You know, if you wanted to negotiate some trade deals with the goons that run China, having Taiwan as a bargaining chip isn't such a bad thing. It's a very Trumpian move. You reset the relationship by taking a position wildly in your favor and then you negotiate down from there.
My man @BDaddyLiberator has been trying to tell me this for a long time, but I was too locked into conventional wisdom to see it.
I'm more worried about the thing where China is building islands and then insisting other countries respect them as Chinese home-soil.... but this doesn't hurt that, either.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it doesn't look like they did a whole lot of hand-wringing about that, does it?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I wonder if the dingbat from the Philippines is starting to question his decision to cozy up with the Chinese now. I suspect Trump will be a little tougher than Obama.
Why would you call him a dingbat? He made a rational decision in his nation's self-interest based on the facts of political reality given eight years of the Obama pseudo-presidency and the assured-by-everyone-in-the-know incoming Clintonian third Obama term.
ReplyDeleteCheck out some of the stuff on the guy. Dingbat is being far too polite.
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