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The Chinese leader Biden told China's ambitions to control Taiwan were unchanged at a meeting meant to reduce tensions.

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[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago

That's what Xi said.

[-] eltrain123@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

… try… they’re going to try to take over Taiwan.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

No, they would very thoroughly lose. China's in no condition to take on the US, let alone decouple its economy from the global community.

[-] Cosmicomical@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

"The chinese leader Biden"?

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He's playing both sides, so he comes out on top.

I let kbin auto-fill the post contents/title, surprised it edited it like so?

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee -5 points 2 years ago

The "Democratic" Party is owned by China, Republicans of course by Russia? 🤔

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

So, One China Policy still stands. Breaking news, status quo?

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

China has long had a unification plan. It's not really anything new. There's just been a huge political football made out of it for decades. And of course that led to stupidly huge over investment in their economy by the rest of the globe as a way to encourage China to back off. Xi doesn't see the value in the status quo. It'd be like California seceding, then making tons of money while the rest of the US went fascist and built military power. Same ending.

[-] curiousaur@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago

I wish Biden had the balls to tell him to his face: "no you won't".

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

I'm glad he didn't. Authoritarians are not known for their sense of humor. There was that one time he told Putin "I don't think you have a soul" to his face. The reply was basically "we understand each other".

Then there was the time Obama roasted Trump at a dinner, and it made him so bitchmad that he ran for president.

Maybe zingers should stay out of politics.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Did Obama inadvertently create this Trump nightmare we are in?

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's conjecture

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

"Oh come on Jack."

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If he did that there's a good chance of a conflict that leads to war without international support. Basically everyone who doesn't want to give up relations (cheap trade) with China has an opening to blame the US for the outbreak of war (even while condemning the invasion itself) to stay on China's good side. China would then likely attempt to use the situation to further erode the USD as the world reserve currency - which is really the biggest weapon they can wield against us.

Right now Taiwan is Kuwait in 1990. If China invades we can claim moral high ground and move in as an international coalition. Until then we can just make sure our allies agree with our stance. Publicly if possible.

Edit: Though Biden could and should encourage some of our Generals to issue "No Xi won't" memos. They can get away with it on the international stage.

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Sounds like a final warning to me

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

oh no

anyway

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

There's so much stuff coming out about China gearing towards Taiwan and its pretty scary. Either we let dictatorship shithole take a democratic militarized country by force or China will be put to Russian level shame and basically never recover. That's some real ww3 stuff. I hope Europe gets their shit together until that time comes.

[-] PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

America can't afford to lose Taiwan, they make too many semi conductors.

From my understanding they are one of a very few handful of places that can make the chips that are being used in training the current AI. Taiwan is one of the main ones.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

Afaik the semiconductor argument is a bit outdated. It would be very expensive to switch production out of Taiwan but you know what would be more expensive? Hot conflict with China which would be unavoidable if they invade Taiwan.

The economic damage would be brutal to the point where it's actually the biggest deterant and that's why we should trade more with China imo.

[-] Psiczar@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

At least he’s honest

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