{"id":6531,"date":"2025-02-27T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2025-02-27T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:01:26","slug":"china-says-us-has-gravely-backpedaled-on-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2025\/02\/27\/china-says-us-has-gravely-backpedaled-on-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"China says US has \u2018gravely backpedaled\u2019 on Taiwan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Article: China says US has \u2018gravely backpedaled\u2019 on Taiwan<\/a>\u00a0
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This article is centred on China\u2019s response to the US backtracking on their lack of support for Taiwan. As the article cites, China\u2019s foreign ministry took issue with a US government fact-sheet that removed the line that once stated that the United States does not support Taiwan\u2019s independence. Although a seemingly sneaky move, it marks a shift in US – China relations amidst many other things straining their bilateral relationship, such as the ongoing Trade War. The US, although never officially supporting Taiwan as an independent state, has aided Taiwan nonetheless with arms. The lack of support for Taiwan was a political device to seal trade relations with China, and given that they\u2019re already in turmoil amidst the 10% tax issued by Trump following CHina\u2019s counter-tariffs, it makes sense why the US is in a position to backtrack on that agreement. Taiwan\u2019s government has already addressed this move by the US, and showed positive reactions to the global hegemon\u2019s support. In fact, the article mentions that the US State Department did this exact thing in 2022 under Biden, but this removal of that line was short lived as protests from China provoked Washington to add it back to the sheet. Trump as a leader is less likely to go back on this action, as is seen with his more hawkish foreign policy that is set on transactional benefits as opposed to Biden\u2019s that can be argued as more wasteful of American resources. If we look at this from the perspective of the US-CHina tech race, Taiwan was once a great asset that provided semiconductor chips. Taiwan, in And with China\u2019s AI advancements with Deep Seek setting the American chat-GPT to shame, it is plausible the US is trying to vamp up trade-relations with Taiwan in order to grasp those chips again to advance the American technological scene. Overall, the trade-war that dates back to Trump\u2019s initial tariffs in 2018, can be broken down as seeing one country apply economic hard power to coerce the other, with the other country (China) countering that econ. hard power with their own as retaliation. That is essentially what defines the trading relations between the two as a \u201cTrade War.\u201d If Trump is to lean in on stronger relations with Taiwan for trade-purposes, it does go against Trump\u2019s pledged \u201camerica first\u201d vision, further showing that his slogan was much more of a campaigning device as opposed to a realistic foreign policy approach.\u00a0
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Article: China says US has \u2018gravely backpedaled\u2019 on Taiwan\u00a0 This article is centred on China\u2019s response to the US backtracking on their lack of support for Taiwan. As the article cites, China\u2019s foreign ministry took issue with a US government fact-sheet that removed the line that once stated that the United States does not support Taiwan\u2019s independence. Although a seemingly… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}