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Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday that Taiwan could be “discarded” if Donald Trump returns to the White House and implements his America First foreign policy.
Trump said China was reluctant to take such drastic action “because they don’t want to lose all those chip plants,” but he was convinced Chinese dictator Xi Jinping — who he described as “a very good friend of mine until Covid” — is still determined to capture Taiwan someday. “They took almost 100% of our chip industry, I give them credit. That’s because stupid people were running the country. We should have never let that happen. Now we’re giving them billions of dollars to build new chips in our country, and then they’re going to take that too, in other words, they’ll build it but then they’ll bring it back to their country,” he said.
Outside the circumspect remarks of the Taiwanese government, some analysts believe Trump is serious about driving a hard bargain to obtain more defense spending from Taiwan, possibly by arranging more favorable terms for U.S. semiconductor imports. As for outgoing President Joe Biden, he had a habit of making blustery pronouncements in favor of defending Taiwan against China, only for his White House to walk them back when China complained. The longstanding U.S. diplomatic posture toward Taiwan has been described as “,” which means everyone knows the U.S. is legally committed to defend Taiwan, but top-level U.S. officials do not talk about fighting China in blunt terms.
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