Taipei says it’s yet to receive formal notice as concerns grow over Washington’s commitment to island’s security
The U.S. is pausing a $14bn arms sale to Taiwan as it diverts munitions to sustain the war against Iran, exposing mounting anxieties over rapidly depleting stockpiles.
It comes just days after Donald Trump returned from a high-profile summit with Xi Jinping in China, a country that claims sovereignty over self-governed Taiwan and has threatened to “reunite” it with the mainland by force, if necessary.
Trump said he had discussed the matter of the $14bn arms deal “in great detail” with Chinese president Xi Jinping and would make a decision “over the next fairly short period”, breaking decades of U.S. policy that states decision on Taiwan should not be made in collaboration with Beijing.
So Gabbard steps down, Rubio announces US is no longer a mediary with Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and now this admin is kissing ass of Pooh Bear? Looks like they found a bigger fish to pivot towards.
He could get Xi’s attention. Puten shows up, upstages him. Then in order to suck up, as if his little dictator friend will ever really like him, he withdraws support from an ally.
Sound about right.
Fucking wishy-washy traitorous scum.
MAGA licking Xi’ ball sweat. Pathetic. Free West Taiwan!
Trunk know we can control the petroldollar and protect Taiwan at the same time. He’s probably trying to buy time, because saving the states from bankruptcy was a higher priority than saving Taiwan.
Americans eat is life depends on the Petrodollar and taxing the world though money printing to maintain itself. Without it we are bankrupt.
Taiwan can also create chip and ram shortages in the US. Its so dumb.
God damn Biden causing a chip shortage in the US.
From Putin’s bitch to Pooh’s bitch.
Don’t forget Netanyahu’s bitch
I hear Bibi likes it when he uses his feet.
Hey!
You can’t have a fat orange spit roast with only two people.
Taiwan just needs to get trump to visit and the arms sale will be back on
Just pledge to invest 100 trillion dollars to the us.
He’ll be dead before he figures it out
Why such a low number?
Or just send him a
piecepeace prize award, golden if possible.Golden is mandatory. You can’t be sending him some TEMU Peace Prize.
Honestly, gold-painted aluminum will probably suffice…
A welcome group from the plane with lots of young girls waving flags would actually do it, I guess. That’s not a joke. I’m tired.
Kids, like China did
I hate that you’re right :(
I guess the check cleared. So great he doesn’t have to worry about being investigated for any sort of financial crimes anymore now that he can never be audited
Probably was trump and Melania coin transfers anyway
You think they still have anything in that? Red hats have been holding that bag for months now.
Why do I get this feeling that Trump sold out Taiwan for either a bribe or concessions from Xi over Iran?
I think it’s more that Xi bullied him into it.
It’s likely that he made several points:
Nobody has actually suggested a scenario where the arms package would prevent or even slow down a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
All the US wargames show that the US has no chance of defending Taiwan.
Trump’s trade war failed.
His Iran war is failing.
Trump has burned most of his alliances.He probably phrased all of that in fancy diplomat lingo but all the analysis I’ve seen says it was more of a veiled threat than a bribe.
I don’t think there is anyone left in the US government that understands diplomatic language.
I guess it’s some cheap bribe and "working with the demented elderly.
Xi probably just gave him a stern look.
Because its not a secret. That’s what happened.
Trump is Russia bitch, now he’s xis bitch. It’s funny how the alpha male demigod always looks like a bitch when he gets around other world leaders. Fat fucking pedophile.
Just make another / multiple deal. Silly people. Both sides are snakes - so do snake things right?
“Over the next fairly short period” god this guy can’t word.
Also if the deal was agreed etc and part delivered I guess Taiwan can sue them or something?
I thought the US abandoned Europe to focus on China… They’re just abandoning anyone with a working democracy
Nobody has a working democracy. Europe is slowly falling into facism not tocmention that leaders lies in compaign to win then ignore people demands.
About half the population of any given country would disagree with you.
Across that set of countries – Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States – a median of 64% of adults say they are dissatisfied with the way their democracy is working, while a median of 35% are satisfied.
64% of adults say they are dissatisfied with the way their democracy is working
This is not the same as democracy not working.
Well, as democracy is intended to be an expression of the will of the people, if a majority of them are unsatisfied I’d say there’s a very good chance it’s not working.
That, of course, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not also their fault, though.
It is the same as democracy application is flawed
Japanese people barely even vote so I dunno what the fuck they’re complaining about.
Blame the politicians that are not trustworthy. Using the word barely is also an exaggeration. It is 58% for Japan and 64% for the usa in the last election.
I swear that number was way lower. I guess I was wrong!
good thing they don’t vote.
Non-voters & third party voters, this is on you.
