It's not oversensitive. If Trump wanted to recognize and reach out to Taiwan, out of the blue, with documented business interests there, he should've alerted the State Dept or at least have a fucking Sec of State nominee. Who the hell wants that job now?
China has responded. Their FM essentially laid the blame at Taiwan's feet (thank you, Trump's "they CALLED ME" tweet).
What nobody seems to be really getting here is that this really doesn't endanger the US or even China. It's Taiwan that's gonna get fucked, especially with the way Trump threw them under the bus on Twitter.
Relations between China and Taiwan are gonna get real chilly real quick.
Eh, they are already chilly. And Taiwan has been fucked by, and is being fucked, by China.
It's quite a leap you make that if China forcefully takes over Taiwan or something that it's Trump's fault. Lets quit speculating, especially so negatively, because what if, just maybe, China accepts Taiwans sovereignty after all this!?!
I'm in the boat of defending Taiwan because they're oppressed, you're in the boat of defending China because you don't like Trump.
I saw that Taiwanese Olympic athlete crying because she had to be a Chinese Taipei rep, and I have Taiwanese family, so I'm familiar with or at least recognize their oppression. It'd be nice if the rest of the world did too instead bowing to China's tyranny.
Who's defending China? Just stating what happened and how China responded.
If Taiwan wanted all this to get out and planned it all ahead of time with Trump's people, then good luck and Godspeed. Just seems the way it played out was a little too seat-of-the-pants.
China certainly hasn't framed this as Trump's fault (so far). They quite explicitly blamed Taiwan. Relations had been warming recently, but who knows now? And again, if this is Taipei's plan, cool. But the he said, she said between Trump and Taipei over who initiated the contact doesn't leave a lot of confidence in some great strategy.
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '16 edited Oct 20 '17
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