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.
“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?
From Putin’s bitch to Pooh’s bitch.
Taiwan just needs to get trump to visit and the arms sale will be back on
Or just send him a
piecepeace prize award, golden if possible.Golden is mandatory. You can’t be sending him some TEMU Peace Prize.
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
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.
Because its not a secret. That’s what happened.
Xi probably just gave him a stern look.
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.
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.
Japanese people barely even vote so I dunno what the fuck they’re complaining about.
Jfc!
Non-voters & third party voters, this is on you.
Harris cultists 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.
That matters in the primaries. Once the candidates are set, you get two viable options.
But that’s hard, and blaming voters is much easier!
God damn that’s a lot
