TaiwanIsNotChina comments

JJEToday 04:58 pm JST

Relevant to observe Zelensky has spent some time insulting Trump over the last few months. Referring to him as a "loser president" is the straw that will break the camel's back here. Particularly considering when there is already some blood in the water between them.

The correct quote is, "Does he want to become a loser president?". After a pause Putin would “go further”, humiliating Trump and making him look “very weak” in the eyes of the world, he said.

All of which is objectively true.

finally richToday 03:50 pm JST

This is completely insane and China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are loving this because they see this weakness as an opportunity to keep being aggressive and to keep creating trouble for the U.S. and its allies.

Better the guy that will do whatever his advisers tell him to do than the guy that will do whatever China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea tell him to do.

WoodyLeeToday 04:27 pm JST

News outlets are reporting that the Russian army has just liberated the Donetsk Region and nearly 1200 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in just one day.

Considering Kramatorsk is still free, no, the terrorists have not occupied all of Donetsk Oblast.

WoodyLeeToday 03:00 pm JST

The world has yet to meet a democratically elected leader who wishes harm to Democracy. Mr. Zelenskiy better start thinking about the HUMAN cost rather than saving face.

Why not Putin start thinking about the HUMAN cost since he is the offender. He can turn himself into the Hague to expedite things.

deanzaZZRToday 03:29 pm JST

The Chinese nation includes 1.4 billion people, 24 million of those Chinese are on the island province of Taiwan.

Sounds like an excellent reason not to murder 24 million people so you can beat your chest and wonder where all your trade went.

deanzaZZRToday 02:54 pm JST

Once again from the Shanghai Communique, Taiwan's current yojimbo declared,

The U.S. side declared: The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position.

Once again, the entire world declared that nonsense statement in order to get access to the Chinese market only.

ianToday 04:06 pm JST

We'll find out if US ships venture into China territory

Which only includes 12 nm from populated non-artificial land. More likely we will see when the US exercises its freedom of navigation in international waters and China does something stupid.

Why is the warmongering power "allowing" anything? Get the US in there and do what you need to do, Phillipines!!!

deanzaZZRToday  01:52 pm JST

Reagan's White House agreed to decrease arms sales to Taiwan over time.

Reagan didn't know that China would have a bit of economic success while having zero political reform. This was the height of Bide Your Time deception.

The United States Government states that it does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan, that its arms sales to Taiwan will not exceed, either in qualitative or in quantitative terms, the level of those supplied in recent years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, and that it intends to reduce gradually its sales of arms to Taiwan, leading over a period of time to a final resolution. US China joint communique August 17, 1982

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/united-states-china-joint-communique-united-states-arms-sales-taiwan

Aw, you poor baby. Maybe don't make unreasonable demands in the first place.

*Republicans in Congress

bass4funkToday  02:30 pm JST

"Congress has approved legislation that would prevent any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an Act of Congress. "

So if the Republicans retake the Senate and it looks like that could be a real possibility, they would pull back or limit aid.

That's not the same as withdrawing from NATO, but even for Ukraine aid, not too many Republicans are as eager to grab their ankles as you are.

itsonlyrocknrollToday  01:59 pm JST

No country is an island. Even your figure of 75 trillion is only about three years of US GDP. Most Russians aren't going to want to go into mining or oil drilling. Meanwhile, the disastrous war in Ukraine is driving away talent.

Putin Russia is at a crossroads, its huge natural resources could ultimately force EU/UK into capitulation forcing Ukraine into a form of compromise for the very reasons you outline.

Not as long as they can tap into the huge resources of the US, Canada, and Norway, among others.

Russian government is not remotely politically beholden to such policies, neither is China or Indian. 

Then China and India are going to be in a very bad place when their water source, the Himalayas, goes completely dry.

deanzaZZRToday  11:27 am JST

The correct title is Director. Raymond Greene and his staff should confine their work to consulate work for American citizens living in Taiwan and commerce as agreed to by the PRC and the USA in the two countries' agreements in the 1970s. 

Yes, you would like that wouldn't you. Fortunately there are also arms deals to be made.

As the Shanghai Communique clear reads, politics is to be decided by the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. By the Chinese themselves. Quit meddling in the internal affairs of another nation.

There are very few Chinese left on the island of Taiwan. Quit plotting to destroy a country of 24 million people.

"The US side declared: The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves."

A nonsensical statement when it was first made and more so today, but you have to check the box to get the access to the market.

itsonlyrocknrollToday  12:09 pm JST

The EU has 3x the population of Russia and is wealthier. Than only thing preventing them from turning Russia back on their own is a lack of unity, which is understandable.

EU member states will be left with the huge bill/cost to rebuild Ukraine for decades to come.

Better Euros than dead and wounded soldiers like Russia has to deal with along with permanent sanctions.

JJEToday  09:13 am JST

Zelensky made the main photo and, of course, he will be at the meeting.

Interesting fact: on the night of July 8th, when explosions thundered all over Ukraine in the rear areas, Zelensky left Ukraine for Poland a few hours before the raids started.

Always important to note that every single non-military facility targeted is a war crime.

TheRegulatorToday  10:32 am JST

Reading the comments above it seems most are from people taken in by the media narrative about Ukraine. Note how there are almost never any articles which attempt to explain what has been happening over the last 30 years or even accurately present the Russian viewpoint. That is a feature of propaganda.

Note how there is no acknowledgment that Russia's invasion is illegal six ways from Sunday from certain quarters.

