Discussion: China Fires Warning To Trump After His Controversial Call With Taiwan

Keith Olbermann has been using the sobriquet, POS POETUS, I imagine soon to be replaced by POS POTUS.

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In the midst of worrying about what new wars Trump might get us into, it dawned on me that Trumpā€™s foreign assets might now become terrorist targets. I think I would be afraid to stay at a trump hotel. I wonder if he plans on using the military to protect his properties oversees.

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Well, the Chinese Nation has a very long history, they know how to do diplomacy and how to milk this incident for all they canā€¦

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US Treasury yields have risen a ton since the election. Besides showing less faith in the US Treasury Market from buyers in the world this creates thin ice with our stock market. Nobody talks about this.

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Nitpicking here, Lauren - Trumpā€™s not President yet, so your statement that it is the ā€œfirst time in four decades that a US Presidentā€¦ā€ is not technically true.

Important detail, they can say ā€œMr Trump was a private person in that conversationā€ and save the US for some embarrasmentā€¦

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Yes but blatant ignorance is why most Republican voters voted for this moron

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@centralasiaexpat Forgive me for forgetting that the Unionof Soviet Socialist Republics has dissolved - old memories and long habits of thought and all that. Maybe I should revise that to: Chinaā€™s northern borders. Somehow I think that Putin wouldnā€™t be above a little (more) mischief-making if he saw the opportunity. If his lapdog starts to rile up the Chinese from the east, well, why not?

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@clauscph Exactly that. They can also be fairly thin-skinned themselvesā€¦when it suits their agenda.

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China is trying to buy or lease land in Kazakhstan, and it is a very sensitive subject. At the moment, they donā€™t worry (much) about Russia returning. Iā€™d like to keep it that way.

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Indeed. How long before one of his hotels does become a terrorist target? And weā€™re asked to send our children to fight and die to protect ā€¦ whose interests?

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Chinaā€™s response was fast and direct. People forget that the government in Taiwan thinks itā€™s the legitimate ruler of mainland China (and vice versa). China served notice to DT not to touch that tripwire or there will be consequences. Chinese hard liners have been itching for a reason to take over Taiwan. A Chinese hardliner would advocate taking DTā€™s words literally, and that he intends to eventually recognize the Taiwanese government, which would mean that the US is officially delegitimizing the govā€™t in Beijing. If I were a Chinese hardliner, I might use that to try to build a consensus for military action to start seizing Taiwanese assets or the island itself. Such is the danger of having an ignoramus as Prez.

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They are already targets. People simply are putting two and two together.

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You know, I had been so focused on the domestic disaster unfolding that I hadnā€™t even considered the fact that I have two boys- one of whom will be 16 after 4 years, and both boys will be draft age after 8 years. Given the level of media manipulation/propaganda, I am actually terrified. For so many many reasons, we have to get our act together and take our country back!!!

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He tweeted we sell billions in armsā€¦

Uhhhh, is any of that information classified?

And, is he using a ā€œpersonalā€ Twitter account?

ā€œPrepared to be Presidentā€ suddenly has meaningā€¦

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@centralasiaexpat I think we all would. Not so sure about some of the whackaloons around Drumpf. But, hey, maybe he could negotiate a good lease/option-to-buy deal for them - real estateā€™s his thing dontcha know.

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Itā€™s not out of the question that some of his inner circle are end timers who would like to hasten Armageddon.
Conway in particular exudes a gleam of fanaticism unlike anything I have seen in American political life before.

@mantan I dunno. I think the right nickname is already staring us in the face. Code Name: The Apprentice.

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Anyone read what Trumpā€™s Secret Service code name is?
Iā€™m thinking a long one, ā€˜Bonfire of the Vanitiesā€™ā€¦

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Iā€™d love to know what theyā€™re thinking right now. Or if theyā€™re paying attention or even care.

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Itā€™s still unclear if Trumpā€™s callā€“in which Taiwanā€™s president congratulated himā€“was intended to cause the uproar and signal a new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward China or if Trump had been unaware of the precedent he was toppling.

and that is the problemā€¦the fuhrer obviously asked for this callā€¦because he intends sending his kkkidsā€¦over to pocket some coinā€¦
his knowledge of world affairs stops THEREā€¦as he just picks up the phone and blabs the words someone told him to sayā€¦
lolā€¦this guy may bring down the country faster then anyone thoughtā€¦in ways no one thought of

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In Taiwan.

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