China is trying to divide the US and Europe on Ukraine!
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is making an offer India could find hard to refuse.
And is the US changing its Taiwan policy?
That and more on this week’s China News Headlines.
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US President Donald Trump is making a lot of folks angry.
The good news is, if you make enough people angry,
you’re bound to make at least some of the right people angry.
Because a change to the State Department’s website regarding Taiwan
has sparked a fiery rebuke from Beijing.
Previously, on the State Department’s U.S. Relations with Taiwan fact sheet,
it said “we do not support Taiwan independence.”
That line has been removed.
Does that mean the US now supports Taiwan independence?
Who knows. Certainly not Beijing.
At a regular news conference on Monday,
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
Guo Jiakun urged the US to immediately correct its mistakes
or risk further damage to Sino-US relation
s and said the US should act with the utmost caution.
Yes, I’m sure King Donald Trump is worried about
potentially upsetting people with wild things posted to a website.
In response, the State Departmentclaimed that the update to the website is routine
and pointed out that the US’ “one China policy” is still mentioned there.
A spokesperson for the department has clarified
that it doesn’t support any unilateral changes to the status quo from any side,
which also now appears on the fact sheet.
This isn’t the first time this has happened.
In fact, that line was also cut back in 2022,
although it was added back a month later.
Will the change hang around this time?
Only time will tell.
But Taiwan is considering a multi-billion dollar arms purchase from the US.
The talks are ongoing, but three sources said on Monday that the package would
include coastal defense cruise missiles and HIMARS,
with one source saying “I would be very surprised if it was less than $8 billion.
Somewhere between $7 billion to $10 billion.”
The US might want to send Guo Jiakun an edible arrangement as a thank you,
because his tirade was the best sales pitch possible
to make Taiwan want to buy a bunch of weapons.
The package is intended to demonstrate the US’ commitment to defending the island,
especially after National Security Advisor Mike Walt
z said he wished to speed up arms deliveries to Taipei.
HIMARS, in particular, has provento be effective in Ukraine against Russian forces,
and Taiwan–like the CCP–has closely been observing that war to see what works and what doesn’t.
But Taiwan isn’t the only Asian country looking for US weapons to defend against China.
President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are discussing a trade route
through Israel, along with a boost in arms sales to India.
So I guess maybe Trump should send Guo two edible arrangements
The proposed trade route would run from India through the UAE, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, and Israel to Europe,
basically circumventing the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative.
This plan builds on one initiated by former President Biden in 2023.
In addition, Modi and Trump discussed an expansion of US military sales to India
starting in 2025.
India wants to modernize its military, and, since 2008,
the country has agreed to buy more than $20 billion in US weapons
, but these talks would expand on that.
Trump also said that the US would eventually provide India with F-35 stealth fighter jets,
although he didn’t say exactly when.
It looks like BRICS might have some upcoming trouble with internal cohesion and partnership.
But Trump has even more to offer India!
Like mediation to ease India-China tensions.
in 2020, Trump offered his help in…
Mediating India’s border disputes with China.
And during his joint press briefing with Modi, Trump restated the offer.
Trump: “And I look at India, I do see the skirmishes on the border,
which are quite vicious, and I guess they continue to go on.
If I could be of help, I'd love to help,
because that should be stopped. That's been going on for a long time”
Why is Trump so confident he’d be a good mediator?
I mean, what does he know about the art of the deal?
Modi himself didn’t react to the offer
. But the Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misriin a later press briefing rejected the offer.
He said the issue was a bilateral one between Beijing and New Delhi.
It’s a shame.
I think Trump could have gotten a gold toilet thrown into the deal.
China is set to build its first deep-water station under the sea!
Yes… Under the sea, under the- that’s as much as
I can do before Disney hits us with a copyright claim.
The facility is expected to become operational by 2030
and will be housed in the South China Sea.
Which, I’m sure, has nothing at all to do with cementing the CCP’s illegal
claims to the area!
This would be like me building a treehouse on my neighbor’s
property and yelling, “Get off my lawn, invader!”
The station will focus on researching the
deep sea and exploration for methane hydrates and other energy resources.
No doubt they’ll share the information with other countries in the region!
This facility is meant to make China
look like a major scientific power when it comes to deep sea research
, particularly compared to the US and Russia.
Because while artificial intelligence
can help with this facility
, it’s also meant to sustain teams of scientists for several weeks.
Fortunately, the scientists already have lots of experience being locked
in claustrophobic conditions for weeks on end.
And after the break, just what is China’s position on Ukraine?
Welcome back.
China is sending mixed signals regarding the war in Ukraine.
In the past, China has offered to be a mediator in the conflict.
And last week, according to anonymous sources cited by the Wall Street Journal,
they made the offer again,
trying to play the role of peacemaker in Ukraine.
The WSJ reports that “part of the proposal involves Beijing
acting as a ‘guarantor’ by sending peacekeeping troops to the region.”
The White House didn’t say if they had received such an offer but rejected it out of hand,
possibly because any mediation done by China
would completely exclude Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy .
Although some say Trump is kind of doing that already.
And Europe also expressed skepticism,
citing China’s aid to Russia during the war.
China’s desire to get involved in Ukraine
might have something to do with the country’s mineral wealth.
According to the National Interest, “the combination of Russia’s military presence in Ukraine
and China’s economic
might give [China, Russia, and North Korea]
a window of opportunity to exploit the minerals with
far-reaching implications for global security and global power dynamics.”
And anyone who has a problem with it,
Russia’s gonna toss them right out that window of opportunity.
So, last week, China said it wants to be involved in the peace negotiations.
But then, earlier this week,
Beijing responded to a US proposal for
Chinese peacekeepers in Ukraine.
With a resounding “no comment.”
In response to the proposal, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun,
he’s had a busy week said
“we don’t comment on a hypothetical question.
China always upholds a just position on the issue of the Ukraine crisis
, and we’ve made this very clear on multiple occasions.”
I couldn’t agree more!
China has made its position very clear!
But not just.
It seems clear that all of this is part of some kind of grand game
between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump,
but what are the plays? That’s unclear.
Some say China is seeking to exploit the growing US-Europe
divide amid Trump’s foreign policy shifts.
After all, at the Munich Security Conference recently,
where the new US administration clashed with European leaders,
China tried presenting itself as a stable and cooperative partner.
Despite being about as stable as a house of cards on a see-saw.
Perhaps China hopes that by stepping into a European conflict,
they can make a deal that will reduce or even remove European and US tariffs.
“Some analysts even suggest that China could exploit gaps in US-EU coordination
on economic policies,
making it easier for Beijing to navigate Western trade restrictions.”
Which is stupid because China isn’t going to dump loads of money into EU security.
China is not going to step in and fund all the things the US used to fund.
They’re actually strategic about how they use their foreign investments.
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