[quote=flu]So originally I thinking that the U.S. was going to be messed up with Trump at the helm, while the rest of the world more organized is going to jump ahead of the U.S.
I’m beginning to think of the opposite. Maybe it’s Trump’s genius to do this. Or maybe it’s just his plain ignorance that ends up producing the same results….But the scenario I’m thinking is that by a few subtle things Trump does, he ends up causing so much conflict abroad, that the rest of the world ends up being just as screwed up, if not more screwed up, than we will be.
Take this taiwan/china issue. In one little phone call, if Trump manages to destabilize Asia, that’s pretty impressive. I mean, combined with the idea of U.S. pulling out of Asia politics, I wonder if this would start an arms race back there. The greatest threat to progress is if you have with ethnicity get into conflict with themselves. And this China/Taiwan spat might just do the trick back there. Although my roots is Taiwanese and I am pro-taiwan independence…I’d like to get the point that we don’t split hairs and say things like “I’m not chinese, I’m taiwanese” and vice versus. It doesn’t help the greater cause for asians in the 21st century, imho. And I personally wouldn’t want to see either Taiwan or China fail, since I have no desire to seeing us asians set back in progress.
I felt it to be intentional as well. Quite frankly, if all it takes is a phone call to upset the apple cart, the Emperor really has no cloth! And I think that’s Trump is getting at: that China huffs and puffs a lot but liberal appeasement is silly and I’m going to show you why.
As for China, it has a lot going for it. But the danger of unbridled nationalism lurks and quite frankly frequently flamed on by the CCP. Taiwan is China’s Sudetenland. The moment China gets Taiwan, its nationalism would be raging, with the Philippines just 200 miles away and the nearest Japanese islet just 70 miles away, the temptation to “erase past humiliation” would be far too great to resist.
Taiwanese independence is ultimately good for China, there’s a competing model of governance within the same cultural sphere, it keeps the CCP on their toes.
