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Taiwan is the key to keeping the Chinese from projecting power into the central Pacific, north to Japan and south to Australia. Chinese ownership of Taiwan threatens the next line of islands in the chain in the Pacific and that's not something we're going to allow.
What I don't get is why we don't just go ahead and recognize them.
We’re back to “spheres of influence”, the sort of statecraft that bedeviled Europe and got us into two world wars.
Taiwan is within China’s “sphere of influence”, and Trump just gave China the green light to invade China, by this weekend’s behavior in Venezuela- acting like a hedgemon in our own “sphere of influence”.
Yes Dope, China got the message, but their takeaway was quite different from the one you think was sent and received.
