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- kona4
To explain Trump’s Taiwan move, there are 3 alarming possibilities.
1. Maybe Trump screwed up. Trump has no working understanding of international affairs, and his team has made no effort to coordinate with the State Department during the presidential transition process – despite the Obama administration making diplomatic personnel available to Trump aides in order to help the new team avoid any embarrassing incidents.
2. Maybe Trump decided to unilaterally and radically change decades of bipartisan U.S. policy on purpose. It’s also possible that the president-elect, or whoever tells him what to think about these issues, decided now would be a good time to provoke China and create new tensions with one of the planet’s burgeoning superpowers. In fact, NBC News reported on Saturday that this call “was pre-arranged,” according to a top Taiwanese official.
3. Maybe Trump’s corrupt. Taiwan isn’t just some random island is East Asia; it’s also of financial interest to the president-elect’s private-sector enterprise. The New York Times reported, “Newspapers in Taiwan reported last month that a Trump Organization representative had visited the country, expressing interest in perhaps developing a hotel project adjacent to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, which is undergoing a major expansion.”
The article added, that a sales manager overseeing Asia for Trump Hotels visited Taiwan just last month.
To put it mildly, it’s unsettling to think of the president-elect trashing four decades of U.S. foreign policy to help give his business interests a boost, but so long as Trump ignores his conflict-of-interest controversies, there’s no reason to think questions like these will go away.
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I'm guessing it's #3, but any way you slice it, you've elected a corrupt dolt American idiots. How ironic.
- 4. Trump's Taiwan phone call preceded by hotel development inquiry
https://www.theguard…utopian - that's like 3b.monospaced
- "no conflicts of interest here, just biased media"dorf
- Or maybe Trump is going to grab China and Taiwan's hands and put them together. They're both single I thinkomg
- 1 or 2 AND 3 is a definite.CyBrainX
- k0na_an0k i always thought of you as a conservative republican.. 'specially the way you handled mrdobolina all those years..e-pill
- nope.
he liked almond joy. i preferred mounds. we could never be together.kona
- 4. Trump's Taiwan phone call preceded by hotel development inquiry