David E. Sanger
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
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The Chinese just aren't ready to discuss it.
What they are ready to discuss is Taiwan and Taiwan's right to exist.
Well, Xi Jinping would like to do anything he can to show that the United States is
is becoming more open to the thought that China over time would take over Taiwan.
He doesn't expect an invitation for them to do so.
What he's looking for are some small wording changes that might make the Taiwanese more doubtful that the U.S.
would come to their aid.
Well, the simplest one that is described most often is that American officials
usually say that they would not support Taiwan declaring its own independence.
But what the Chinese want to do is move that word to oppose.
Sounds like a small change.
In fact, it's got big diplomatic significance to it because opposes means that we would take a specific view that the only real China is
the People's Republic, and that we would oppose any effort to go challenge that.
Right.
And we just don't know how this is going to turn out.
One of his aides told reporters in a briefing over the weekend that he expected no change in the American position.
But that's only true if the president doesn't freelance.
And of course, we know he is bound to freelance.
Yes.
But what's really interesting is that Taiwan is one of the few topics that when you raise it with President Trump, he refuses to get fully engaged.
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