Trump Throws Taiwan Under the Bus

[ChloeTzang]

Trump’s China summit may have looked calm on the surface — but underneath, something far more serious may have happened. Xi Jinping made Taiwan the center of the conversation, Trump refused to clearly commit to defending Taiwan if China invaded, and critics across the political spectrum are now asking whether Beijing just got a dangerous signal from Washington.

During Trump’s China trip, Xi Jinping reportedly made Taiwan a central issue while framing the United States as a declining power through references to the “Thucydides Trap.” Trump responded with praise for Xi, avoided directly committing to Taiwan’s defense, and focused heavily on trade, optics, and symbolic diplomacy. In this video, we break down what was actually said, why Taiwan matters so much to Beijing, why Trump’s wording alarmed analysts, and whether China may now believe the United States is becoming less willing to intervene militarily over Taiwan.

Chapters:
00:00 Did Trump Signal Something On Taiwan?
00:14 Xi’s Message: Stay Out Of Taiwan
00:46 Trump Responds To Xi’s “Thucydides Trap”
01:40 Is Trump Reframing China’s Warning?
02:15 Why Trump Focused On Praise And Optics
03:22 Was The Summit “Boring” Or Strategic?
03:47 China, AI Chips, And Taiwan’s Importance
04:16 Russia’s Massive Strike Changes Trump’s Tone
04:57 “Trump Clearly Sold Out Taiwan” Debate
05:17 Trump Refuses To Commit To Taiwan Defense
05:44 Biden’s Very Different Taiwan Answer
06:23 Rubio’s Comments About “Voluntary” Unification
06:44 What Taiwanese Citizens Actually Want
06:59 Why Trump Keeps Praising Xi
07:19 Fiona Hill’s Theory About Trump And Strongmen
08:20 Did China Deliberately Make Xi Look Bigger?
09:04 The “Throw Ukraine Under The Bus” Comparison
09:37 Would Companies Abandon China Over Taiwan?
10:16 Taiwan Faces Russian And Chinese Influence Ops
10:34 Russia Keeps Attacking U.S. Firms In Ukraine
10:52 Why Fiona Hill’s Analysis Matters
11:15 Trump’s “Do You Bring Other Presidents Here?” Moment
12:00 Final Thoughts

 

[Hel_Books]

In Beijing, Xi served Trump a big heaping plate of Orange Chicken!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Trump Fantasy Slams Into China Summit Reality

In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 15th 2026: President Trump is forced to explain to MAGA why what they heard with their own ears from Xi Jinping wasn't what they heard at all - even as the evidence is mounting that his summit was not a success. Britain's Keir Starmer is fighting for his political future, as the UK's political system disintegrates. And the US makes a sudden announcement that it is cancelling the sending of troops to Poland, almost as they were about to get on the plane. And yet Poland is supposed to be one of their favourites - so what's going on?

 

[ChloeTzang]

How to End US Hegemony in one Summit​

In his speech about the importance of avoiding the Thucydides trap, President Xi may have been speaking at a level above Trump's ability to understand.

00:00:00 Trump’s China Visit and Beijing’s Frustration
00:02:40 The U.S. Business Delegation: Apple, Tesla, Tech, and Finance
00:05:23 Iran, Hormuz, and What the U.S. Claimed Was Discussed
00:09:41 No Drama, No Fallout: Did the Summit Actually Go Smoothly?
00:11:09 Xi, Trump, and the Thucydides Trap
00:14:56 Nvidia, Chips, and the Limits of U.S. Tech Power
00:19:04 The End of American Primacy?
00:21:33 China’s Invitation to a Multipolar World
00:33:12 How Japan, Australia, and the Region Will Read the Meeting
00:36:26 U.S. Military Bases and the Crumbling Architecture of Primacy
00:45:28 Taiwan, “Losing China,” and America’s Unfinished Cold War
00:53:52 Warwick Powell’s New Book and Closing Thoughts

 

[ChloeTzang]

Xi Insulted Trump To His Face And In Front Of Cameras During Pivotal Meeting In China

On "Forbes Newsroom," author of "Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America" and U.S.-China relations expert Gordon Chang shared his response to President Trump's visit to China to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Beijing ‘Played Trump Like A Fiddle’

 

[ChloeTzang]

Putin and Xi See Trump As An ‘Easy Mark’​

"He doesn't understand what he's being given and he doesn't understand what he's giving up."

Donald Trump believes that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping see him as a friend on the diplomatic stage, but the US president's former national security adviser John Bolton doesn't think that's the case.

 

[ChloeTzang]

The Xi–Trump Summit Was Stranger Than It Looked

 

[ChloeTzang]

Oh Donny Donny Donny, you are a total fuckwit

 

[Rightguide]

Trump’s China summit may have looked calm on the surface — but underneath, something far more serious may have happened. Xi Jinping made Taiwan the center of the conversation, Trump refused to clearly commit to defending Taiwan if China invaded, and critics across the political spectrum are now asking whether Beijing just got a dangerous signal from Washington.

