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>Not only do I know what I mean, I know that you know what I mean. Yes, which is why I also addressed your post without making use of that. >And yes, Taiwan i
by boomboomsubban 6y ago
>Not only do I know what I mean, I know that you know what I mean.
Yes, which is why I also addressed your post without making use of that.
>And yes, Taiwan is moving in the direction of closer ties to China.
The US is currently increasing it's military budget to "prevent Chinese invasion of Taiwan" so I don't really agree with that. Even disagreeing there means they cared more about the US than China for the past sixty years.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> Even disagreeing there means they cared more about the US than China for the past sixty years. Yeah, I don't dispute that. I would say they care more now, too. But they're shifting. And Taiwan is the absolute best case for a regional power looking somewhere other than China.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoI don't understand how you can say both that and >Vietnam can have its own opinion on anything. But it will never, under any circumstances, consider America's opinion to be more important than China's.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoOK, fair enough. If Vietnam and China were in a hot war, and Vietnam sought and received American help, Vietnam would likely give more weight to America than to China. I don't think this is likely enough to bother considering, but it's technically possible. Cessation of active hostilities would see attitudes swinging back the other way, even against a background of passive hostilities, as we see in Taiwan.