Last week, President Biden set out a new position on Taiwan, reversing years of US ambiguity by saying he absolutely would go to war with China over the island. Since then, officials have been looking to dial that back.
The talk has been that Biden’s statement was a “gaffe,” and officials are now trying to revise that by insisting US policy has not changed, in spite of Biden’s comments being a very direct change from the status quo.
Biden seemed to want to get out in front of tensions between China and Taiwan, but in committing the US explicitly to such a war, many warn that he is making military confrontation more likely. This was doubly the case when China responded by saying their position isn’t going to change.
Neither side is interested in talks or compromises, and the administration now seems to want to avoid further talk of Biden’s position by restoring some measure of ambiguity by offering contradictory statements on the matter. At best, that would put the US back in a position that Biden felt he needed to revise in the first place.
It isn’t about the internal doubts of Taiwan, but concerns with the reaction in Pacific nations — China’s own response, along with concerns about South Korea and other regional powers that the US is threatening stability.
Biden’s handlers let him off the leash. Now they have to scramble to make up for his F. up. This whole presidency is one disaster after another.
He left Afghanistan. He’s already one up on Bush, Obama and Trump.
Trump was doing it too.
No he wasn’t. Fiona Hill told him who runs the Foreign Policy. Unfortunately, there is no Fiona Hill in the White House.
Yes he was. At least the rad Dems say it was all Trump’s plan that was negotiated with the Taliban and trying to blame him for bungled exit.
Indeed he was. But if he thought the only way out was going to be some far fetched “clean” exit, then it’s debatable whether he would have carried out his plan. Like I have said earlier, Trump and Biden should have been given a ticker tape parade for ending the war. But instead we get the blame game from both these old bastards. Man, I wish they would both just go away.
Donald Trump Is First President Since Jimmy Carter Not to Enter U.S. Troops Into New Conflict
BY BRENDAN COLE ON 11/25/20 AT 10:58 AM EST Newsweek.
And I’d bet he dropped a tad few more bombs than Carter did. Maybe someday people won’t think that just participating, and even “surging”, in ongoing wars isn’t something to write home about. Not to mention the sanctions, advocate of torture, advocate of locking people up without charges(GITMO), Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Abraham accords, the military budget, the space force just to name a few. Add to that his over the top narcissism and his non stop attacks on everybody from Lebron James to Bubba Wallace and I just don’t get how ANYONE can back that asshole.
I might agree with you except the warranted attacked on LeBronnie, the big mouth who should stick with bouncing a ball. BTW where’s all that “strength thru diversity” on the NBA basketball courts?
I don’t know why anyone could back all the other assholes, especially warmonger #1 his whole career, Joe Robinette Biden. Probably getting revenge on the world for that given middle name.
He did say “Wouldn’t it be better to get along with Russia” and according to the deep state Intel agencies/DOD etc., that was his cardinal sin. That’s probably why they offed Kennedy too.
As a result, in order to have any chance at political survival he had to act somewhat as the “tough guy” or he would have been deserted also by every one of the RINOs, e.g., neocon warmongers. Schumer had it right.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this,” Schumer said in a Jan. 3 MSNBC interview.
When 99% of the US Congress is a rubber stamp for Israel just who on the political horizon would change that policy, without crossing that intel community?
Furthermore it was about time someone called out the politically left warmongering media.
I could have picked dozens of others besides Lebron James. I didn’t pick him for any particular reason other than to point out Trump’s constant attacks.
I agree. Biden is as big of an asshole as Trump. Clinton was as big of an asshole as Trump. That’s why I vote third party.
Saying we should get along with Russia while treating them worse than Obama seems like an odd way of attempting to get along. And please don’t tell me about him getting offed. They didn’t off Obama even after his “reset” with Russia idea that the republicans balked at furiously BTW. Trump easily could have maintained the status quo but he went beyond that.
And there is no doubt that Israel has control over the vast majority of congress but Trump went well beyond what his predecessors were willing to do. He gifted them like no other.
