The US president says he wants Beijing and Taipei to "cool down" tensions over the self-governing island.
    • stylusmobilus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I’ve been of the mind it might actually be a reminder of a previous agreement. Remember when they bought a shitload, or there was a transfer of billions for a shitload, of Trump shit coin? Yeah. I think that was when the agreement was made and the customer has reminded him of his obligation.

      Certainly he went over there cap in hand, that’s why he had his team with him. He needed them.

    • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      105·
      3 days ago

      Well I hope he keeps speaking with Mamdani and Xi because it’s only been after them that he’s actually had actual reasonable takes.

      “I’m not flying 9000 miles to fight a war” might be the most reasonable thing he’s ever said.

      Unfortunately, you can hear his comments directly after China and he keeps saying “I haven’t decided” and “I’m not going to say yet”. Which basically means he hasn’t been told by his billionaire friends and neocons in Washington what to do yet.

        • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          71·
          3 days ago

          I know it’s a joke. But, there is always a little bit of truth to good jokes. Moments like these really expose the people that are playing “team sports” with politics. A lot of people that haven’t been paying attention for the last 10-20 years try to place all of America’s problems on Trump that in moments like this (or Mamdani) they are not able to understand what Trump really is.

          These types of moments really expose that he is a vessel for the totality of the ruling class made up of Zionist, Boomers, Neocons, and more generally capitalist interest. He is the perfect vessel for following those interests. And every once in awhile, his dumb brain gets exposed to advice that convinced him that it will make him popular.

          • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            the ruling class made up of Zionist, Boomers, Neocons, and more generally capitalist interest

            You forgot the pedos.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    He then goes for a meeting in Taiwan and after receiving a golden Big Mac declares Taiwan should be sovereign

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      For weeks the American President moved between Taiwan and Beijing, the policy changing two hours after his flight landed.

      • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        He’s not giving any prizes back for sure, they’re all for him to play with. Like South Park when Cartman gets the RC truck and makes Kyle watch while he plays. Think it’s the hippy episode, oh that’s a good one and been awhile too.

  • trailee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    121·
    2 days ago

    [Trump] added: “I’m going to say I have to speak to the person that right now is, you know, you know who he is, that’s running Taiwan.”

    How is he so completely unprepared?

    • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
      511·
      3 days ago

      Nah, a cheque or large buy of trump/melania coin or a tacky ‘gold’ trophy would do it too.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        341·
        3 days ago

        Simply being the most recent person to talk to Trump is enough. Maybe tomorrow Trump will talk with the president of Taiwan and have the opposite opinion afterward.

      • Xerxos@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Have you seen him after the talks? He looked completely defeated. They have something on him. Probably pedo stuff.

    • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      No Chinese on the Epstein list, they probably don’t have it, unlike Putin. What they do have however, is a blank cheque.

      • radiofreebc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 days ago

        They have their own list, and prostitution is way more out in the open there, so it’s not blackmail material to them. But, they (and Russia and Israel) have a lifetime of recorded proof Trump is a sleazeball…and they’re cashing in.

        • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          24 hours ago

          Prostitution? You think the billionaires are killing people and destroying the world to cover up sex with prostitutes ?

          • radiofreebc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            21 hours ago

            I can’t speak for all billionaires, but it’s very obvious Trump is doing just that. He’ll torch the world to keep the Epstein Files from seeing the light of day.

  • mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    2 days ago

    What the advantage of Taiwan declating official independence? On the ground it is already.

  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    lol.only two years ago the residents of Taiwan were kissing trumps bottom after his last term and not understanding why the left are so hard on trump.

    Now they know.

  • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1719·
    3 days ago

    This is literally the most popular position of the people of Taiwan. Despite what western media tries to portray, Taiwan doesn’t want to become the next Ukraine. The overwhelming majority of Taiwanese people are not looking to make their home into an aircraft carrier for American fighter jets. Or become the ground for the next world powers proxy war.

    Trump isn’t “warning” them. He’s literally just stating the obvious. Taiwan wants to remain in its current position and not escalate any conflict. Staying with the status quo is what has been the majority position of Taiwanese people for decades.

      • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        514·
        3 days ago

        Thank you. This is the data my brain was remembering. Appreciate the source comrade.

        • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          151·
          2 days ago

          So, the polls say move towards independence, or at least keep status quo

          • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            611·
            2 days ago
            33.5 + 26.3 + 6.1 + 1.1 = 67.0

            I know math is hard. But this is basic arithmetic. 67% of the population responded with no interest in independence at all. Since my original comment was about “independence vs. status quo” that means (excluding the non response data of 6.6%) you have 67% favoring status quo over the data even leaning towards independence at 21.9 + 4.4 = 26.3%.

            Now I grouped “status quo and decide at a later date” with status quo. So, I’ll argue for your case. So for your own arguments sake I’ll steelman you as that data being “unknown”. It’s the middleground take. I think that’s the only fair steelman. Since they already responded with “status quo”. But, let’s say that’s just “undecided” people. For the sake of your argument.

            That still leaves 67.0% - 26.3% = 40.7% of Taiwanese people preferring status quo OR unification. With only 26.3% preferring status quo OR independence.

            I know it’s hard to read graphs. But, wtf mate, how do you fuck that up so badly? It’s just HARD status quo. You pretending that there is a large independence portion is just showing your own bias.

            Again, my original comment wasn’t about unification. It was about maintaining the status quo. Which the vast majority of Taiwanese people are in favor of in some form. 67% as of latest polls to be exact.

            Edit: all my numbers are taken from the last part of the graph. Just to clarify.

            • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              122·
              2 days ago

              Then that graph doesn’t make sense or do we see different data?

              Edit: so the top 3 want status quo, either indefinitely, decide later, or towards independence.
              Moving towards unification is pretty much one of the lowest ones

              • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                31·
                2 days ago

                yeah their point is that, as seen in the 2022 changes, the invasion of ukraine has made “maintain status quo forever” the most popular option—and made “status quo first and move towards independence” and “decide later” (which is leaving open the possibility of moving towards independence) trend downwards. nobody is disagreeing that unification has always been unpopular

                it’s worthy of note that 33.5% against 23% means the latter (status quo and move towards independence) is still a substantially popular opinion, but the person you’re replying to is correct that maintain status quo indefinitely has an incredible plurality

                • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  1·
                  11 hours ago

                  Thanks. I’m glad someone can read a graph. It’s amazing to me how much American idiots become “war with China” if suddenly the other team (party) says we shouldn’t.

                  I swear liberals would say the Korean, Vietnam, of Iraq invasions were justified if Trump suddenly said they were bad.

                  They have no actual moral compass or understanding of history that guides them. They are reacting to shapes and colors and can’t even remove their bias when reading a graph.

    • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      They just don’t want to die. They’ll go with whatever that will mean.