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2016-12-06 Home Front: Politix

Michael J. Totten: Trump's Taiwan Call Wasn't a Blunder

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Posted by newc 2016-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 China is a bully. That’s the problem.

And who continues to feed the bully ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-06 06:41|| 2016-12-06 06:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Really. At the end of the day, they will nuke us if we don't trade on their terms? That'll end well...

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-12-06 10:55|| 2016-12-06 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 "I owe you 10 trillion $. Better be nice."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-06 13:44|| 2016-12-06 13:44|| Front Page Top

#4 "Really, Western Civ, we put a lot of effort into finding the NICE hospice for you. If you don't like it we've got one with much more aggressive orderlies we could have sent you to."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-12-06 15:18|| 2016-12-06 15:18|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 Really. At the end of the day, they will nuke us if we don't trade on their terms? That'll end well...

Really? Then I guess we just drop a couple of crowd pleasers behind that big dam of theirs. And radiate a few dozen cities.

Posted by Grarong Spawn of the Heathen Rus2966 2016-12-06 18:43|| 2016-12-06 18:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I think M. Murcek was being sarcastic. Worst China could do is sell off what they owe and try to screw us while they collapse their economy.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-06 23:23|| 2016-12-06 23:23|| Front Page Top

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