Remember when Trump said he would sort out Russia-Ukraine in 24 hours?
China is more determined than late empire USA.
So is Iran.
And Russia.
As CB correctly points out the west is chokka with parasitic entitled looters and moochers.
The west is not united or determined but a divided and decadent shadow of ts former self.
Yes it is tragic, but we have to deal with reality. 
It will not be fixed by some delusional MAGA sloganeering TACO despot who is owned by Greater Israel Zionists.

Remember when Mamdani mocked Margaret Thatcher about a socialist needing to clean up capitalism and then hit NYC with the "we face a historic shortfall."

Cje95

If Trump is not abandoning Taiwan why is he desperately reshoring chip production?

You think producing chips in the US is in preparation for not importing them from Taiwan? You don't understand this country at all. It's a war. Chips are a weapon. Of course we're going to build as many chips as humanly possible.

Chinese tradition of 'eating bitter' is unknown to the modern decadent westerner.

You talk about the US getting poorer. There's only two reasons: looters and moochers. Half the country are pro-PRC pro-socialism welfare cheats and fraudsters. Same for "Western" "allies." And of course there's the PRC itself, which is the whole reason we have to fund a military. So our entire tax base is spent on dealing with you people. We tolerate it because we don't want to kill you, but you're so insufferable and it's gotten so expensive that we can't deal with it anymore. We've been eating 苦. Our 苦 

 because you have no idea what real capitalism looks like. And now that the pro-PRC parties have lost 

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What Netanyahu and the Israeli right mean when they invoke ‘Greater Israel’

Solomonsatoshi

> If Trump is not abandoning Taiwan why is he desperately reshoring chip production?

You think producing chips in the US is in preparation for not importing them from Taiwan? You don't understand this country at all. It's a war. Chips are a weapon. Of course we're going to build as many chips as humanly possible.

> Chinese tradition of 'eating bitter' is unknown to the modern decadent westerner.

You talk about the US getting poorer. There's only two reasons: looters and moochers. Half the country are pro-PRC pro-socialism welfare cheats and fraudsters. Same for "Western" "allies." And of course there's the PRC itself, which is the whole reason we have to fund a military. So our entire tax base is spent on dealing with you people. We tolerate it because we don't want to kill you, but you're so insufferable and it's gotten so expensive that we can't deal with it anymore. We've been eating 苦. Our 苦 *looks like luxury to you* because you have no idea what real capitalism looks like. And now that the pro-PRC parties have lost *three elections in a row* we have a mandate to get rid of you.