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The US didn't have the same sort of agreement with Ukraine as it does with Taiwan as far as I know. With Taiwan, we have the Taiwan Relations Act, which spells out how much support we need to give Taiwan.I do not think China should be permitted to attack Taiwan either. I see it very similar to Russia/Ukraine, where we pushed back hard when Russia attacked. We did not go to war with Russia over it, but I don't know all of the nuances between US-Ukraine and US-Taiwan relations so I can't say exactly what an appropriate response is.
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Sorry, maybe I misunderstood what you were asking. You asked whether it was now or before Trump that China was committing genocide, destabilizing the West, and not respecting the sovereignty of nations. The answer is, both. It's doing it now and it was doing it before Trump. The issue is that many of China's more recent issues are the result of Xi's policies and agenda. He took office in 2012 and sort of hit full stride about the time Trumpism became rampant. So, while Trump didn't do any favours with relations regarding China, China was well on its way to being a problem. I don't think that would've changed even if Clinton had been elected.This is not really what was asked. What was asked was whether they were engaging in misinformation during the Obama admin. You were citing misinformation, I'm asking that we differentiate between China's actions pre-Trump and post-Trump.
Attempted yes, but didn't succeed because we have open media that is harder to suppress. We were all well aware that cases were being suppressed, some just chose to believe Trump's BS instead of what was actually going on. But if you wanted to know the truth, it wasn't terribly difficult to find it.During COVID, the Trump admin actively attempted to suppress our case reporting. In his view, if we didn't report cases, we didn't have cases, or a pandemic.
They suppressed COVID information and didn't allow an investigation because they're the enemy. If we were allies or at least on decent terms, they would've worked with us.You were using COVID as a way to establish that they're an enemy.
Well, the CCP actively fought US forces during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Our relations were completely frozen between 1949 and 1971. JFK thought China was at least, if not more dangerous, than the Soviet Union. Chinese relations sort of normalized, but almost every president had a rather negative outlook on China. US-Chinese relations took a big hit in 1989 with the Tiananmen Square massacre. Things have been relatively frosty since, too, especially with the defense and arms sales to Taiwan. It's a simplified view of the whole thing, but China has been an adversary of the US since at least the 1940s when the CCP really took hold of the country. It's not exclusively a Trump thing, although like I've said, Trump didn't do anything to repair relations either and in some ways made it worse. But Xi did his share of contributing to poor relations too.Here's my point. If you want to establish that China was an enemy before Trump, we should be looking at US-China relations before Trump. Not after or during.