This is entirely possible. Though we don't have full devil-in-the-detail facts of Trump's extorting Ukraine's mineral wealth like the parasite that he is, even though he claims he's doing in the US's national interest, it, to my mind, part and parcel of a beggar-thy-neighbor foreign policy laced with imperialistic ambitions. It is in my view predatory and a mafia-like "protection racket". Unfortunately Taiwan has always found itself in the most unenviable position of being a long-time client state of the US. And now Trump is looking for payback, mostly because US coffers are near zero, mostly because the US is a strong candidate for having a bankrupt government, and of becoming a banana republic -- without the bananas. Unless Taiwan can find accommodation with China, it looks -- to me -- likely that Trump will take over TSMC, as unfortunate as this will be. It also means the idea of a world run by so-called free markets, not as if free market economics have ever reigned the world -- not in the US and certainly not in any Asian country (just cut that old horseshit baloney lie) -- what we're seeing is the return to hardcore mercantilism of old that imputes imperial power relations, not dissimilar to gunboat diplomacy. The idea that Asian like to boast -- stupidly -- that strong economy equals strong country -- another horseshit paradigmatic baloney alongside free-marketism -- is about to deal with the return of a nasty, greedy, disgusting, repugnant, imperialistic America run by a convicted criminal, fraudster and womaniser, Donald J. Trump.
This is entirely possible. Though we don't have full devil-in-the-detail facts of Trump's extorting Ukraine's mineral wealth like the parasite that he is, even though he claims he's doing in the US's national interest, it, to my mind, part and parcel of a beggar-thy-neighbor foreign policy laced with imperialistic ambitions. It is in my view predatory and a mafia-like "protection racket". Unfortunately Taiwan has always found itself in the most unenviable position of being a long-time client state of the US. And now Trump is looking for payback, mostly because US coffers are near zero, mostly because the US is a strong candidate for having a bankrupt government, and of becoming a banana republic -- without the bananas. Unless Taiwan can find accommodation with China, it looks -- to me -- likely that Trump will take over TSMC, as unfortunate as this will be. It also means the idea of a world run by so-called free markets, not as if free market economics have ever reigned the world -- not in the US and certainly not in any Asian country (just cut that old horseshit baloney lie) -- what we're seeing is the return to hardcore mercantilism of old that imputes imperial power relations, not dissimilar to gunboat diplomacy. The idea that Asian like to boast -- stupidly -- that strong economy equals strong country -- another horseshit paradigmatic baloney alongside free-marketism -- is about to deal with the return of a nasty, greedy, disgusting, repugnant, imperialistic America run by a convicted criminal, fraudster and womaniser, Donald J. Trump.