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You have everything backwards. The USA is the tribute state to the Republic of China. Whatever we do with our military is entirely up to them.
Trump using ‘excuses’ not to ask Congress for war powers authority in Iran
Donald Trump is using “excuses” to avoid asking Congress to approve his war on Iran, which, under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, he should now do, said Douglas Silliman, a former US ambassador to Kuwait and Iraq.
“To my reading of the law, from 60 days when a conflict involving US forces starts, a president must go to the Congress to continue,” Silliman told Al Jazeera.
“The problem is it’s never really been fully implemented and … the administration is redefining the timeline of the war to say that they don’t have to do this,” Silliman said.
“I think they will continue to find excuses … not to approach Congress until they absolutely have to,” he said.
Silliman said he believes Trump wants to undermine Congress’s legal authority to weigh in at all on the war.
“I think it is more a matter [that] the president doesn’t want to be seen as asking for permission for doing something that he believes he can do on his own authority,” he said.
“He thinks that as commander-in-chief, this entire law and the concept that he must go to the Congress is unconstitutional. I think members of Congress, even on the Republican side, would disagree. But, again, this comes down to whether or not the president thinks that this is a win for him or if this is something that he might not completely win.”
Might as well ask Trump to change the name of his party to Ideocracy Cronyism USA.
Not my place to tell people to change the names of their organisations...I am simply a neutral but interested observer from New Zealand.
Taiwan is militarily and monetarily subservient tribute state to the USA.
Just like S.Korea, Japan, Canada, Australasia, the UK, EU and many more.
Enjoy your global hegemony while it lasts.
Empires come and go.