JJEToday  09:59 am JST

https://www.un.org/geospatial/content/russian-federation

Here is the UN's official map of the Russian Federation from their website.

Notice the Kuril Islands are shaded in the same color as the rest of Russia (and in a different color to Japan). 

This is proof the Kuril Islands are UN-recognized territory of the RF.

Pretty flimsy proof if you ask me. I bet Japan could get that taken down if it was anywhere near aggressive enough.

JJEToday  09:54 am JST

Notice when they say in the media, whether it be a government or semi-govt body they are quoting, they mention Crimea and Donbass as "illegally occupied/annexed/non UMN recognized" etc but never the same about the Kuril Islands (except Japan and a few vassals and the cartel boss) - no other countries see it that way. Even Japan doesn't go that far to argue against the actual UN.

How odd.

Still waiting on those sources that the UN explicitly recognizes the Kuril occupation.

TokyoLivingToday  09:55 am JST

Stop doing silly things, you are not and will not be NATO, besides, why join a group of losers, who have lost their relevance in the world and who still believe that they are living in the era of the Cold War...

If the US isn't relevant, China can take their island anytime. They don't because they are SCARED of the consequence.

JJEToday  09:34 am JST

Kishida has imperialist territorial ambitions of his own. He wants to annex the Kuril Islands which are UN recognized sovereign territory of the Russian Federation.

He should stop the sabre rattling himself and observe international law.

You mean the territory extralegally occupied by Russia? Sources that the UN recognizes Russian occupation or it didn't happen.

JJEToday  09:18 am JST

RF did not "establish" any such thing.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia existed before the RF even existed you know... long before.

But under the control of Tbilisi before Russia's illegal invasion of that country.

Important to crucially note that China is responsible for the disgusting situation at the UN and it has no bearing on Taiwan's de facto independence.

JJEToday  08:36 am JST

RF has not annexed one square inch of territory from anyone between 1991 and 2014 - including Georgia. This is a fact. Indeed, no Georgian territory has been incorporated into the RF at all.

Again that magical date. Russia has committed zero homicides in Europe before 2014 you say?

Annexations can be defensive. Look at Hawaii.

Nothing defensive about it, but we aren't in the 19th century anymore.

They beat the others to the punch just like Crimea in 2014. Many other examples of this type of conduct.

And all examples of Russian barbarism.

JJEToday  08:28 am JST

*Membership is highly unlikely while the conflict rages. However, the allies plan to present Ukraine with a “bridge” to membership that would further lay out next steps.*

Highly unlikely means impossible. Highly unlikely also applies to the circumstances required for Kyiv to be eligible for NATO membership, which is to win the war hands-down, pushing the Russians back to 1991 borders - which also means impossible.

Any sensible person knows this is never going to happen now that Kyiv regime forces have/are being ground down, daily incremental gains made with the complete initiative held by RFAF and the vast mobilization of their economy/society to a war footing.

All of that is to say Ukraine will have access to everything in the NATO arsenal.

Moreover, Moscow has made plain that a truncated Ukraine rump state will be fully neutral and will never be permitted to join NATO. Kremlin will never allow it.

Thankfully Moscow cannot afford the demands it makes.

This is actually the root cause of the conflict.

I thought it was the nazis, or the language law, or the shelling, or (insert reason of the day here). Putin, like any unhinged individual, is unable to explain what the demands of Ukraine are.

This 'bridge' is likely to be an obstacle to peace and an invitation for larger Russian gains.

I am all in favor of additional expenditure of Russian forces.

Absolutely appalling that anything would go unspent when anti-ship missiles are needed at maximum production capability.

Good to see the critical alliance between the US and Taiwan advancing.

YotomayaToday  07:52 am JST

There is no "global peace". It's just code for American hegemony. 

If you can't win the peace, you aren't playing the game right.

JJEToday  07:29 am JST

Kishida is being dishonest. Russia had not moved its border further west one inch from 1991 to 2014 when a certain country was hijacked by a western backed coup.

And that is supposed to make everything ok, that Russia did its illegal activity from 2014 onwards? And yes, Russia's puppets were brought down by mighty US baseball bats.

Moscow launched a full-scale strategic counteroffensive, defensive in nature, after effectively being lied to for eight years and a list of provocations before that.

Annexations are only defensive in nature to the diseased mind of the Russian. No lie will ever top, "there will be no invasion".

Surely Kishida knows the NATO-orchestrated Georgian War of 2008 was the first direct clash between a Western proxy and the Russian on the territory of the former Soviet Union; that was the Rubicon crossed and the current conflict is a scaled-up version of that but for the exact same reasons.

The reason is Putin's monstrous megalomania. All he could do was Georgia in 2008. All he could do was Crimea and the Donbas in 2014. Time to make sure that diseased bear finally expires with trying to take all of Ukraine in 2024.

bass4funkToday  07:53 am JST

One thing they definitely will talk about behind closed doors is this:

*NATO's air defense equipment in Kyiv and in places around the country suffered an embarrassing failure over the last few days. Russian air units got the better of them, inflicted huge losses on western supplied systems and other targets, with their own missiles going errant. *

Complete disaster

https://hir.harvard.edu/empty-meetings-and-broken-promises-how-nato-is-failing-to-do-its-job/

And rings truer than ever today.

Your first year student is saying NATO needs a more robust response to Russia and that was written prior to Putin's War. Do you read the things you are posting?

bass4funkToday  07:26 am JST

NATO is Obsolete .

Time for the U.S. to pullout.

Thankfully Congress has ensured that the know-nothings don't have that as an option.