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plawolf

plawolf

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Temstar said:
I think Paraguay and Honduras demanding more money is entirely within reason. All these years these countries that recognizes ROC see their neighbors get BRI investment and new infrastructure while they got a pittance in comparison. Then last year with Lithuania ROC gave them a billion dollars and Lithuania didn't even recognizance ROC, just let them have a "Taiwanese Affairs Office". If you were one of those 13 you too would be upset at that unequal treatment and demand a billion.
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High inflation on even bribe money, what has the world come to?
 
Temstar

Temstar

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Pompeo was a no show when Tsai went to his home patch Hudson Institute, that's pretty interesting. Biden and co must be doing a lot of leg work behind the scene.

Note on this occasion Tsai didn't go to Hudson Institute in Washington, instead the institute held the event in New York.
 
KampfAlwin

KampfAlwin

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Temstar said:
Pompeo was a no show when Tsai went to his home patch Hudson Institute, that's pretty interesting. Biden and co must be doing a lot of leg work behind the scene.

Note on this occasion Tsai didn't go to Hudson Institute in Washington, instead the institute held the event in New York.
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So, is there anything substantial coming out of this visit, or is this just one of those feel-good PR campaigns?
 
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Temstar

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KampfAlwin said:
So, is there anything substantial coming out of this visit, or is this just one of those feel-good PR campaigns?
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So far nothing, all signs point to the Americans wanting to play this one down. According to Guanqi the Americans seems to have deliberately not tip their hand on the scale to make it seem like the local Chinese diaspora is 50/50 on welcoming her/calling her a traitor. Hence all these videos we are seeing of all those Fujianese societies organizing rallies waving red flag and singing that Korean war song where they seem greatly out number pro-DPP people.

On this matter I saw someone theorize on Taiwanese talk show. The idea is that after McCarthy announced he was going to Taiwan CPC must have indicated to Biden that if he goes then PLA will put on a show much like Pelosi's visit. Neither Biden nor McCarthy want a repeat of that (recall Pelosi lost her position after midterm) but they can't just straight up call it off or they will lose face. So instead they engineered this crazy thing where they lured Tsai and her team into thinking if she comes to the states they will welcome her with fanfare. Once that trip is announced they then go "see, now McCarthy doesn't have to go to Taiwan because she's coming to us instead." So crisis averted.

But they're not done, now that she is there they're giving her the cold shoulder as part of what Xi would call create the right conditions for dialogue. They're unlikely to have told Tsai and her team this before the trip so basically she's been played as a fool and used as political bargaining chip.

It's not clear if Ma's trip to mainland is planned deliberately to coincide with Tsai's trip to put up a clear contrast of Tsai's treatment in the US vs the fairly warm treatment Ma is getting in mainland. This may be just a plan by Ma or just a KMT plan. I personally think KMT is too dumb to come up with this on their own and this must be Ma's doing and it's having a strong effect in boosting blue camp morale at the moment.
 
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