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Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated in his New Year’s speech that Taiwan’s “reunification” with China is inevitable.

China has escalated military activity around Taiwan, including frequent incursions near the island and sanctions on U.S.-linked companies over arms sales to Taipei.

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te rejected Beijing's claims, stating Taiwan’s future can only be decided by its people.

Lai also criticized China’s restrictions on travel and education exchanges with Taiwan, calling for dignified, reciprocal relations based on goodwill and equality.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Now Trump is going to be in power and this cunt will happily let China take over Taiwan.

Will he? Trump is soft on Russia but wasn't he pretty hard on China?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump is soft on Russia but wasn't he pretty hard on China?

Has he ever been tough on China when the cost him anything? Being hard on China has economic consequences.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trump represents overt corporate oligarchy taking over America. Those people don't care as long as they live comfortably. The US is building chip factories in the southwest to replace TSMC for domestic use. Once thats completed. Corpos don't care about Russians and Chinese carving out spheres of influence across the world and killing millions. They only care about their own hides and the last reason to care about overseas affairs would have become redundant.

And this is the same scenario where millions of Americans are thrown into abject poverty by the deliberate crashing of the economy as technofascist corpos like Elon musk are allowed to shape the economy to their designs.

Once again. Those corporate only care about their own kind. Everyone else is expendable assets. Whether it be lower and middle class american citizens. Or entire countries. Panama. Canada. Mexico. Ukraine. Taiwan. You can't appeal to the morals and nature of corporate oligarchs because they'd rather kill you for wasting their time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Until he benefits personally, then he's soft. All China would need to do is promise to sell Trump goods or let him build a gaudy hotel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I would be stunned if he was to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Trump was hard on China until Ivanka got her patents approved. After that, he was remarkably friendly with them. And now Russia is friendly with China. I'm sure those tariffs will disappear once he's been paid.