Summary
Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Koo said the US will not abandon the Indo-Pacific, calling it a “core national interest.”
Heightened fears arose after a Trump-Zelenskyy exchange raised questions about Washington’s reliability.
Taiwan plans to boost defense spending and assist TSMC’s US expansion, partly addressing Trump’s earlier complaints.
Trump also urged Taiwan to raise its defense budget to 10% of GDP, far above its current 2.45%.
With China’s ongoing threats, Taipei sees its partnership with the US as essential for maintaining regional stability.
Then they are completely-foolish.
Trump couldn’t care less about the real long-term interest of the US of A: he’s smashing the US to smithereens for sake of his importance, throughout the next 8-ish years.
( no there won’t be any replacement of him through election: it’s too late for that, now:
the Dems had their chance, in 2024, & relied on their filter-bubble & their Hopium.
The opportunity’s completely gone, & Civil War Part2 will begin roughly in 2027-9, when even the deniers are forced into seeing that it’s too late, & it should last a few years )
The Republicans’ butchering civil-rights is anti-fragile: it’ll only escalate.
& as for any proof that Trump’s values couldn’t care less about the human-lives dependent on the old way?
USAID’s gutting was the intentional severing of thousands of medical lifelines.
Extrapolate those Trump-values globally, & then you’re seeing the actual Trump, Putin’s apprentice.
Please Asia do not rely on Hopium as the Democratic Party did…
Making-believing’s the most worthless “defence” there is.
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