Opinion | The Taiwanese Are Worried That the U.S. Will Abandon Ukraine
www.wsj.com
Japan, Australia and South Korea also see the war with Russia as a test of American resolve.

This was hands down my favorite bit from the article:

Some even maintain that every dollar spent on Ukraine is a waste of taxpayer money that could be better used on domestic priorities, such as combating the spread of fentanyl.

These arguments are misguided and dangerous.

How dare they suggest that money would be better spent addressing domestic problems than on a proxy war half way across the world. That’s misguided and dangerous thinking.

I also love how the article takes it for granted that US must prop up puppet regimes in Asia as if that’s somehow in the interest of the people living in US.

  • Addfwyn
    381·
    10 months ago

    where leaders told me this month that a major decline in U.S. military assistance to Kyiv would embolden Beijing and weaken deterrence in Asia.

    I don’t think that is a common fear shared by the people, WSJ should have reported that Taiwanese leadership are worried. There is not a single mention of what the people of Taiwan want. I have many friends from uni there now, and that is not an express concern of any of them. More than anything they want to be left alone with things the way they are, not dragged into an armed conflict for American interests.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind
      192·
      10 months ago

      I mean, western media thinking of colonised Asians as a hive mind completely enthralled by usian ubermenschen is not unexpected, it is their standard mode.

    • relayEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      If the US just bails on Taiwan, the CPC just pushes them out of power or they get elected out of office. Do even the die hard one china policy people want any harm to befall the Kumintang leaders?

      • cayde6ml
        151·
        10 months ago

        I wouldn’t mind those cockroaches known as the Kuomintang being taken out (that’s an unfair insult to cockroaches), but I almost always prefer for conflicts to be solved peacefully at all possible.

          • cayde6ml
            121·
            10 months ago

            I don’t know much about the DPP, admittedly, so I’ll try to not talk out of my ass. I read that they are even more resolute in their Taiwanese identity than the Kuomintang are, and they seem like stuckup blue MAGAs.

            • Buchenstr
              131·
              10 months ago

              DPP are ‘social democrats’ of taiwan, but they’re insanely hawkish and war-mongering. Even the Kuomintang doesn’t have the same rabid anti-chinese sentiment as the DPP. In fact the KMT has even called for closer collaboration for the mainland government, so these guys have now fallen out of favour from the western imperialists, and the DPP is also edging closer to fascist apologia and ultranationalism. In short they’re nothing but a puppet party who’ll only dance to the US’s tunes. At least the KMT have some common sense to them.