Fresh from his summit in Beijing, the US president warned against a formal declaration of independence by the island.

Taiwan has insisted it is a sovereign, independent nation, after US President Donald Trump cautioned it against formally declaring independence from China.

  • perestroika@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    37·
    22 hours ago

    It took only a few hours after Trump warned Taiwan not to try declaring independence…

    …for the Taiwanese foreign ministry to remind that Taiwan is already independent.

    Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has previously stated that Taiwan does not need to declare formal independence because it already sees itself as a sovereign nation.

    On Saturday, presidential spokesperson Karen Kuo said it was “self-evident” that Taiwan was “a sovereign, independent democratic country”.

    She added, however, that Taiwan was committed to maintaining the status quo with China - in which Taiwan neither declares independence from China nor unites with it.

    Many Taiwanese consider themselves to be part of a separate nation, though most are in favour of maintaining their current status.

    As for the actual consequences: in the best case, nothing changes and maybe the US will get a new president soon. Because explaining the depth of the US-Taiwan interdependence to the current president is clearly a too big job.

    The US is a client state of Taiwan just as much as Taiwan is a client state of the US. If one gets in trouble, the other also gets in trouble. Actually, most of the world gets in trouble in case of Taiwan, so everyone who needs a device with some CPU or memory has a vested interest in nothing whatsovever happening with regard to Taiwan. And this probably even includes people in mainland China, although I think they can reasonably claim to be almost independent of Taiwan. :) I certainly cannot, I honestly declare considerable dependence on Taiwan. :)

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      18 hours ago

      It took only a few hours after Trump warned Taiwan not to try declaring independence…

      It’s been standing US policy going back to the Nixon Administration not to recognize Taiwanese independence.

      You can’t lay this shitbird at Trump’s feet. Go blame Eisenhower for his choice of VP.

      • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        14 hours ago

        Yeah nothing current can be blamed on this orange turd. If it wasn’t for the ones that came before him you would be part of the UK and who knows trump would have been some sort of assistant to the king. Grow the fuck up and own the fact that us has presently fucked the entire planet by voting for these shitbirds twice.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          44 minutes ago

          Yeah nothing current can be blamed on this orange turd.

          There’s plenty to blame him for. Iran is a great example. Trump pulled a trigger that no other president was willing to touch, going on 47 years.

          But the policy he’s stating wrt Taiwan is the exact same policy we’ve been operating under since before he was born.

          Grow the fuck up

          “The adults in the room” crowd has been shitting the bed since Reagan. I cannot imagine a bigger tell that your foreign policy is shit than “My policies are mature and yours are for babies”.

          Particularly when the policies would accelerate yet another armed conflict.