Can I take credit for the diminished influence of the US and less arms sales too?
And I’ll do it again. 😆
That’s right, third party voters and non voters are the difference between winning or losing an election. So the only sensible choice is to learn this lesson and run candidates they would vote for.
But that’s hard, and blaming voters is much easier!
It’s not even hard, they just don’t want to
You do understand that’s why they ran a centrist right? They need to stop trying to court third-party voters.
Are you serious? Do you think 3rd party voters are “centrist”? What third parties are you looking at? 3rd parties are on the ends of the overton window in the US not the middle. If the Democrats ran a centrist to court 3rd party voters then it makes sense they lost. Because apparently they’re morons.
They ran a “centrist” (lmao) because those are the policies that most benefit their owners.
That matters in the primaries. Once the candidates are set, you get two viable options.
Harris cultists this is on you.
Guess I’ll have to be the one who gets downvoted by the liberal imperialists and say this is a GOOD THING!
Taiwan would be better off if the US fucked off and stopped trying to use it as a way to undermine China. China is much less likely to attack a Taiwan that is just being annoying than one that is slowly being armed to the teeth right off its coast. The people of Taiwan do not need more guns. They need competent leaders that can negotiate with Beijing in good faith to rejoin peacefully and on good terms.
Americans who are so concerned about this should be more concerned about the fact the US is probably going to attack it’s 3rd country this year soon (Cuba) instead of whining about a hypothetical Chinese military action that has not happened, and absent the US forcing China’s hand, will not happen.
You do not have the moral high ground. You are making the situation worse by sending weapons not better. Take a good long look in the mirror. Look at what happened to other countries the US did this to (Ukraine). Stop slurping up the Anti-China slop like mindless children. The US is the bad guy. Not China.
The people of Taiwan do not need more guns.
The people of Taiwan, as represented by the government and the Legislative Yuan, do think they need more guns.
Probably because of the swarms of Chinese aircraft which regularly practise attacking them, and the even greater swarms which sit and wait.
I wish there was a diplomatic solution, because any military action in the strait of Taiwan would cause a rapid and severe global crisis.
But the diplomatic action should not be abandoning Taiwan, because that won’t avert a crisis. If Taiwan is attacked, it will fight and land strikes on China too, resulting in exactly the kind of crisis everyone should avoid.
What is this fantasy you live in where we just have to give Taiwan the right amount of guns so it’ll suddenly be able to defend itself enough? Should we give them nukes? All because a generation ago the US got involved in the tail end of the Chinese civil war and created this schism in the first place. The solution to the problem caused by US guns is not more US guns.
You say you wish there was a diplomatic solution. There is. But that is never going to happen while Taiwan is a battleground for 2 global superpowers. The Taiwanese island is right next to mainland China. China is a global superpower. Taiwan has about as much of a realistic chance at full independence from China as Hawaii does from the US. It will never happen. Thinking that sending more guns is going to make it happen is just fantasy. The ONLY solution is to dial down the temperature and let China feel secure enough to not need to force the issue. China has shown a willingness to wait things out as they prefer stability and diplomacy. But if their hand is forced there is no amount of US aid that can stop them from taking Taiwan. The US can’t even beat Iran for fucks sake. All giving them more weapons is doing is getting more innocent people on both sides killed by prolonging their inevitable defeat in the military conflict those very guns will be the catalyst for.
So, this is obviously bs. I’m the first one to criticize the orange person in charge, but China would obviously have taken Taiwan if not for the western support. No doubt.
Well if you mean in the 1950s during the civil war sure. The US is the reason that the Taiwan Island was not rejoined with China then. But to suggest that the CPCs preferred method of reunification is by military force TODAY is to show a complete lack of awareness as to how the CPC operates. They will always choose the diplomatic option whne it is available to them. Yet allowing Taiwan to be turned into an unsinkable US aircraft carrier off their coast is untenable. They would have no choice but to attack. Also, this has nothing to do with Donald Trump. You are falling for this trap of assuming US policy is led by the President. Harris would have done the same thing because the reason this is occuring is that the US has realized after its war with Iran that the war it had been planning with China is not winnable. So it is backing down.
China is authoritarian. There is no way to nonviolently unify Taiwan under China, because the residents of Taiwan would be forced to live under the Chinese government, which would use violence against them.
“China bad” essentially. lol. Such a nuanced and factual argument. I can’t compete!
In the little mind of ML users, every country is full of sheeps except china and the evil US. Ukrainians, taiwanese, iran, venezuela… it doesen’t matter, they dont have a say, right? It’s all USA meddling.
GFYS
I very much think the Iranian people have a say. And they said “No.” to US Intervention in case you didn’t notice. Strait of Hormuz looking awfully based lately.
