U.S. pauses $14bn Taiwan arms sale just days after Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping in China

Or just send him a piece peace prize award, golden if possible.

A welcome group from the plane with lots of young girls waving flags would actually do it, I guess. That's not a joke. I'm tired.

Just pledge to invest 100 trillion dollars to the us.

He’ll be dead before he figures it out

Probably was trump and Melania coin transfers anyway

Don't forget Netanyahu's bitch

Hey!

You can't have a fat orange spit roast with only two people.

Trunk know we can control the petroldollar and protect Taiwan at the same time. He's probably trying to buy time, because saving the states from bankruptcy was a higher priority than saving Taiwan.

Americans eat is life depends on the Petrodollar and taxing the world though money printing to maintain itself. Without it we are bankrupt.

God damn Biden causing a chip shortage in the US.

I think it's more that Xi bullied him into it.

It's likely that he made several points:
Nobody has actually suggested a scenario where the arms package would prevent or even slow down a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
All the US wargames show that the US has no chance of defending Taiwan.
Trump's trade war failed.
His Iran war is failing.
Trump has burned most of his alliances.

He probably phrased all of that in fancy diplomat lingo but all the analysis I've seen says it was more of a veiled threat than a bribe.

Xi probably just gave him a stern look.

Because its not a secret. That's what happened.

Xi wants Taiwan and Trump wants Cuba. Cuba is a close ally of China. China voiced support to Cuba in February https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-backs-cuba-against-external-interference-foreign-minister-visits-beijing-2026-02-05/

right after ukraine has captured more territory, trumps trying to give pootin more breathing room to regroup.

Nobody has a working democracy. Europe is slowly falling into facism not tocmention that leaders lies in compaign to win then ignore people demands.

Can I take credit for the diminished influence of the US and less arms sales too?

Harris cultists this is on you.

And I'll do it again. 😆

So, this is obviously bs. I'm the first one to criticize the orange person in charge, but China would obviously have taken Taiwan if not for the western support. No doubt.

In the little mind of ML users, every country is full of sheeps except china and the evil US. Ukrainians, taiwanese, iran, venezuela... it doesen't matter, they dont have a say, right? It's all USA meddling.

GFYS

The people of Taiwan do not need more guns.

The people of Taiwan, as represented by the government and the Legislative Yuan, do think they need more guns.

Probably because of the swarms of Chinese aircraft which regularly practise attacking them, and the even greater swarms which sit and wait.

I wish there was a diplomatic solution, because any military action in the strait of Taiwan would cause a rapid and severe global crisis.

But the diplomatic action should not be abandoning Taiwan, because that won't avert a crisis. If Taiwan is attacked, it will fight and land strikes on China too, resulting in exactly the kind of crisis everyone should avoid.