72
With no resupply of Ukraine in the middle of a fight, why would Taiwan believe anything they have to say?
Especially because the US doesn’t even officially recognise them as a country
There’s a good reason for that. It’s a de facto sovereign nation and the lack of acknowledgement cools the temperature in Beijing. There would be wide bipartisan support for protecting Taiwan, as opposed to Ukraine because a significant portion of Republicans and tankies like Russia for two very, very different reasons
Very different. One is a group of blood thirsty authoritarian malcontents who reject modernity and-
Hang on, er...
To have formal relations with China you can't recognize Taiwan as independent.
I know about the whole strategic ambiguity, but doesn’t mean that the position isn’t precarious
This is the best summary I could come up with:
China, America’s chief competitor for global influence, claims Taiwan as its own territory and threatens to use force to bring the self-governed island under its control.
In 2022, it responded to a visit by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with some of its largest military maneuvers in years, including missile launches and a simulated blockade of Taiwan.
President Joe Biden, seeking to calm that complaint, insists there’s no change in America’s longstanding “one-China” policy, which recognizes Beijing as representing China but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taiwan.
Washington cut formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979 in order to recognize China, but U.S. law requires it to ensure the island has the ability to defend itself.
That has translated into a heavy reliance by Taiwan on U.S. military hardware and a law saying that Washington must treat threats against the island as a matter of “grave concern.”
“We understand the pressures and the type of coercion of the Chinese Communist Party, and yet the Taiwanese people spoke loud and clear,” Balart said at a late Thursday news conference.
The original article contains 621 words, the summary contains 179 words. Saved 71%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Taiwan has been handed over to the Chinese government a long time ago. For two years now the west has been scrambling to open up semiconductor fabs in the US (TSMC in Arizona), Europe (TSMC in Germany) and other Asian countries (South Korea with Samsung, plus many more I haven’t mentioned all across Europe, the US, Asia). Lots of taxpayer money has been handed out to these fabs in the form of subsidies. With semiconductors acting as “a shield” for Taiwan, it’s concerning to see even TSMC spread outside of the country.
The west also relies more on China than on Taiwan economically. Polls also show that over 80% of Japan wouldn’t consider intervening militarily if Taiwan was invaded. Most South Koreans don’t care much either.
Other concerning signs would be that the US has slowly stopped selling Taiwan advanced munitions and other advanced equipment that is very expensive, and has pivoted more towards cheaper munitions. It shows that the deterrence of advanced and expensive equipment hasn’t been working, and that the US is preparing Taiwan more for a war of attrition.
Current signs do not show that the US would intervene if China was to invade, especially after Xi met with Biden in San Francisco last year.
I fail to see how this support would materialise in military intervention. I think it’s unfortunate and I fully support every group of people’s right to self determination and independence, including the Taiwanese under a sovereign Taiwan, but I fail to see a western intervention as realistic.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
72 points (97.4% liked)
World News
39041 readers
2413 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS