Sounds like the deal is help us with Iran and you can have Taiwan.
That’s a good lap dog! Yes you are, little Trumpee-poo
taiwan isnt declaring independence anyways.
What the advantage of Taiwan declating official independence? On the ground it is already.
He then goes for a meeting in Taiwan and after receiving a golden Big Mac declares Taiwan should be sovereign
For weeks the American President moved between Taiwan and Beijing, the policy changing two hours after his flight landed.
As usual, the idiot 100% agrees with the last person he talked to.
*with the last dictator
Xi is anything but a dictator
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.
I really want Mamdani to talk to him about universal healthcare next
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.
the ruling class made up of Zionist, Boomers, Neocons, and more generally capitalist interest
You forgot the pedos.
Surprised the fat pedophile stayed awake for the press conference
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Oh shit, let me get my poly market bet in for “US attacks Taiwan”
He cannot retain information for longer so whatever the last person he talked with said that’s what he’ll repeat.
Looks like someone in China showed Trump a copy of the Epstein Files.
Nah, a cheque or large buy of trump/melania coin or a tacky ‘gold’ trophy would do it too.
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.
Chinese peace prize.
What a fucking pussy
Aw, well, it’s all settled, then.
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.
They just don’t want to die. They’ll go with whatever that will mean.
relevant domestic opinion polls: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963
Thank you. This is the data my brain was remembering. Appreciate the source comrade.
So, the polls say move towards independence, or at least keep status quo
33.5 + 26.3 + 6.1 + 1.1 = 67.0I 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.
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 onesyeah 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
