It's also the latest example that shows that Trump can only remember the conversation from the last person he talked to. If he visited Taiwan, immediately afterwards he would be saying the exact opposite. He's a fucking moron and has no capacity for self-thought in any way. He just blindly restates what somebody told him.

Yep, Xi manipulated rump and now US isn’t going to protect Taiwan anymore. WTF

I think we’re in the “how long for Taiwan to develop a nuke” waiting room right now.

Keep in mind taiwan is staunchly conservative.

Taiwan has been backing trump and I’m even suspecting taking part in the voting influence as they really believed he was the only president capable of looking after them and confronting China. They threw all their bets at him out of fear of China.

If you talked to anyone from taiwan in the past several years they couldn’t lick his ass enough. Even if you were to tell them bold faced he’s a racist pedo and they wouldn’t shut up about the US protecting their country and who cares if he raped little girls and send brown people to die so long as they are protected by him.

Take it from someone who’s been talking to conservative relatives in taiwan. It’s been like screaming into the wind. And they even threatened me in 2023 that every country is going conservative and I should just watch out. And they did this with much smirking. They are having their own leapard ate my face moment.

I feel bad for them in the same way I feel bad for MAGAs for voting for him while ignoring all the blatant racism.

Don't discount SK, Japan, ANZ

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Xi cooked Donny like orange chicken. And Donny will throw Taiwan under the take out truck.

Cuba would enter the chat, but they have no electricity to log in with, because of the recent escalation of the US bullying them.

I don't like the situation but that's not what it is. It's a civil war that never ended.

China would ask "why not?" and "who's gonna stop us?"

I you sre backed by strong nations than you are not weak

China’s been a year away from attacking Taiwan for as long as:

• Iran’s been six months from building a nuclear weapon
• nuclear fusion reactors have been 30 years away

Just 72 more hours bro

Kind of... the issue is conflicts like this are very costly and damaging to the economy.

Thankfully so far China has behaved a bit more rationally than belligerent states like the USA and Russia who are willing to do considerable damage to their own and world economies in an attempt to strengthen their military position. Which makes little sense in a mostly peaceful era. Economic and diplomatic power are more important in the long term, and they're trading that away.

So I predict they will not do it even though you're right that they theoretically could because the smart move is to keep growing your power base. China could be in a class of its own someday if they are smart enough, and then they'll be able to force Taiwanese submission without even invading.

Yeah Taiwan would do better on it's own. Having the incompetent US military and it's enshitified tech bro equipment around is a major liability.