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Only Cuba looks weird to me there. Normalising relationships with Taiwan is a great idea, and Iran stirs conflict throughout the region.
by peteretep 6y ago
Only Cuba looks weird to me there. Normalising relationships with Taiwan is a great idea, and Iran stirs conflict throughout the region.
- ardy42 6y ago> Normalising relationships with Taiwan is a great idea, and Iran stirs conflict throughout the region. I personally, I'd agree with the Taiwan thing in isolation, but this last minute decision is clearly intended to put Biden in a bind: reverse it, and he pisses off Americans who reasonably have favorable feelings towards Taiwan; keep it, and diplomacy with China gets a lot harder. I'm speculating, but my guess is the Iran thing is meant to throw a wrench into any attempt to restart the Iran nuclear deal. Also, note the Iran thing was actually nonsense about Al Qaeda, not Iran's own conflict-stirring.