Agreed.

War is not the answer… we can’t have politics by other means… we can’t have Carl von Clausewitz…

But do you hear one single Senator or Congressman state that clearly for the American People.

Actually, the One China Policy was meant to encourage a political solution. The Taiwan Relations Act passed by Congress in 1979, which acknowledges the One China Policy, also has language, ambiguous, about China refraining from military coercive measures… regarding the self-governing status for the island and its People to this day.

So, China recognizes Taiwan’s political system, as a self-governing island and in return the United States recognizes Taiwan is an inseparable Part of China.

It’s a delicate dance… idiot “War Junkies” want to screw that all to pieces.

It is worth noting that, at that time, leaders in Taiwan were always making a big show of champing at the bit to return to the Mainland and re-fight the Chinese civil war, and the US consistently and firmly refused to support the idea, even when the Mainland was going through a lot of instability with the famine, Cultural Revolution etc.

The problem across the Taiwan Strait is a political one, and so must be the solution to it.

But, we are where we are… hopefully, the waters can be calmed.

I have no illusions about China.

They want their place in the Sun.

China has infiltrated & penetrated the United States government and American society to achieve undue influence… influence, okay, but undue influence has to be rooted out at all levels.

And China can be curbed from these abuses on American Soil with determined & consistent action, follow through, and follow up.

China is a smart competitor and adversary… and depending on the circumstances, must be confronted over their actions… the Conquest of the South China Sea is their most flagrant violation of International Law.

Many analysts want to see China as this “gentle giant” with benign intent… I take a different view… China will take advantage where they can or are unchallenged, or face weak opposition.

I’m up to challenging & confronting China.

But peeling Taiwan from China is a recipe for war… which the U. S. would likely lose or only prevail in a pyric victory with heavy loss of life and material destruction… and leave a seething China ready to strike back anyway they could.

Americans do not grasp the reality where China sees Taiwan as a non-negotiable, elemental part of China, full stop.

As opposed to China’s annexation of the South China Sea… which even the Chinese know is a naked Conquest against all notions of Modern International Law.

I draw a Red Line because I know China is dangerous… I draw it where I do because I’m a realist and a patriot… idiots & “War Junkies” insist on making Taiwan the fight against China… it’s stupid because the U. S. doesn’t have an “International Law” leg to stand on regarding Taiwan independence.

China doesn’t have an International Law leg to stand on regarding the South China Sea.

The people in China’s government are Realists & pragmatists… they don’t want war over the South China Sea… but China will go to war over Taiwan if the U. S. insists on attempting to peel off Taiwan from China, that’s a lead pipe cinch… their Red Line.

The people who want war with China are not patriots… they are “War Junkies” wanting their fix… damn the American People’s welfare… “I gotta have more cowbell!”

In the 1980s, Taiwan came close to testing its own nuclear device, and it was the US who blocked them.

Since the 1990s it was publicly known that North Korea had a nuclear weapons program, and in 1994 the US and North Korea negotiated the Agreed Framework for the North to give up its program in exchange for aid for a peaceful nuclear energy program. This agreement broke down in 2003 amid US claims of cheating, and North Korea tested its first weapon in 2006. But where was Mainland China during this time? It’s hard to imagine that the combined leverage of the US and China would not have been enough to block North Korea’s nuclear breakout.

Then if Taiwan decided to restart its nuclear program in the future, which would be a great temptation for them if the US would stop guaranteeing their security, next time should the US block them again? Why should we, if China is not going to reciprocate and help with our non-proliferation goals in other places? A nuclear weapon belonging to Taiwan would not constitute proliferation to a new country, on the understanding that Taiwan and the Mainland are both China.

China has claimed to take almost the whole South China Sea as sovereign territory by Right of Conquest with the build up of coral atolls into military air strips and fortifications.

This has already been adjudicated in the International Court of Justice (arbitration) at the Hague in 2016.

China was found to be in violation of International Law.

There is evidence of vast, massive deposits of hydrocarbons (oil & gas) below the floor of the South China Sea. (fishing rights & “protecting shipping lanes” is for public consumption)

China is recently wrapping itself in the U. N. flag, stating its fealty to the United Nations Charter & International Law.

(And throwing shade @ the U. S. claiming we don’t.)

China is appealing to neutral nations and even shaky allies.

Expose China for their hypocrisy to the International Community of Nations.

Demand binding arbitration on China’s claims to territory by way of Right of Conquest in violation of International Law. War, if necessary, if China fails to accept binding arbitration.

My hunch is China will accept binding arbitration (where China’s claims have already been rejected) rather than war against the United States.