I’m not defending Biden or anyone else. Trump was terrible and will be terrible again. People saying they’d prefer him based on him being the better of two evils is almost understandable thing but to honestly say he was anything but a narcissistic assclown for four years is just denying reality.
He had four years. He didn’t do it. And I believe he would have “bombed the shit” out of the Taliban based on what came out of his mouth.
Trump:
“The Taliban was on hold,” he said. “I dealt with the top guy Abdul and there was nothing he was going to be doing with us, and all of a sudden we have a rigged election and all of a sudden we flee Afghanistan. And that’s why I’m saying what timing, what horrible timing, the 20th anniversary [of Sept. 11] and I watched the speeches and not one person spoke about the fact that three days ago, we fled Afghanistan and we left Americans behind and others to die.”
More Trump:
“I spoke to, and sort of the known head, but nobody was sure, but now I’m sure, and I was sure then when I was speaking to him,” said Trump. “I say … you will be hit harder than any country and any person has ever been hit in world history. And we will start with the exact location and the exact town, and it’s right here. And I believe I repeated the name of his town. That will be the first place that we start. And I won’t be able to speak to you anymore after that, and isn’t that a very sad thing? But that is the story.”
He even seemed to threaten them with nukes:
“And then he asked me one question, and I’d rather not repeat that question, because it’s a very scary question,” said Trump. “But he asked me one question, and I gave him the answer yes.”
Based on that I question how he would have reacted the the suicide bombing. And contrary to all those who somehow think violence could have been avoided during any withdrawal, the suicide bombing would have happened regardless who was president. either that or the entire region would have had to be cleared out beforehand which would have resulted in even more deaths.
Not at all. The US was just done with nation building there. CIA action is still in high gear (ISIS-K) and targeting China and Iran.
Which is still one up on Bush, Obama and Trump.
The policy of maintaining a US Taiwan puppet is a disaster from the start.
Ever since Nixon/Kissinger, Taiwan has been a bargaining chip/pawn for our dealings with China.
Many reports are starting to blame China for escalations! It is absurd. Ever since 50 years ago US and UN recognized China as UN member and Security Council member — it was clear that there is inly one China.
Now that US has so casually abandoned the one China policy — is it China that is to blame for reacting?
China was not going to back down, as expected. So many commentators are really annoyed at China for the lack of finesse — and letting us have our way.
With that not happening, and with the combat exercises of Chinese ad Russian navies just wrapping up in the Far East, it is time to redefine the absurdity. Unnecessary one.
The problem is trustworthiness. Not that Biden is an exception. Just continuing the tradition.
Time to get serious so our word will mean something.
However, AUKYS is here to stay — and our allies Japan and South Korea, including would be ally India, know that destabilizing is baked into AUKUS cake,
And will have to rethink their positions. Is US a factor of stability or instability in the region?
Will AUKUS assure them as stabilizing force against China — or destabilizing to region’s economies and trade? Will they perceive US now a threat and start triangulation with China and Russia?
but bilde bbuck betta??? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9c8de4239b191f9f81d8030b87af8151200f5c5ea9ae33b0b4ca4a3f880fec3c.jpg
This is FAR more dangerous than people realize.
China has made clear since 1949 Taiwan is part of China and WILL reintegrate one day.
By force or diplomacy, Taiwan will come back. That is 100% guaranteed as China considers losing such an important province to US meddling during their civil war an existential threat. Plus, it is now home to one of the few technological centers currently able to compete with China’s new and upcoming world class computer chip plants.
If the island province remains defiant and the US has now promised to defend it in any secessionist effort, a military conflict of some size is now probable.
If China sees ANY actual tangible assistance to Taiwan of a military nature, they will immediately retake the island before the US can move too many troops and assets into place.
And not hard to imagine how the populations of neighboring US allies, Japan, S. Korea -in the event fated to be vaporized instantly- might feel about such talk. Biden’s senile macho bluster probably exposed the real policy, i.e., the Taiwan trip-wire strategy; but you never say it out loud. That’s what “top secret” is supposed to mean.
