Posted on 01/21/2022 11:09:16 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
Deterring Chinese aggression against Taiwan is realistic and must be the commitment of any U.S. leader who refuses to accept American decline. Americans agree. that China poses a serious threat to the United States, but there is disagreement about the ways China poses a problem and to what degree we can and should do something about it.
China’s economic coercion, censorship, theft, and pernicious efforts to make America more like China, or at least make Americans of the view that there is nothing wrong with the Chinese Communist way, are meant to help China exert greater influence over U.S. business, trade, speech, religious expression, travel, medicine, etc. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) snuffing out of liberties in Hong Kong and its domestic repression make perfectly clear what the CCP values and what behavior, speech, and thought they reward and punish.
China’s growing influence over U.S. culture, sports, and big business leaders will not simply fizzle out on its own. Stopping Chinese domination will require determined U.S. leadership. To do what, exactly? To untangle our countries’ financial interdependence, to create significant disincentives for Americans to bend to the CCP’s preferences and demands, to reshore critical manufacturing, to revitalize American education in research and technology, and to reassert U.S. sovereignty and promote and defend the American way of life.
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Ridiculous. China bought the US fair and square. Not Freepers of course, but they do own the Government, media, academia, and the military leadership. That’s more than enough.
Minor incursions are bound to happen. /s
Another day, another unlimited security guarantee.
Perhaps it would be easier to draw up a list of countries where our DC neocon governing elites would NOT be willing to go to war?
Just glad most Freepers aren’t handling our foreign policy. Sure give China Taiwan, Ukraine Bulgaria and Romania to Russia. What could go wrong? It won’t affect our economy, national security or natural resources.
What a great world it will be rubbing elbows with communist China, Imperial Russia and radical Iran. /s
will happen just like we prevented CCP from taking over MacaO and Hong Kong
(and USA’s SIllyCon Valley defense and electronics industries, and much of USA’s housing supply, and an increasing amount of prime USA agricultural acerage and food supply, plus of course dozens of USA”s “leading’ leftist politicians)
put simply, USA, at least the current administration, ain’t gonna do squat
Nuke them from space in advance.
Ask Brandon if an Incursion is OK
You ask for global empire abroad, but are outraged when you find the empire is full of corrupt officials, when they stamp on your rights, and imprison your ideological cohorts at home.
Good luck to you with that kind of thinking
OMG - I thought about it for a few seconds and realized you're right - any war would do but back to Taiwan...
None of us give a damn about Ukraine. It's a third world hellhole that stupidly paid off the Biden's and probably the Clintons... but not the rest of us. Our real problem is Taiwan. Our culture would collapse if China took over Taiwan and China stopped Taiwan factories from providing computer chips to the world. Let's keep our powder dry for the battle that really matters.
If we want to protect Taiwan the first step is to acknowledge it exists and have open diplomatic relations with them. Tell China to stuff the 1 China policy. If we do it others will follow. If we don’t do it (which we won’t) we are tacitly allowing to China to do whatever they want in Taiwan.
We are extremely short-sighted. Our government and corporate leaders allowed all these American-designed-and-started industries to go abroad, to squeeze out that last, extra dollar of debt-repayment, that extra dollar of stock-option, that extra dollar of yearly bonus and payoff before they head out the door.
Why do we "need" to do that?
You better watch out, the pitchfork toting FR Neocons won’t be pleased with your blasphemies. I was trying to make the same point awhile back and found myself crucified on a cross of Taiwanese chips. The neocons probably hate to have their argument cut out from under them by developments like this.
Oh, I see.
But Taiwan is not part of the United States.
What the heck, there won’t be that many elbows to rub after you neocons start WWIII over a Chinese dispute among Chinese that’s gone on for centuries. A dispute that has zero strategic value to America. That is, if you warmongers haven’t already gotten my grandchildren obliterated in vain defense of Kiev.
“If we want to protect Taiwan the first step is to acknowledge it exists and have open diplomatic relations with them. Tell China to stuff the 1 China policy. If we do it others will follow. If we don’t do it (which we won’t) we are tacitly allowing to China to do whatever they want in Taiwan.”
Exactly.
Trump and Pompeo had begun the process.
Taiwan is a major trading partner. It’s in our interests to keep it from being invaded by China. This would be far easier to accomplish than many here seem to think. China is in no way ready to invade Taiwan. And its victory is by no means assured. The Chinese wouldn’t be facing 3rd rate troops like we did at Normandy.
More idiocy from you.
Mole.
We did not even have the gonads to include Taiwan into the nations in the GATT.
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