[quote=FlyerInHi]Well, the baltic countries are sovereign nations with seats at the UN.
Taiwan does not even have consensus within the island on independence. . In fact, the KMT still asserts claims to all of China.
I don’t think Taiwan is our job.
We should work with the countries in the Pacific to establish a trade and political sphere where we lead. The problem now is that trade with China is so big that Pacific rim countries have no choice but to acquiesce to China. Not so good for us. What is Trump gonna do about it?[/quote]
Spoken like a true leftist proletarian. This is the domestic benefit Trump was looking for, to paint the left leaning media as appeasers and biased. Boy did he succeed on this account.
As for the KMT, you are aware of how badly the KMT has been doing in Taiwan, right? Of the 113 seats in the legislature, it was left with 35 seats, essentially a 30% representation. Of the cities and counties within Taiwan, it retains one metropolis out of six, and otherwise only control two off shore islands, the central mountainous county of Nantou and the poorest agrarian county of Mauli. Only 3.5% of all Taiwanese think of themselves as pure Chinese, only 9% wishes to consider future unification. So the island pretty much has consensus.
You are right, it isn’t really our job. Just like it really isn’t our job to station troops in S.Korea and Japan and we are pretty much the de facto navy for the Philippines. But we are. Luckily for you, if Taiwan goes, there goes all of that extra responsibility that weren’t really our job in the first place.
Maybe then those Filipinos and Japanese will truly taste the proletarian paradise that the 14 billion Chinese has had the pleasure of enjoying for the last 67 years.