“If China sees ANY actual tangible assistance to Taiwan of a military nature”
What, like selling them weapons or sending troops to train theirs? That horse left the barn long ago.
The likely determinants of whether the current mainland regime will choose to invade and occupy Taiwan will be 1) the economic situation on the mainland and 2) the political situation on the mainland.
If there’s a need for a distraction due to either economic collapse or a viable challenge to the CCP regime, they might consider bogging themselves down in a nasty invasion/occupation. Otherwise, they’ll just continue to happily profit from being Taiwan’s largest trading partner.
Or, they could just take back what is theirs and they would not need to buy anything from Taiwan ever again.
Imagine someone stealing your land then building factories on it.
After that, having the gall to wonder why you aren’t grateful they let you buy products from those same factories. That is some serious chutzpah!
Taiwan has never been “theirs.” The CCP has never, for so much as one second, ruled it. Might they invade it and occupy it? Sure. Wars of aggression and conquest aren’t unheard of. But that’s all it would be. They have no special magical claim to it, and no amount of jaw-jacking will change that irrefutable fact of history and reality.
You are confusing a political party, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with an entire country (People’s Republic of China).
Biden may president and the Democrats control Congress, but the Democrats do not “own” the country.
But the CCP does rule China, and even Taiwan [officially the Republic of China (ROC)] government admits the island is a part of China. Therefore, the CCP should rule Taiwan.
Is this you?
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Strange I must explain these basic differences to a former Vice Presidential candidate.
I suppose Gary Johnson wasn’t the dimmest Libertarian candidate after all.
Yes, the CCP rules China.
And Taiwan has never been part of China.
It’s occasionally been invaded/conquered/occupied/ruled from China, but it’s also been invaded/conquered/occupied/ruled from the Netherlands, Japan, etc. too.
At the moment it is independent, self-ruling, and gives occasional lip service to being “part of China” in hopes of appeasing the CCP so as to put off being invaded/conquered/occupied/ruled from there yet again.
Presumably we agree on the main issue, which is whether the US regime should be involved, in any way, shape, manner, or form, in Taiwan’s relations with China. I don’t think it should.
But I don’t have to deny fact, reality, and history to reach that position. Apparently you do.
All new political parties, if governing, must then give up all areas never controlled by it. Maybe that’s why 3rd or 4th parties in the US are political victims of the two party monopoly, because just think of all those independence battles from Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rica, and even the Alaska territory.
….and vice versa insofar as trade is concerned. China is Taiwan’s largest trading partner, accounting for 26.3 percent of total trade and 22.2 percent of Taiwan’s imports in 2020.
Status quo is win win that China and previously Taiwan were content with.
Although Taiwan is China’s 6th largest trading partner.
Dial it all the way back. What American thinks their son or daughter’s life is worth our keeping China from having its historical province? If you read 2oth Century history Taiwan was set up as a narco state by heroin runner Chiang Kai Shek. After the war the US wanted China to absorb Taiwan to prevent interference with China relations. They already took Hainan and were set to take Taiwan. Then USSR invaded Korea and changed the landscape. But the idea is still sound. Give Taiwan back and quit warring with China.
This is just “wolf talk” – said just for effect – not intended to really convey anything serious. America is not going to go to war with China – war with China would violate the major rule of our MIC – which is “Do Not Go to WAR with Any Power Capable of Fighting Back” – which China surely can. We would be more likely to go to war with Taiwan than China. War with China would encompass a lot of troop deaths – which would kill our MIC, because troop deaths ruin a sense of smug and prideful patriotism.
Since Biden took office, and before, we’ve had one swinging dick after another lining up to tell us that China is our number one threat. And now the great senile one sticks his foot in his mouth and says what all those idiots have basically been encouraging him to say along and he’s taking shit for it. That rapidly declining mind must really be confused. Where’s Donald, and that sharp mind that can remember 5 words in a row, when you need him?
Ha, it must really be a clown show in DC for people to miss Donald Trump.