US to hold trade talks with Taiwan, island drills military

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JOHNSON LAI and JOE McDONALD

HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. government will hold trade talks with Taiwan in a sign of support for the island democracy that China claims as its own territory, prompting Beijing to warn Thursday it will take action if necessary to “safeguard its sovereignty.”

The announcement of trade talks comes after Beijing fired missiles into the sea to intimidate Taiwan after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this month became the highest-ranking American official to visit the island in 25 years.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government criticized the planned talks as a violation of its stance that Taiwan has no right to foreign relations. It warned Washington not to encourage the island to try to make its de facto independence permanent, a step Beijing says would lead to war.

“China firmly opposes this,” Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Shu Jueting said. She called on Washington to “fully respect China’s core interests.”



Taiwanese soldiers operate a Oerlikon 35mm twin cannon anti-aircraft gun at a base in Taiwan's southeastern Hualien county on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island.(AP Photo/Johnson Lai)


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[AZLD4Candidate]

1. Xi Jinping has backed himself into a corner on this one.

The CCP doesn't care about anyone else except the 5% of China that belongs to it.

The people in China, mostly, don't care about this. It's only the CCP and their nationalist water carriers.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Hualien in the southeast of Taiwan, as the story mentioned.

Taiwan is roughly the size of Lake Michigan. A little shorter and wider.

Hualien is far from Taipei and Taoyuan Counties and relatively close to Tainan and Kaohsiung.

Hualien is a seaside city. Eastern Taiwan is low mountains.

wiki links: geography of taiwan and main lin of taiwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Taiwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

Wiki says Taiwan is a country. Mainland China hates that.

[oldsoftie]

3. You negotiate trade deals with COUNTRIES. Suck it, Ji

[former9thward]

12. The U.S. does not regard Taiwan as a country.

President Carter broke diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979. That has been the position of every administration since then.

[oldsoftie]

13. Actions speak louder than words. We don't negotiate trade deals with "regions"

Its just become silly. They have their own military, their own elections, their own laws, their own EVERYTHING. Semantics.
China just throws tantrums like trump does

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Maybe if we are going to stand against China

We should stop selling their products in every Walmart and chain store in the US?

80% of the products sold in Walmart are made in China. Other chain stores throughout the US also sell major quantities of Chinese products. It's like we give China money with one hand and tell them no you can't use that money with the other hand.

If you don't want China to buy weapons and use their military against Taiwan, or join in war games with Russia, you shouldn't be handing them over so much wealth.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. If any country went to war against China and they stopped exporting...Inflation equal 50%!

Every country in the world is flooded with Chinese products…the world WANTS these products!

Fact!

[Farmer-Rick]

7. Yup, that maybe true

But then develop better supply chains that don't rely on totalitarian regimes to be successful. Or that don't rely on cheap labor from totalitarian countries to make your products.

Before China, there were other suppliers. It's not necessary to our economy unless we allow corporations to make it necessary because free trade, globalization and capitalism.

But you can't have your cake and eat it to. You can't make China your major trading partner then object to their totalitarian behavior, that you fund.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. Cut off all imports from China! Bring them to their knees! Americans will pay more for their

Walmart goods, won’t they?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. C'mon,

You know the American people like their cheap Chinese made crap too much for that to happen.

It would impact my company, but it would be worth it to me to not deliver to WalMart, there are plenty of other well paying loads to be had.

See, we agree on this.

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Yea, exactly, you understand

Listen, America just cut off most abortions to hundreds of millions of American citizens for no other reason then god. That decision will cost women, families, doctors, hospitals and health insurers a lot, a lot of money.

So let's cut off all Chinese imports for no other reason then patriotism. If they can sell the one, they can sell the other.

China made their wealth from exporting to the US through Walmart. Cutting them off will hurt them a lot too.

Just saying being an imperialist power sometimes costs. You have to make decisions on what you want more. Free trade with China or Taiwan's autonomy and no war games with Russia.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. Ya know

I never understood the term "war games", war is not a fucking game.

[oldsoftie]

15. Everything made in China can be made next door or elsewhere. The EU also sends a lot to china

We always hear "costs". Of course it costs more to bring everything back here. We should try. But if that doesnt happen it can still be taken OUT of china. Plenty of other low cost countries can be used.
We must stop sourcing critical items from our enemy

[Farmer-Rick]

16. So, true.

[oldsoftie]

14. Its going to take new laws to FORCE critical mfg OUT of china. And pressure from US

I email companies that I WOULD buy from if they were out of China
Just the other day I received an actual response from a company with mfg in China, Vietnam & Columbia. They said that they are currently in the process of trying to eliminate their reliance on China. I thanked them for their response & told them to advertise when they do.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. AP, the corporate propaganda wing of the Pentagon beseeches Americans to support

yet more hundreds of billions of dollars for weapons!

Half a world away, yet so near to the hearts of the Yankee war machine.

Get your head out of the sand, you are being led by the nose!