“ The US is trying to be nice with the PRC and restore things back to normal as quickly as possible, that means publicly acknowledging Taiwan is theirs.”
What are you talking about.
Your moniker red fits you.
What planet are you living on?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/politics/biden-china-g7.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/biden-town-hall-february/index.html
One of the first things this administration did: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58690974
Our political ruling class, is literally pursuing a rapid normalization of relations with the PRC.
It is only because it’s a bit of an eye sore, and a few folks in the US are playing opposition politics (rightfully so) is it difficult for this administration and our bureaucracy to go that course any faster than they are.
1.) PRC is where much of the US manufacturing base is located: GM, HP, Cisco, Dell, Amazon, Tesla... It is also a major market, second in volume only to us. The PRC has an economic value to us.
2.) Furthermore, the PRC has been engaging US media for years, in some cases owns some of them, and their state run media is available in the US. With lobbying firms, major campaign and party donations through their US based subsidiaries, the PRC has political influence.
3.) Finally, the PRC is a major military power, one we respect and are not really wanting to get tangled up with.
I’m not telling you that I agree with it. I’m just telling you that is what we’re doing. In politics, it sometimes happens where the political ruling class wants to go a different direction than the folks on the street. That is what you have with the PRC. Most average Americans know to varying degrees how bad the PRC is (there has been enough in our media over the years): forced abortions, organ harvesting without consent, internment camps, Tibet, Taiwan, oppression of religion (both Islam and Christianity), LGBTQIA+ rights, disappearances of political dissidents, one child policy in past, mass use of the death penalty, mass censorship, a single party communist regime, no EPA standards, no safety standards, child labor, forced labor...
However, our political class is influenced by those with the money, and they want things to be back to normal because we build and sell there.
All that “democracy, freedom, human rights, transparency, sovereignty, rule of law” babble is crap used to stir up the masses when convenient but we want nothing of it if it gets in the way of the all mighty dollar. Guess what George H. Bush supported in the same year tanks drove over pro-democracy students on Tienanmen square in 1989? PRC most favored trade status and WTO membership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/05/24/Bush-extends-favorable-trade-status-for-China/1903643521600/
Guess what Bill Clinton supported? Guess what George W. Bush supported? Guess what Obama supported? Guess what Biden Supports?
OK, let me explain it this way to you. A nation can be led by a despot king, that takes a US resident and journalist, and hacks him up alive (so that he sees his own dismemberment), in a fellow NATO nation, at the direction of the despot, and guess what we will do if he flew here tomorrow? We’d roll out the red carpet: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45812399 Money talks!
-YOU- might feel a certain way, but our government doesn’t agree as proven by their actions.