The way we have traded with them, growing their military potential, was really stupid.

We should stop that immediately.

But Biden will do as Xi says, otherwise they’ll spill the beans on the Biden crime family and all the treason they’ve committed.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

And also the Taiwan Relations Act is the US law for one China policy. So to break one China policy by recognize Taiwan as an independent country or to form a formal diplomatic tie is to break its own law.

That would be awful!!!

What's the punishment for breaking that law?

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

CNN has just reported its sources indicate Pelosi will go to Taiwan,..

Meanwhile, Niall Ferguson, the famous contrarian conservative British historian who worked as foreign advisor to John McCain and called himself “a fully paid-up member of the neo-imperialist gang" wrote a Bloomberg guest editorial today that speculated on how Trump’s foreign policy might differ from Biden on Taiwan. Excerpts here:

According to former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s memoir, Trump liked to point to the tip of one of his Sharpies and say, “This is Taiwan,” then point to the Resolute desk in the Oval Office and say, “This is China.”

“Taiwan is like two feet from China,” Trump told one Republican senator. “We are 8,000 miles away. If they invade, there isn’t a f***ing thing we can do about it.”

Trump added: “Taiwan will be next. You won’t have any computer chips. They’ll blow them off the face of the earth.” …

We’d all better hope — Nancy Pelosi, especially — that they don’t turn out to be prophetic.

 

[Independent thinker]

Pelosi’s big trip to Taiwan draws ire from China — and White House
The critics are right, a visit from such a high ranking official would be a serious mistake and the president should ask her to cancel it.

President Biden also seemed to question the wisdom of the trip, but he presented the objection to Pelosi’s visit as coming from military officials rather than directly from him. “The military thinks that it’s not a good idea right now,” Biden said on Wednesday in response to a reporter’s question.

In this case, the military is right. While there is an understandable desire to show support for Taiwan in response to increasing tensions with China, Pelosi’s visit would be a serious mistake that would likely make things worse. Sending one of the highest-ranking U.S. officials to Taiwan is bound to be very provocative, and it would expose Taiwan to additional risks for the sake of nothing more important than a glorified photo op.


The report of Pelosi’s planned visit also comes in the wake of other visits to Taiwan by former top officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Secretary of Defense Mike Esper. During his visit, Esper called for an end to U.S. “strategic ambiguity.” Coming so soon after Esper’s remarks, a Pelosi visit would likely be interpreted as another step in the direction of making an explicit U.S. commitment to Taiwan’s defense.

Given that the president already erroneously declared in May that the U.S. has a commitment to fight for Taiwan, there is considerable confusion about the Biden administration’s policy on this question. The apparent lack of coordination between Biden and Pelosi over the August visit has only added to that confusion.

Pelosi's big trip to Taiwan draws ire from China — and White House

The critics are right, a visit from such a high ranking official would be a serious mistake and the president should ask her to cancel it.

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They've backed themselves into a corner that they didn't have to be in.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Pelosi just seen flying over Taiwan …

 

[Burgermeister]

I don’t expect any intelligence from the Trumpian “peanut gallery” here, which sees the problem as totally partisan, being centered on Biden having “no balls.” The problem is with the bipartisan U.S drift toward repudiation of the “One China” commitments we made to China decades ago.

We may be heading straight toward a totally avoidable military conflict with China over Taiwan — that will make the world economic problems arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine seem almost insignificant by comparison.

Did you vote for Biden?

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Did you vote for Biden?

Yes, I did.

Come to think of it, that’s another reason I hate Trump — he made me do something I really, REALLY didn’t want to do!