During Trump’s China trip, Xi Jinping reportedly made Taiwan a central issue while framing the United States as a declining power through references to the “Thucydides Trap.” Trump responded with praise for Xi, avoided directly committing to Taiwan’s defense, and focused heavily on trade, optics, and symbolic diplomacy. In this video, we break down what was actually said, why Taiwan matters so much to Beijing, why Trump’s wording alarmed analysts, and whether China may now believe the United States is becoming less willing to intervene militarily over Taiwan.

Chapters:
00:00 Did Trump Signal Something On Taiwan?
00:14 Xi’s Message: Stay Out Of Taiwan
00:46 Trump Responds To Xi’s “Thucydides Trap”
01:40 Is Trump Reframing China’s Warning?
02:15 Why Trump Focused On Praise And Optics
03:22 Was The Summit “Boring” Or Strategic?
03:47 China, AI Chips, And Taiwan’s Importance
04:16 Russia’s Massive Strike Changes Trump’s Tone
04:57 “Trump Clearly Sold Out Taiwan” Debate
05:17 Trump Refuses To Commit To Taiwan Defense
05:44 Biden’s Very Different Taiwan Answer
06:23 Rubio’s Comments About “Voluntary” Unification
06:44 What Taiwanese Citizens Actually Want
06:59 Why Trump Keeps Praising Xi
07:19 Fiona Hill’s Theory About Trump And Strongmen
08:20 Did China Deliberately Make Xi Look Bigger?
09:04 The “Throw Ukraine Under The Bus” Comparison
09:37 Would Companies Abandon China Over Taiwan?
10:16 Taiwan Faces Russian And Chinese Influence Ops
10:34 Russia Keeps Attacking U.S. Firms In Ukraine
10:52 Why Fiona Hill’s Analysis Matters
11:15 Trump’s “Do You Bring Other Presidents Here?” Moment
12:00 Final Thoughts

We will protect Taiwan when the chips are down.

 

[Rightguide]

When it comes to the “Thucydides Trap.” People need to read the real history of the Peloponnesian War from sources other than the pro-Communists BS one gets these days out of Harvard and other such places. The “Thucydides Trap” is a popular shorthand for the idea that a rising power and an established power are "destined" to go to war. It comes from a single line in Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War describing how Sparta’s fear of rising Athens made war more likely, but modern usage often stretches that into a deterministic law of history.

The problem is that this metaphor gets overused in ways that don’t fit either the ancient case or the modern situation of the United States. First, Thucydides did not present war as inevitable; he described a complex mix of fear, miscalculation, alliance politics, and contingent decisions. The Peloponnesian War itself was not caused by “rising power alone,” but by a chain of specific events.

 

[Hel_Books]

When it comes to the “Thucydides Trap.” People need to read the real history of the Peloponnesian War from sources other than the pro-Communists BS one gets these days out of Harvard and other such places. The “Thucydides Trap” is a popular shorthand for the idea that a rising power and an established power are "destined" to go to war. It comes from a single line in Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War describing how Sparta’s fear of rising Athens made war more likely, but modern usage often stretches that into a deterministic law of history.

The problem is that this metaphor gets overused in ways that don’t fit either the ancient case or the modern situation of the United States. First, Thucydides did not present war as inevitable; he described a complex mix of fear, miscalculation, alliance politics, and contingent decisions. The Peloponnesian War itself was not caused by “rising power alone,” but by a chain of specific events.

It's a two-word shorthand for the way the Chinese are thinking now: the USA is in decline, accelerated by the stupendous incompetence and corruption of the MAGA faction and it's increasingly erratic leader.

Until Trump was elected this was but a Chinese pipe dream: their population is decreasing, the manufacturing jobs that built their end-of-the-twentieth-century growth are moving to lower-cost countries like Bangladesh, Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines, and the corruption and inefficiency of the Xi autocracy are stifling the economy and civil society.

Now, Xi looks like a statesman compared to the addled man he served Orange Chicken to after that "exclusive" trip to a secluded garden.

 

[Chernosoth]

China wants Taiwan slowly pulled in with economic gravity. That won't work because China doesn't have the birthrate to be that much of a long term heavyweight. Taiwan is equally screwed with an aging population. The future of Asia is in the smaller nations that still have kids because they never became hyperindustrialized and urbanized.

 

[Lazaran]

Trump’s China summit may have looked calm on the surface — but underneath, something far more serious may have happened. Xi Jinping made Taiwan the center of the conversation, Trump refused to clearly commit to defending Taiwan if China invaded, and critics across the political spectrum are now asking whether Beijing just got a dangerous signal from Washington.

