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Have you... Read the official KMT policy?

Taiwan is not the DPP and the DPP is not Taiwan. The fact that everyone in the West seems to think this is the case is a product of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in "speaker fees" to US politicians and influential people visiting Taiwan.

It's important to remember that in the US, political aims are achieved by funding think tanks and political parties and "independent protests" rather than on funding the government at large. So, I'm attributing the actions of the decision makers in the US (Republican officials, key Republican decision makers) to American policy at large. After all, in a two-party system, the Republicans will eventually regain power and they will follow the policy of these key decision makers. It's rather odd that the decision makers in American politics aren't government officials, but I guess that's the wonders of a two-party democracy. You can say that Koch (for example) isn't an American government official, but then I'd ask you what defines a government official if not a high degree of influence over government policy.

On the Freedom Convoy protest bullshit:

Conservatives in the U.S., including right-wing media and high-profile Republicans, are vocalizing their support for the Canadian convoy and donating money. 

How American right-wing funding for Canadian trucker protests could sway U.S. politics

U.S. Republicans vow to probe GoFundMe decision halting Canada trucker donations

On funding for Canadian "independent think tanks"

How a conservative US network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada

U.S. Republican Koch oil billionaires help fund the Fraser Institute. Why the Fraser Institute?

On direct funding to politicians ("bribes" or what have you)

The US funds the International Democrat Union, who directly gave Stephen Harper a cushy job after he was ousted as PM in 2015.

On blatant economic favoritism by the DOJ to crush Canadian businesses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSeries_dumping_petition_by_Boeing

Maybe the Democrats are better, but from what I've seen all they do is not actively make things substantially worse.

On the Chinese political scale, Xi would be seen as right-moderate. His rhetoric is in line with a good chunk of Chinese citizens, but ostracizes Shanghai and some of the southeastern coastal elite.

Famously, Xi Jinping said "houses should be for living, not for speculation."

The notion that China's growth is slowing is true, but I think it lacks context. For the past decade or so, Chinese economic growth has been buoyed by a burgeoning construction sector. With changes to economic policy a few years back, that sector is seeing contraction and regressing back to replacement rate. Real estate shrank from nearly 30% of GDP to less than 20%. Yet, China is still reporting GDP growth in excess of 5% this year. Eventually the real estate industry will plateau, but nobody really knows where or when.

Sonar is fucking terrifying. It's lethal to marine life as well as humans, and the fact that we're happy to spam it out into the ocean is an ecological tragedy.

The fact that Russia's prison system has shit for doctors isn't surprising to me. Russia, the country notorious for penal military units and penal labour, doesn't have adequate healthcare for prisoners? No way...

Why did India have a military base in the Maldives in the first place?

Would you rather rely on solar energy or no energy at all?

Who's meeting the demand of emerging economies for solar panels?

It's not the US, who's steadfastly adopted an economic protectionist stance.

It's not China, who can't keep up with their domestic demand for solar panels.

It's not the EU, who's too stuck in a regulatory quagmire to meaningfully invest in solar panel manufacturing.

It's not India, who, like China, can't keep up with their domestic demand.

It's also not going to be ASEAN, because they too are supply-constrained.

Solar panels don't magically appear.

I'm saying that the DPP is primarily responsible for destabilizing cross-Strait relations. I'm really not sure why you're arguing with this: it's the same reasoning used to justify the attempts to overthrow Castro in Cuba as well as the actual coups of multiple South American countries. They became ideologically unaligned with a global superpower and had to go. Geopolitics has not tangibly changed since then, except for China supplanting the ex-USSR as the "big bad" in the West.

The fact that there's been no KMT coup, despite KMT officials basically controlling the entire military, is a testament to the restraint of all parties.

The US is literally funding the right-wing party in Canada to be more conservative, more extreme, less secular, and more friendly to US interests.

We can't do ANYTHING about it. We're already America's removed.

Ahh, makes sense. That's so cool! Do you know what kind of priority a hospital would have if they were to ration electricity? Would an MRI machine be high on that list?

The Budapest Memorandum gave countries a ton of lenience, including to intervene "for self-defense" and only maintained territorial integrity for the existing Ukrainian state (defined as one without foreign military or economic coercion).

Russia justified their violation of the Budapest Memorandum by pointing to US intervention and funding in Euromaidan to overthrow the existing Ukrainian government as coercion which already violated the Budapest Memorandum.

Ukraine shouldn't have signed the Budapest Memorandum as it was. It was designed by the Russians and Americans to remove a potential nuclear adversary without providing Ukraine with any actual foundational support or protection. It was a shit deal without security guarantees and with enough loopholes to, well, drive an army through. The new deal would have included security guarantees, which are as strong an enforcement of a treaty as anything.