A group of House Republicans introduced a resolution last week that would urge European leaders to affirm support for Taiwan and follow the US on its policies related to the island.
The resolution was led by Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) and has received 30 Republican cosponsors, including Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), chairman of the new House committee on China. The legislation is a direct response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s warning that Europe should not follow the US into a conflict with China over Taiwan.
Miller slammed Macron in a statement on the resolution. “It is astonishing to me that the French president would even suggest siding with a communist nation over a democratic one. Our resolution asks our European friends a simple question: Do you side with Taiwan and democratic values, or with an aggressive communist power that threatens the world order?” he said.
In his statement on the bill, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), a cosponsor, said NATO countries must be involved in the Asia Pacific. “It is incumbent on all NATO members to strengthen their involvement with democratic partners in the Indo-Pacific to ensure safety and security in the region,” he said.
According to the text of the bill, the resolution would call for “trans-Atlantic” unity on Taiwan and encourage “North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to strengthen their engagement with partners in the Indo-Pacific.” It would also call on European leaders to “express support for maintaining the status quo in the Taiwan Strait and condemn any use or threat of use of force.”
The resolution comes as the US has taken unprecedented steps to increase military and diplomatic support for Taiwan, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s recent talks with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California. The meeting made McCarthy the highest-level US official to ever host a Taiwanese leader since Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979, and it provoked major Chinese military exercises around Taiwan.
Europe should tell us to kiss our own a–.
The French have always resisted the wants of the British empire in that part of the world going back to both of their colonial days. The US might be “in charge” today but this want to go their own way in part did not start with Macron nor Taiwan.
Besides I like these show-votes. They have all the impact of a “stern letter of concern” (another political favorite) but do ID neocons in a nice handy list of sponsors then the one comprised of those voting in favor.
You always find new ones that join the known neocon political hacks.
The Democrat ones are the most interesting since those folks used to antiwar but are sure bloodthirsty nowadays.
The neo-con or neo-liberal people whatever they are called, are a different generation , they are wealthy people without any character, they are nothing but trash.
Look at the deranged old man they picked to be president and they want to re- elect him? How sickening.
I’m more of the mind the American progressive movement is returning towards their love of authoritism with a heavy emphasis on the sort of tribalism that is borders on old fashioned socialistic “nationalism” of the sort that caused them to praise “the trains running on time” in Italy.
It is amazing how our language has been abused, freedom, democracy, progressive, liberal, conservative, social, all of these words don’t mean anymore what they used to mean. Whatever happened to Frank Luntz, he was the big mover of political communication, how to spin the language to fool the voters.
Frank Luntz and his focus groups broke every rule I was taught in college on how to conduct
research focus groups.
He led them to his desired answers by using leaders within the groups and by the public nature of being on tv and the various pressures that entailed.
Luntz is a neocon hack used to push desired narratives.
I don’t think we ever had a real progressive movement. The language is being abused by politicians for propaganda purposes, to put on a political spin on every issue. The gun lobby’s spin on the second amendment by itself is political genius, guns don’t kill, people kill, maybe even more so. I don’t think anyone can beat that little jewel.
You can even revisit how the Progressive movement treated WW1.
Those voices who were prominent prior to the war and argued a “antiwar” position were deemed isolationists (a very bad word of the time) and had Wilson calling some German agents or the equally evil radicals of the Russian kind.
The so-called progressive movement turned war-like with their support of that war and their hubris created their pre-UN collaboration that got the next war going as the first one ended (in some ways).
American politicians are insane, without character, without integrity and decency, just a POS. Their values are BS and nothing else.
congress-critter: “It is astonishing to me that the French president would even suggest siding with a communist nation over a democratic one.”
Then why has communist Vietnam been granted the most favored nation (MFN) status?
So much stupidity leaves one speechless. Are Americans so stupid, so uneducated to tolerate so much stupidity in congress????
Do the idiots in congress know that France is a nation on another continent with national, French interests? Do they even know there are nations on other continents?
First of all, China is emphatically not Communist, not even Socialist. Rather its a hybrid of state capitalism and private capitalism, same as the US. Only difference is that in China the state capitalist sector has the high hand and it provides for the commonwealth. Clearly the US elite can’t tolerate such gross unorthodoxy.
I detest Macron. But damn it if this Buckeye Republican House excrement representative doesn’t make him look like a wise sage. Its amazing how provincial this idiot comes across.
Republicans Demand Europe Falls in Line on Taiwan
i wonder how far away is Europe from Taiwan.
edit) = 5,485 miles between Europe and Taiwan.
“hey you stupid Europeans, you do what I say or else I will sanction your punk-asses”
…….. uncle sam
The US is replacing the Pacific with the Atlantic, that will take care of that little problem. All the Pacific water is needed on the moon to make living possible for our elite like Nuland and the Kagan clan.
transporting the Pacific Ocean to the moon so that the elites can wallow in their elite mud-baths
The Germans have at least one party, the Alternative fuer Deutschland, AfD, to speak up for the people, we need a third party too, an Alternative for USA, AfUS. We need it as much as Germany and all NATO members, we need people in congress standing up and telling the establishment and the MIC to go to hell, before the idiots start dropping nuclear bombs.
There will never be a significant third party in the US. Ralph Nader wrote a book about it– “Crashing the Party.” He calls the two parties “tweedledum and tweedledee.” He wasn’t even allowed to sit in the audience during the “debates.”
There will be when the great great depression comes, … maybe??
I would be happy if we had at least a functioning second party. We don’t even have that much.
What a worthless pile of attention-grabbing bullshit.