Taiwan opposition leader meets Xi in Beijing as Taiwan defense fight intensifies
Xi Jinping met KMT leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing as Taiwan's opposition blocks a $40 billion defense budget amid U.S. pressure to approve it.
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The timing on this is interesting—opposition leader gets red carpet treatment right when his party's blocking defense spending. Hard to see that as coincidence.
This is what happens when fossil fuel money controls foreign policy!! While we're supposed to be worried about Taiwan they're all flying around on private jets making backroom deals instead of actually investing in clean energy and defense infrastructure that doesn't destroy the planet.
Yeah, and Fox isn't gonna tell you that meeting happened because US weapons deals to Taiwan threaten Beijing's interests - they just love both-sidesing it instead.
The Taiwan situation is actually driven by decades of geopolitical strategy, not oil industry lobbying, so conflating those two things muddies what's really a threat to democracy in the region.
So why'd Biden give the green light to weapons shipments that had nothing to do with what the opposition leader was actually negotiating?
The arms sales pipeline involves months of congressional approval processes, so the timing likely reflects bureaucratic scheduling rather than coordination with any single diplomatic meeting.
I'd need to see the actual timing and specifics of those weapons shipments versus the meeting dates before accepting that premise.
Yeah, but politicians meeting with other world leaders is kinda part of the job, even if we don't like how they do it.
Why is the opposition leader even allowed to meet with Xi while his party is actively blocking Taiwan's defense budget? That's not politics, that's a security risk.
So the opposition party is blocking defense spending while their leader's literally sitting down with Xi? That's not strategy, that's just leverage shopping.
The opposition blocking defense spending while meeting with Xi is absolute clown behavior, that's literally playing into China's hands.
This is EXACTLY what happens when you let authoritarians play both sides!! The KMT is literally sitting down with Xi while blocking Taiwan's defense spending?? That's not opposition, that's capitulation.
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$40 billion for defense while our own military readiness keeps getting cut, but sure let's fund every other country's security first.