And be exposed (for what they are) to all those they claim benevolence and benign intent to in the International Community (their neighbors).

China will back off the South China Sea Aggression, but won’t back off of China’s sovereignty of Taiwan.

In terms of International Law Taiwan is at the opposite pole of standing… While China’s position in the South China Sea is as brazen & bald a Conquest as any by standards of International Law.

Taiwan is the “Ice Berg” dead ahead. It’s the fool’s gold of South East Asia.

Hydrocarbons in the South China Sea is where the money is at… and the Red Line should be drawn.

The past of Mr. Yoon is an attorney general, the past of Mr. Biden is a lawyer, so they think differently. Lawyer is without principles, while an attorney general must obey law and certain moral principles at least.

Mr. Moon Jae-in represents the South Korea socialism party, competes with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un for the title of South Korea socialism party representative. But Mr. Yoon opposes socialism, which is another difference between him and Biden.

The Washington Declaration this year is the result of South Korean soldiers and Mr. Yoon protesting to the socialism party, but the Democratic Party still keeps its habit of betraying allies, so the Democratic Party perfunctory South Korea with the Washington Declaration.

As the recent release event of the U.S. intelligence papers, the U.S. Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of South Korea cooperate to break the alliance agreement between the United States and South Korea. Because the two socialism parties are working together to break the alliance, Mr. Yoon must ask the U.S. to share nuclear weapons with South Korea for the safety of people in South Korea.

South Korea and Japan ask the United States to share nuclear weapons for a different reason than the reason why the United States shares nuclear weapons with West Germany. The latter is to reflect the wrong policy of the German Social Democratic Party, so that West Germany must live and die with the United States. The former is to keep the alliance between the United States and South Korea, so South Korea lives and dies with the United States voluntarily.

God bless America and Korea.

Contrast that with Trump who used to spend an hour or more speaking to the press on the way to his helicopter, and famously rarely uses notes at his rallies.

You can also see the results Trump got for Americans with a string of successes, like energy independence, reduced illegal aliens, the border wall, lowest ever unemployment for minorities, etc. Compared to nothing but horrific statistics coming with Biden in the White House. Inflation, deficit spending, Covid deaths, skyrocketing illegal immigration and crime, Russia invades Ukraine because the Authoritarians don’t fear him like they did Trump, the list goes on.

The United States wants to lineup Japan, South Korea, and anybody else they can “rope in” to back the U. S. quest to peel away Taiwan from Chinese Sovereignty.

Let’s be clear, the Chinese government and, perhaps, more important, the Chinese People, see Taiwan as part of China… as does official United States’ One China Policy.

Various historians search for historical analogies… it’s part of what they do.

I assert the Delian League (The Athenian League) is the analogy which should concern American policy makers.

A great democracy, Athens, the most powerful city-state among the Greek city-states enlisted all the Greeks to repulse the Persian Empire… and was successful.

But then Athens started using the gold & men of the lesser Greek city-states for Athens own imperial agenda and to attack other uncooperative Greek city-states.

Athens & Sparta… the other great power Greek city-state fell into military conflict.

Athens demanded all the Delian League join their fight against Sparta… many did, but many did not… did not want to involve themselves in an intra-Greek conflict.

Athens put the financial & warrior squeeze on its allies… with often brutal reprisals for failure to fall in line with Athens “requests.”

What am I getting to:

Our Asian allies privately have great reluctance in falling in line with the U. S. scheme of peeling of Taiwan from China, including as mentioned, South Korea.

The United States has suffered a series of diplomatic failures… other nation-states are tiring of “towing the line” of dubious U. S. foreign policy objectives.

What eventually happened to the greatest democracy in Classical Antiquity?

It lost against Sparta, in large part because of hubris, arrogance, and abuse of its allies.

Wow to the greatest democracy in the Modern Era if it repeats the fate of Athens.

The ambivalence of South Korea is a manifestation of this “my way or the highway” foreign policy of the United States.

The “my way or the highway” approach to geopolitics is a recipe for disaster in the dawn of a Multi Polar World.

U. S. foreign policy is failing. Roping in our Asian allies to the Taiwan Project… is disaster waiting to happen.

In sept 2022, yoon was caught speaking on a hot mic describing certain US congressmen as ‘fuckers’.

Dementia joe ought to be fully aware that yoon isn’t the typical canadian or australian type of US lackey.

Koreans are known to be harsh people or people capable of being harsh when circumstances require them to be so.

During ww2, many korean guards employed by jap military were generally or widely regarded as some of the meanest humans that ever walked on Earth.

Dementia joe should know that.

The Biden regime could ‘fuck-up’ a free soup.