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With Biden repeatedly threatening to invade China and destroy the factories in Taiwan, it's clear Apple is just making sure they have a good fallback plan.

bearjaws 3y ago
> With Biden repeatedly threatening to invade China Has he actually said invade China? The most the US has said was when China invades Taiwan, the US will defend them.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > Has he actually said invade China? No. Even with moronically-generous parsing, where Taiwan is considered part of China, there is no U.S. policy of invading Taiwan.
- hackerlight 3y ago
  You have to parse through the rhetorical dishonesty to understand the meaning. In the mind of the radicalized Chinese nationalist, Taiwan is China (remember, they do not give a damn what the people inside Taiwan actually want, those people don't matter), so if Biden says that he will defend Taiwan if it gets invaded, that is equivalent in the mind of the nationalist to Biden saying he'll invade China.
  - jonhohle 3y ago
    The UN also thinks Taiwan is China.
    - KptMarchewa 3y ago
      "UN" does not think more than building does not think. It's an entity for countries to talk.
    - LtdJorge 3y ago
      But what id the stance of UN members on it?
  - lenkite 3y ago
    "In the mind of the radicalized Chinese nationalist, Taiwan is China " Acknowledged formally by the US also. The United States One-China policy was first stated in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972: "the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China". Americans appear to be very eager to forget this for some reason. Sure the US can decide that the Shanghai Communiqué is no longer since China is now becoming a super-power - but it should at-least be recognized that breaking this effectively means a full-fledged War with a near peer military power. No one in the US should pretend to be surprised about it.
pertymcpert 3y ago
It's not an invasion of the country being invaded asks for help.
barbazoo 3y ago
Citation needed
yalogin 3y ago
Oof that was out of left field. Did not expect this here. Obviously wrong

bearjaws 3y ago

> With Biden repeatedly threatening to invade China Has he actually said invade China? The most the US has said was when China invades Taiwan, the US will defend them.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> Has he actually said invade China? No. Even with moronically-generous parsing, where Taiwan is considered part of China, there is no U.S. policy of invading Taiwan.
hackerlight 3y ago
You have to parse through the rhetorical dishonesty to understand the meaning. In the mind of the radicalized Chinese nationalist, Taiwan is China (remember, they do not give a damn what the people inside Taiwan actually want, those people don't matter), so if Biden says that he will defend Taiwan if it gets invaded, that is equivalent in the mind of the nationalist to Biden saying he'll invade China.
- jonhohle 3y ago
  The UN also thinks Taiwan is China.
  - KptMarchewa 3y ago
    "UN" does not think more than building does not think. It's an entity for countries to talk.
  - LtdJorge 3y ago
    But what id the stance of UN members on it?
- lenkite 3y ago
  "In the mind of the radicalized Chinese nationalist, Taiwan is China " Acknowledged formally by the US also. The United States One-China policy was first stated in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972: "the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China". Americans appear to be very eager to forget this for some reason. Sure the US can decide that the Shanghai Communiqué is no longer since China is now becoming a super-power - but it should at-least be recognized that breaking this effectively means a full-fledged War with a near peer military power. No one in the US should pretend to be surprised about it.

pertymcpert 3y ago

It's not an invasion of the country being invaded asks for help.

barbazoo 3y ago

Citation needed

yalogin 3y ago

Oof that was out of left field. Did not expect this here. Obviously wrong