It looks like the US backing away from open support for Taiwan independence. I suspect that the growing recognition that the US would lose a war with China is a factor as well as the politics within Taiwan.
I’m from the government and I’ve got a great idea. Let’s send our manufacturing over to China. Then…if a war should happen, their war machine building capability has increased and ours has diminished. Then…as a distraction, while they’re polluting at levels much, much, much higher than if manufactured here…we can yell about man made global warming. I mean…if there really are 81 million Brandonites among us, they’ll be yelling the loudest…I’m sure.
I would not be surprised in the we see more examples of “President Biden does not speak for the White House.”
Biden has said that the US would defend Taiwan, and Taiwan independence is up to the people of Taiwan.
Is there any way they are not putting remote off switches on that solar crap they’re selling us?
I would.
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Taxes and tariffs on ChiCom goods was the Trump doctrine. J’Biden lifted that so as to not disrupt his family’s corrupt cash flow. (IMHO)
The US doesn’t need to risk a costly war with the communist regime in China. Disrupting their economy
has the potential to do more damage. Again, IMHO
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The truth is still the truth no matter who gets their feelings hurt.
When did that happen?
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Oops, I’m admittedly misinformed.
The Trump era tariffs are currently “under review”
I stand corrected…
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The US will spend $778B this year on our military.
China will spend a estimated $252B this year on their military.
Nuff said.
The huge US defense budget is simply a monument to corruption and inefficiency.
Four decades of offshoring mean that China’s steel production is ten times that of the US. China’s shipbuilding capacity is 50 times greater. US defense contractors rely on many components from China. Waging war in the Pacific only makes sense if the objective is the destruction of the US.
Fortunately, a pro-China party is moving up in the polls in Taiwan. If the choice is a Ukraine-style war or a peaceful resolution, Taiwan’s voters are choosing peace. There are no US-backed neo-Nazi paramilitaries to enforce the dictates from Washington, so peace has a real chance.
If there is one thing that history has taught us is the the USA can turn on production when the need arises.
I have been dealing with China since the 1970’s. Some times with party members. And I can assure you that China has no impressions of military superiority.
do you post anything besides propaganda?
Those days are over.
That you know about. The actual number is much higher.
The Chinese aren’t trying to fight without casualties.
The US rapidly shifted production from civilian to war use in WW2 and became the arsenal of democracy. Doing something like that now is no longer since industry has left the US and the rest of the world has industrialized tremendously. This is not 1941.
Since the 1980s, the US has shut down heavy industry and manufacturing plants and turned to imports for manufactured goods. Meanwhile China has grown massively. China was not even on the top-20 list of steel producers in 1967. Now it has almost half of the world production.
As Obama said, “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to ■■■■ things up”. Biden is back to name-calling after Blinken’s visit that attempted to reassure China.