During Trump’s China trip, Xi Jinping reportedly made Taiwan a central issue while framing the United States as a declining power through references to the “Thucydides Trap.” Trump responded with praise for Xi, avoided directly committing to Taiwan’s defense, and focused heavily on trade, optics, and symbolic diplomacy. In this video, we break down what was actually said, why Taiwan matters so much to Beijing, why Trump’s wording alarmed analysts, and whether China may now believe the United States is becoming less willing to intervene militarily over Taiwan.

Chapters:
00:00 Did Trump Signal Something On Taiwan?
00:14 Xi’s Message: Stay Out Of Taiwan
00:46 Trump Responds To Xi’s “Thucydides Trap”
01:40 Is Trump Reframing China’s Warning?
02:15 Why Trump Focused On Praise And Optics
03:22 Was The Summit “Boring” Or Strategic?
03:47 China, AI Chips, And Taiwan’s Importance
04:16 Russia’s Massive Strike Changes Trump’s Tone
04:57 “Trump Clearly Sold Out Taiwan” Debate
05:17 Trump Refuses To Commit To Taiwan Defense
05:44 Biden’s Very Different Taiwan Answer
06:23 Rubio’s Comments About “Voluntary” Unification
06:44 What Taiwanese Citizens Actually Want
06:59 Why Trump Keeps Praising Xi
07:19 Fiona Hill’s Theory About Trump And Strongmen
08:20 Did China Deliberately Make Xi Look Bigger?
09:04 The “Throw Ukraine Under The Bus” Comparison
09:37 Would Companies Abandon China Over Taiwan?
10:16 Taiwan Faces Russian And Chinese Influence Ops
10:34 Russia Keeps Attacking U.S. Firms In Ukraine
10:52 Why Fiona Hill’s Analysis Matters
11:15 Trump’s “Do You Bring Other Presidents Here?” Moment
12:00 Final Thoughts

Yes, DonOld is a coward … and a traitor… and an imbecile… but we already knew that…





We. Told. Them. So.

 

[HisArpy]

I just adore how some toad of a podcaster can come up with a totally unsubstantiated theory based on nothing including hot air, and people will repeat it as if it's true.

 

[ChloeTzang]

This Is Why Trump May Be Ready to Abandon Taiwan

For the first time, Trump openly framed Taiwan not primarily as a democratic partner or strategic ally, but as leverage — a “negotiating chip” in a broader deal with Xi Jinping. And when you combine that with his comments about geography, microchips, and the limits of American power, a much bigger picture begins to emerge.

In this video, we break down what Trump actually said, why critics are alarmed, how Beijing may interpret the summit, and why many analysts believe U.S. policy toward Taiwan may be entering a dangerous new phase.

The American Century is over......

 

[HisArpy]

This Is Why Trump May Be Ready to Abandon Taiwan

WAIT!!!!

I thought Trump had ALREADY thrown Taiwan under the bus. Did I miss the resurrection so he could do it again in new and exciting ways?

 

[Lazaran]

WAIT!!!!

I thought Trump had ALREADY thrown Taiwan under the bus. Did I miss the resurrection so he could do it again in new and exciting ways?

Dumb Derpy is dumb:

That analysis / assessment from the professor is SUPPORTIVE of the premise that Trump threw Taiwan under the bus, NOT CONTRADICTORY.



Dumb Derpy



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[HisArpy]

Dumb Derpy is dumb:

That analysis / assessment from the professor is SUPPORTIVE of the premise that Trump threw Taiwan under the bus, NOT CONTRADICTORY.



Dumb Derpy



We. Told. Them. So.

Lol. Apparently, in luzer world, HAS is synonymous with MAY BE READY TO.

Never mind that this is a literary website where people actually understand tenses...

 

[RobDownSouth]

We will protect Taiwan when the chips are down.

i saw what you did there.
Congratulations, you made me laugh.
(to be sure, I always laugh at your posts, but this is the rare occasion when I'm laughing WITH you, not AT you).
Well played, in any event.

 

[Lazaran]

Lol. Apparently, in luzer world, HAS is synonymous with MAY BE READY TO.

Never mind that this is a literary website where people actually understand tenses...

Dumb Derpy "thinks" that a SUPPORTIVE analysis / assessment CONTRADICTS a premise.



Dumb Derpy



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

US policy on Taiwan remains “strategic ambiguity.” Nothing changed last week.

 

[HisArpy]

US policy on Taiwan remains “strategic ambiguity.” Nothing changed last week.

Of course nothing changed. Which is irrelevant to the luzers who create fake news out of whole cloth.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I would have gone with under the rickshaw.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Of course nothing changed. Which is irrelevant to the luzers who create fake news out of whole cloth.

Chloe is coming across as a CCP operative with greater clarity.