• exanime@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    However, China doesn’t need to threaten an invasion to do this. There is no reason China can’t relinquish their claim on Taiwan and just build a casual trade relationship with Taiwan.

    Not justifying China’s methods or intentions at all, but you know what you are claiming is impossible

    The USA can (and has before) forbidden third parties to run businesses with other countries… As they have already done to China itself.

    It would be completely naive for China to assume they won’t be cut off from the very valuable industry Taiwan has once the USA establishes itself as the sole/mayority buyer