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This is old news. I'm not a fan of Trump, but his gambit on withdrawing from the UN Postal Union is one of the few good things that came from his administration

This is old news. I'm not a fan of Trump, but his gambit on withdrawing from the UN Postal Union is one of the few good things that came from his administration.

mixologic 6y ago
Even a stopped clock, gets the right time twice a day.
- abc-xyz 6y ago
  He seems to get it right a lot when it comes to China. - He refer to the Wuhan Virus as the China/Chinese Virus - He started a trade war with China (resulting in companies moving out of China, Huawei not being allowed to use Android, etc) - He was the first US president to talk directly to Taiwan's president since 1979 - He made the largest arms sale to Taiwan in the past 20 years - Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act was signed under his administration - TAIPEI Act was signed under his administration - Meng Wanzhou was arrested under his administration - China Mobile was blocked from offering services in the US, citing national security risks .. and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I was personally against his presidency during the first election, but his actions towards China is enough for him to garner my support even if I disagree with him on practically everything else.
  - tathougies 6y ago
    Same. Tough on china, no regime change... sounds good to me.
  - addicted 6y ago
    Misnaming a virus for racist reasons is an achievement? How about focusing more on testing and not allowing hundreds of thousands of Americans to die instead. Or maybe just wearing a freakin mask and not making that a political issue and leading to tens of thousands of unnecessary American deaths. The trade war has led to very few, if any, companies move to China. The only major change is that China buys a lot less agricultural products from the US requiring the administration to straight up pay tens of billions to Midwest farmers so Trump wouldn’t lose their vote entirely. Not sure what talking to the Taiwanese President has to do with anything when Taiwan is more afraid of China right now than it has ever been because he won’t publicly agree to protect it. Yeah, the largest arms sale is still minuscule and is gonna do nothing to stop China from taking over Taiwan militarily if they wanted. And China has taken over Hong Kong almost entirely and there hasn’t been a peep from the US govt. Instead, the Trump administrations response was to punish Hong Kong and start treating it as if it is already a part of China and the 2 systems 1 nation rule doesn’t apply anymore. Nice. He had 1 person arrested by the Canadians. That’s brilliant. China Mobile would have been blocked by any administration. Because the US government used to be run by competents, who didn’t crow about every minuscule move they made, because they were focusing on massive changes that would actually have teeth (such as the TPP) you are likely not even aware of the fact that Obama’s administration blocked a bunch of Chinese private actions. And they were actually successful and did not require breaking international law therefore making US allies also suspicious of the US. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aixtron-m-a-fujian-idUSKBN13X16H https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aixtron-m-a-fujian-idUSKB... https://www.law360.com/articles/410956/chinese-co-wants-wind-farm-deal-voided-after-obama-block https://www.law360.com/articles/410956/chinese-co-wants-wind...
    - president 6y ago
      Your opinions aside, the current administration has been the first in decades to stand up to China both in philosophy and in policy. You can't say the same about Clinton, Bush, Obama et al who actually empowered the Chinese by letting them off easy on the Tiananmen Square Massacre, allowing them to join the WTO, and militarize the South China Seas, among other things.
redis_mlc 6y ago
You can thank Trump for stopping airline arrivals from China on Jan. 31. He went against the entire world to protect the US, and took a lot of heat for it. Everybody now agrees he made the right call, but I haven't seen any apologies.
president 6y ago
Looking at all the flagged child posts, seems you have invoked the wrath of the "orange man bad" patrol. Very sad state of affairs for critical discourse in this country.

This is old news. I'm not a fan of Trump, but his gambit on withdrawing from the UN Postal Union is one of the few good things that came from his administration.

mixologic 6y ago

Even a stopped clock, gets the right time twice a day.

abc-xyz 6y ago
He seems to get it right a lot when it comes to China. - He refer to the Wuhan Virus as the China/Chinese Virus - He started a trade war with China (resulting in companies moving out of China, Huawei not being allowed to use Android, etc) - He was the first US president to talk directly to Taiwan's president since 1979 - He made the largest arms sale to Taiwan in the past 20 years - Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act was signed under his administration - TAIPEI Act was signed under his administration - Meng Wanzhou was arrested under his administration - China Mobile was blocked from offering services in the US, citing national security risks .. and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I was personally against his presidency during the first election, but his actions towards China is enough for him to garner my support even if I disagree with him on practically everything else.
- tathougies 6y ago
  Same. Tough on china, no regime change... sounds good to me.
- addicted 6y ago
  Misnaming a virus for racist reasons is an achievement? How about focusing more on testing and not allowing hundreds of thousands of Americans to die instead. Or maybe just wearing a freakin mask and not making that a political issue and leading to tens of thousands of unnecessary American deaths. The trade war has led to very few, if any, companies move to China. The only major change is that China buys a lot less agricultural products from the US requiring the administration to straight up pay tens of billions to Midwest farmers so Trump wouldn’t lose their vote entirely. Not sure what talking to the Taiwanese President has to do with anything when Taiwan is more afraid of China right now than it has ever been because he won’t publicly agree to protect it. Yeah, the largest arms sale is still minuscule and is gonna do nothing to stop China from taking over Taiwan militarily if they wanted. And China has taken over Hong Kong almost entirely and there hasn’t been a peep from the US govt. Instead, the Trump administrations response was to punish Hong Kong and start treating it as if it is already a part of China and the 2 systems 1 nation rule doesn’t apply anymore. Nice. He had 1 person arrested by the Canadians. That’s brilliant. China Mobile would have been blocked by any administration. Because the US government used to be run by competents, who didn’t crow about every minuscule move they made, because they were focusing on massive changes that would actually have teeth (such as the TPP) you are likely not even aware of the fact that Obama’s administration blocked a bunch of Chinese private actions. And they were actually successful and did not require breaking international law therefore making US allies also suspicious of the US. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aixtron-m-a-fujian-idUSKBN13X16H https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aixtron-m-a-fujian-idUSKB... https://www.law360.com/articles/410956/chinese-co-wants-wind-farm-deal-voided-after-obama-block https://www.law360.com/articles/410956/chinese-co-wants-wind...
  - president 6y ago
    Your opinions aside, the current administration has been the first in decades to stand up to China both in philosophy and in policy. You can't say the same about Clinton, Bush, Obama et al who actually empowered the Chinese by letting them off easy on the Tiananmen Square Massacre, allowing them to join the WTO, and militarize the South China Seas, among other things.

redis_mlc 6y ago

You can thank Trump for stopping airline arrivals from China on Jan. 31. He went against the entire world to protect the US, and took a lot of heat for it. Everybody now agrees he made the right call, but I haven't seen any apologies.

president 6y ago

Looking at all the flagged child posts, seems you have invoked the wrath of the "orange man bad" patrol. Very sad state of affairs for critical discourse in this country.