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The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy
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Why pick a fight over this? I can guarrantee you that Taiwan is a much bigger issue with the Chinese than it is with us. Push them, and there will be blowback.
Maybe if Drump were to put down his phone and attend some intelligence briefings he would know that, and maybe not get us killed.
I hope that the Chinese are savvy enough to know that the guy just wants to create the illusion of a crisis in order to get something.
Politics by melodrama. 
China official says Trump's Taiwan comments cause 'serious concern'
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in a television interview that Trump’s comments over the weekend raised the possibility that U.S.-China relations would be “badly affected.” Geng added that the “one China” policy was the “political foundation” of any Sino-American ties.“We urge the new U.S. leader and government to fully understand the seriousness of the Taiwan issue, and to continue to stick to the one-China policy," Geng said.Trump said on “Fox News Sunday” that he doesn’t feel “bound by a one-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade.”
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Re: The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Trump risks war by turning the One China question into a bargaining chip
President-elect Donald Trump has just said that he considers America’s One China policy a bargaining chip, to be traded off against other things that the United States wants from China. In his description:
I don’t know why we have to be bound by a One China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade. … I mean, look … we’re being hurt very badly by China with devaluation; with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don’t tax them; with building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn’t be doing; and, frankly, with not helping us at all with North Korea.
In other words, the One China policy isn’t a big deal — it’s a bargaining issue, like many other issues. So is Trump right?
No. The big deal is this: The relationship between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan is an ambiguous one, where the People’s Republic claims Taiwan as part of its national territory but is prepared for the present to let Taiwan continue in existence, while Taiwan also has an interest in not clarifying its relationship with the People’s Republic too precisely. Both the PRC and the United States adhere to the notion of One China, but they mean very different things by it.
Undermining the status quo could lead to full-scale military conflict between the United States and China over an island that both see as vital to their national interests and whose unique status they have managed well up to this point.
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