• xenomor
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    7 hours ago

    I’m surprised that Tim could stop sucking trump’s dick long enough to get the words out.

  • Formfiller
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    7 hours ago

    Well the US seems to be moving on the entire world and aiding in the genocide of the Palestinians, starving the Cubans and threatening everyone except Israel.

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      3 hours ago

      How does this change the fact that China attacking Taiwan would be bad? Whataboutism?

    • Dr. Moose
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      7 hours ago

      Cause he singlehandedly doubled China’s economy by moving production to China and training local engineers and - possibly - allowing IP to leak.

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      14 hours ago

      To start spreading doubt for when they make the first move

  • glassplanet@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    this may or may not be true. But I am curious whether China feels more tempted to try something given how preoccupied the US military seems like it might be this year

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      15 hours ago

      I think rather than China just doing it, Xi will contact Trump and offer him some token concession that Trump can sell as victory on tariffs, in exchange for the US not helping Taiwan. I’ll give myself a bonus point if that “major” concession is something we already have or had prior to Trump’s tariffs.

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      14 hours ago

      I don’t think anything will happen that isn’t just a controlled transition from American to Chinese control after some diplomatic deliberations, and in a decade or so not right now. Maybe.

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        13 hours ago

        Taiwan is not under American control. Taiwan has a democratically elected government that represents the will of Taiwanese people.

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          5 hours ago

          Yeah just like how Pakistan has a democratically elected government that also represents the will of the Pakistani people lol.

          But I mean fair enough, it’s not like they have open political corruption.

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          It is certainly beholden to America since they are in theory under their protection. It isn’t quite to the point of being a puppet, but I would probably classify them as something in between a protectorate and a protected state of the US.