NARRATIVE – The American president is said to have threatened Xi Jinping with military reprisals in the event of an invasion of the island. Beijing wants to surf Trumpian uncertainty to better isolate Taïpei.
Small Taiwan in silence, without provoking the awakening of Donald Trump. China adjusts its strategy of “Reunification” of the rebellious democratic island, at the time of the second term of the champion of “America first”. While she is negotiating a fragile commercial truce with the White House, the second world power opportunely puts into a declared ambition to annex the territory by 23 million inhabitants to the continent, in order to better isolate it in the face of an American president blowing hot and cold on Taimpei.
Trump boasted of having threatened “Bombing” Beijing if President Xi Jinping was trying to invade the island during a meeting with donors during the electoral campaign, according to an audio recording just broadcast by CNN. “I was with Xi Jinping and I told them if he went to Taiwan, I will cover Beijing from P … of bombs. I will have no choice. He told me that he only believed me 10 %. But, assures the candidate, that is enough “
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