With eyes on Taiwan, new China ban shows the U.S. may be learning lessons from mistakes with Russia
With eyes on Taiwan, new China ban shows the U.S. may be learning lessons from mistakes with Russia
U.S. moves to ban certain investment in China suggest that Western allies may be learning from national security failings in Russia, according to analysts.
U.S. moves to de-risk from China with a new investment ban suggest that Western allies may be learning from national security failings in Russia, according to analysts.
If we're really learning from mistakes in Ukraine then Taiwan should be recognised as an independent country and admitted into a formal alliance. Not admitting Ukraine into NATO was the mistake we made there and it's being repeated in Taiwan.
Hey, I 100% support Ukraine and financial aid for them, but I feel like this conflict runs the risk of distorting history. Ukraine has a very corrupt recent past and admitting them before they clean up their own house might well have just been a different kind of mistake. Hopefully we can be formal allies some day.
I don't have an agenda here other than being kind to people who made decisions without the benefit of the hindsight we use to second guess them.
But the US is doing something called "stragetic ambiguity," where they neither ally with Taiwan nor ally with China. China has repeatedly stated that the day Taiwan declares independence is the day they attack. However, if the US ever feels confident enough to actually establish diplomatic relationships with Taiwan, maybe that's not a bad thing either.
Yeah indeed strategic ambiguity has been the approach they've taken so far. If they decided to they could change the approach though. I think it's unlikely China would carry out the threat if a formal alliance was actually announced since in that case they'd be starting a world war. I think it's more likely they'd express outrage, protest and perhaps fly some fighter jets over Taiwan, take some steps short of actual war. My worry is that if the situation remains ambiguous China might conclude that the security guarantees are not real and that US would not respond. Having strong credibility there is essential for maintaining peace I think, especially if the intention is to actually respond.
Yep just straight up spell it with no mucking about. Put Taiwan, Japan, NZ, Australia, SK etc into NATO or its own equivalent and let the stakes be known. If you want WWIII, invade Taiwan. Or move on.
That would break the 50-year One China Policy to which the U.S. subscribes and immediately trigger a major conflict with China.
Yeah it would require congressional approval. But that's not beyond the realm of possibility as there is bipartisan support for Taiwan in the Congress.
Who is downvoting this comment? 7 bots at the time of my comment.
This article is assuming mistakes were made with Russia instead of things going exactly as planned.
So, so glad this post is on lemmy.world. Otherwise the comments would have already been filled with tankies from hexbear.net saying stuff like "but isn't Taiwan a part of China?"
Gotta get in that preemptive tankie mention in order to score that employee of the month award, huh?
ITT: liberals literally lobbying for more military spending, more military intervention, and more willingness to use national and transnational nuclear militaries to continue dominating the entirety of the globe.