Taiwan must pay for defense – Trump
RT | July 17, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has indicated he would be less willing to defend Taiwan from mainland China than his Democratic rival and incumbent US President Joe Biden.
It is “stupid” for Washington to offer protection to Taipei for free, Trump insisted in an interview with Bloomberg recorded on June 25 but published in full on Tuesday.
“I know the people very well, respect them greatly. They did take about 100% of our chip business. I think Taiwan should pay us for defense,” he said.
The self-governed island of Taiwan, which China views as part of its territory, produces an estimated 90% of the world’s super-advanced semiconductor chips.
“I don’t think we are any different from an insurance policy,” the former president stressed. “Taiwan doesn’t give us anything” despite being “immensely wealthy,” he added.
According to Trump, protecting Taipei would also be problematic for Washington due to purely geographical reasons. “Taiwan is 9,500 miles (around 15,000km) away [from the US]. It’s 68 miles (just under 110km) away from China,” he explained.
Taiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai responded to Trump’s comments by saying that the island of 23.5 million is dedicated to boosting its defenses and “willing to take on more responsibility” for its own security.
“Taiwan has steadily strengthened its defense budget and demonstrated its responsibility to the international community,” he said during a press conference on Wednesday.
Cho expressed the belief that “as long as we continue to demonstrate [these efforts], we will receive support from more countries.”
The premier thanked the US several times for paying attention to the issue of Taiwanese security, stressing that Taipei and Washington have “good relations” despite the lack of any formal ties.
Officially, the US accepts the One China policy, which states that Taiwan is an integral part of Chinese territory. However, Washington has been backing Taiwanese pro-independence forces and supplying weapons to the island. Biden has pledged on several occasions that America would defend Taiwan militarily if it were attacked from the mainland.
Beijing vigorously opposes contacts between Washington and Taipei, repeatedly calling the Taiwanese issue its “red line.” The Chinese authorities have said that they would prefer peaceful reunification with the island, but have warned that a military scenario cannot be ruled out.
A poll published earlier this year by the Taiwanese National Chengchi University showed that more than 80% of the island’s population was not seeking independence, but wanted to maintain the status quo with mainland China.
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“Taiwan doesn’t give us anything.”
Except for the 92% of semiconductors we need because of NAFTA offshoring…remember that, Don?
Why doesn’t Trump take this opportunity to return to the NAFTA issue he initially ran on and talk about completely reversing it? It’s Taiwan’s fault US elites, led by Israel-firsters, sold out the US to foreigners? If Trump was Taiwan, he would’ve taken ‘the deal.’
Israeli Zionist operative Martin Indyk essentially admitted that it was Israel’s labyrinthine influence operation which pushed through its own US-Israel agreement first, which then led to more bilaterals and paved the road to NAFTA. Indyk said:
“The US-Israel Free Trade Agreement served as a wedge that opened up the Congress to Free Trade Agreements throughout the world, including the NAFTA agreement. No doubt there are some downsides to it, but otherwise it’s been a very positive thing.”
Indyk said this in response to Grant Smith, who questioned him as to why Arab governments would want to enter into agreements with Israel when they’ve obviously seen how these agreements have been so one-sided in favor of Israel, and conversely so detrimental to the United States.
Grant Smith: “I’m just curious – and this is directed at Martin Indyk – what would induce Arab countries to normalize trade relations with Israel when they can observe that when the US negotiated the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement back in 1984 when you were still at AIPAC – ah, and you’ll remember AIPAC got a hold of the classified USTR report for that negotiation – negotiated a deal in which it reversed the trading relationship to a seventy-one billion dollar deficit to the US.
It’s about a hundred thousand jobs a year. It locked out agricultural products from the US. Israel’s become a huge problem in terms of commercializing patented clinical dossiers from pharmaceutical companies, and counterfeit drugs. It’s used access to the US market to build a diamond-export market that funds illegal settlements. I mean, if that’s the way Israel treats its friends, why would Arab countries want to subject themselves to opening up to all that?”
https://invidious.darkness.services/watch?v=y21FiyPoXVc
The cumulative inflation-adjusted deficit created since this first “free” trade deal was signed with Israel in 1984 makes it the absolute worst-performing of all US bilateral trade agreements, and the second-worst of all US trade agreements of any variety, trailing only NAFTA itself – which again, was a result of this deal being pushed through in the first place by Israel’s money, media and political apparatus operating inside the United States on behalf of Israel, and against the wishes of the most powerful established US industry players of the time.
The deal was structured such that Israel maintained its set of fixed and floating tariff and non-tariff barriers, in order to gradually reverse America’s bilateral trade surplus and create a chronic trade deficit solely to Israel’s advantage.
“American industry groups lobbying against the deal at the time foresaw this. Sunkist, Monsanto, the US Bromine Alliance, the American Farm Bureau, Dow Chemical, Hunt Wesson Foods, the AFL-CIO and most other interested US industry groups testified against it before the International Trade Commission. Only a handful of small, mostly pro-Israel, groups backed it.
Injury was added to insult when the US Trade Representative and ITC discovered Israeli agents (including AIPAC) had surreptitiously obtained hundreds of pages of classified trade secrets submitted by opponents of the deal and used it to lobby for passage.
As has now become the norm, the US Department of Justice shut down the FBI investigation just as it was closing in on the Israeli agents and their US collaborators involved in the economic espionage.”
Donald Trump, who was on Jewish Zionist pedophile rapist Jeffrey Epstein’s plane “The Lolita Express” multiple times as was Epstein on Trump’s plane multiple times, and whose name was one of the few circled in Jewish pedophile deep state agent Epstein’s ‘little black book’ – Donald Trump will not do anything about this. At all.
The Financial Times currently has a glowing headline: “Vance to take stage on night highlighting America First foreign policy.”
Just below the headline is the caption: “How Thiel and Silicon Valley funded the sudden rise JD Vance”
Maybe Thiel’s working on a plan to get all that semiconductor manufacturing back in the states? That will make him richer?
It’s all a really, really sick joke at this point.
https://irmep.com/
Remember, Thomas Massie recently said he’s the only congress critter who doesn’t have an ‘AIPAC’ (Jewish Zionist) handler. He and Swanson Foods empire darling Tuck Carlson then went on to say they both like Israel.
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Taiwan must pay for defense. Good. As for Israel, which literally gives us nothing:
As convention opens, Israel only foreign country in new GOP platform
“The Republican convention is set to proceed as planned, despite the assassination attempt. The party platform emphasizes the Abraham Accords, the Iron Dome, and calls for European spending on defense.
Notably, unlike other nations, Israel is not singled out as a country expected to fully fund its defense expenses. “Republicans will strengthen Alliances by ensuring that our Allies must meet their obligations to invest in our Common Defense and by restoring Peace to Europe,” the platform states regarding NATO allies. This stance is not applied to Israel.“
https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/07/15/israel-only-foreign-country-mentioned-in-gop-platform/
Nothing applicable to anyone else applies to the Jewish State of Israel, and they don’t pay. Talk about playing into old canards!
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