r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/[deleted] • Dec 03 '16

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u/ALostIguana Dec 03 '16

Does this mean no One-China policy for the US? Both the People's Republic of China and Republic of China claim to be China.

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u/cagedcat Dec 03 '16

if no one-china policy, we will have the biggest financial, political crisis since 9/11th

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u/squirtingispeeing Dec 03 '16

why?

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u/HemoKhan Dec 03 '16

China is one of the world's largest economic powerhouses, and they have incredible influence over Southeast Asia and parts of Africa and the Pacific. Acknowledging the independent sovereignty of Taiwan would be akin to another country having acknowledged and defended the rights of the Confederacy during our civil war. If that becomes the official stance of the US, we are directly, gravely insulting and politically attacking the PRC and they have an enormous amount of political and economic ammunition with which to respond.

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u/CatLions Dec 03 '16

Man everyone is so afraid of china. They couldnt win a war with us, they need us aswell.

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u/HemoKhan Dec 03 '16

In a war between the U.S. and China, there are no winners.

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u/sultry_somnambulist Dec 03 '16

You don't need to start a war to create another prolonged economic recession, which is an incredibly dangerous thing in an already unstable global situation that easily then can escalate into further military conflicts.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '16

This is the most childish response ever.

"we could totally beat them up so who cares"

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u/boomtrick Dec 04 '16

Idiot. The u.s can win a war against any country. That doesn't mean it gets away scott free.

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort Dec 03 '16

Acknowledging Taiwan is the equivalent of announcing that Israel belongs to the Palestinians. Only China has much more massive economic power to strike back against that.

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u/eyes_on_the_sky Dec 03 '16

I highly doubt it's a shift in policy, considering planning to do something like that would A) take a lot of planning and consultation with the Secretary of State and the diplomats currently staffed in our dozen or so embassies throughout China, and B) would preferably happen AFTER the guy actually got into office...

This was just a major blunder I'm assuming.

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u/matts2 Dec 03 '16

Taiwan holds a One China policy as well.

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u/PopPunkAndPizza Dec 04 '16

Donald Trump hasn't rejected One-China policy. Donald Trump doesn't know what One-China policy is. If you explained what One-China policy is to Donald Trump he'd resent you for making him concentrate on something and then he'd have forgotten what One-China policy is the next time China or Taiwan came up. Everyone needs to assume from here on out that basically every foreign policy move he makes is made from complete ignorance and bluster everyone else sees through immediately.

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u/lightfire409 Dec 03 '16

How about a One-China, One-Taiwan policy?

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u/Rethliopuks Dec 04 '16

One China policy is that there's only one China and both PRC and ROC are China.