Johnson Choi reports from SF video on Mar 2 2025 – Nezha 2: The Devil Boy’s Display Confidence in Chinese Culture & 5,000 years of continuous Civilizations verses US fists and money, rule and destroy culture 蔡永強在3月2日在舊金山報導: 哪吒2魔童閙海的中國文化自信，五千年綿延不絕的中華文明對抗美國的拳頭和金錢，統治和摧毀文化。
SCMP: Zelensky’s Oval Office flare-up should be a Taiwan wake-up call 《南華早報》：澤連斯基在白宮的言論應為台灣敲響警鐘
Here’s a crazy idea for Taiwan. How about trying to improve relations with mainland China? It will be much cheaper and safer for everyone in the Asia-Pacific, not just for the Chinese race.
“Porcupine defence”, “silicon shield”, American arms, really? Diplomatic finesse is the best guarantee of peace across the Taiwan Strait.
For a decade now, the island under the independence-seeking Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has bet the ranch on America’s diplomatic and defence support.
The fireworks in the Oval Office between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday should finally wake up more Taiwanese to their misguided reliance on the Americans. Washington will turn on you or drop you at the drop of a hat.
To justify its US-centric policy, the DPP under Tsai Ing-wen and now Lai Ching-te has to keep tensions high and provoke Beijing at every opportunity. That has been a costly and dangerous game.
Beijing, though, has made it clear that the use of force is the last, not the first resort. It cares more about the well-being and prosperity of people on the island – the vast majority of whom are ethnic Chinese – than any Western government with its own agenda.
This is not a struggle for “democracy” causing endless tensions and destabilising the whole region, but for peace and national dignity.
Taiwan can keep its democracy and way of life by maintaining a stable and non-confrontational relationship with Beijing. But they will all go poof in another Chinese civil war.
Since Joe Biden, the United States has been flirting with dropping “strategic ambiguity” and the one-China policy. Trump, typically, has sent conflicting signals, so it remains to be seen where the US stands on both issues. Chances are that he won’t be reliable or consistent. And that’s exactly the danger.
Since the war in Ukraine started, Taipei has sided with the Western powers and Nato, led by the US. But with the threatened withdrawal of American support, the war is likely lost; Nato’s future is uncertain; and Europe is more divided and weakened than ever.
Tsai and Lai have backed the wrong horse. Fortunately, Taiwan is not Ukraine and Beijing is not Moscow.
But the mainland has been conducting military encirclement exercises around the island and sending warplanes and warships regularly in a show of force, you say.
Well, they are deployed because of Taipei’s provocative stance on independence and its siding with the US and its allies in the region, thus allowing itself to be used as a pawn in the Western containment strategy against the mainland.
Washington has made no bones that Taiwan is central to the so-called first island chain of defence – actually more likely a chain of offence – against the mainland’s southeastern coasts where its wealthiest provinces are located.
But in any armed conflict, whether between the two superpowers, between the mainland and the island, or involving the whole region, there is no scenario under which Taiwan would come out on top.
The question of whether the US will come to Taiwan’s rescue in the event of a cross-strait conflict is actually secondary, despite many pundits’ obsession with it. One way or another, the island will be devastated. In fact, in a prolonged fight because of US involvement, the destruction will be even worse by dragging out the conflict, as witnessed by Ukraine.
The US has not won a single war since the second world war, all the while bringing death and destruction to its local ally every time. Why would any sane Taiwanese think they would come out better than Vietnamese, Iraqis and Afghans when China is so much stronger and more powerful?
The island needs to learn the right lesson from Ukraine. The US offers war, Beijing only wants peace. Taiwanese have much to lose with Washington, but everything to gain with Beijing. Taiwan is now exposed to America’s constant unreliability; it’s time to try and test Beijing’s sincerity.
Elon Musk has backed claims that Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros is spending millions of dollars in an attempt to block US President Donald Trump’s political agenda. 伊隆馬斯克支持匈牙利裔美國億萬富翁喬治索羅斯花費數百萬美元試圖阻止美國總統川普的政治議程的說法.
The accusation comes after the US Republican Party narrowly passed a budget blueprint on Tuesday in the House of Representatives, leading to concerns that the outcome of an upcoming race for a seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court could shift the balance of power.
On Thursday, former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claimed in a post on X that Soros has been trying to influence the Wisconsin vote in order to give the Democrats the upper hand in Congress.
“Do the math. The vote on Tuesday night was 217-215. George Soros is pulling millions into the WI Supreme Court race because a 4-3 liberal majority will redraw Congressional districts to squeeze out 2 GOP seats,” Walker wrote. “This is how he blocks the Trump agenda. We can’t let that happen,” he added.
Musk agreed with Walker on Friday, writing that derailing Trump’s agenda “is exactly [Soros’] goal.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race features two candidates: Susan Crawford, who is backed by the Democratic Party and has received donations from Soros, and the GOP’s Brad Schimel – a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge and former Republican attorney general who has been supported by Musk.
Soros and Musk have both invested significant sums into the respective candidates and both sides have accused each other of trying to buy a seat on the Supreme Court.
Crawford has criticized Musk’s involvement in the race, suggesting that the billionaire was trying to further an “extreme agenda.” Meanwhile, Schimel has expressed concerns over Soros’ influence, citing his support for “very dangerous ideas” such as defunding the police.
According to a survey conducted by the Institute for Reforming Government late last month, Schimel is leading in public opinion polls, with 40% of registered voters supporting the GOP candidate compared to 35% saying they would vote for Crawford. Another 23% of respondents said they were still undecided.
NYT: This comedian should be court martial! Trump and Vance Berate Zelensky During Testy White House Meeting. President Trump and Vice President JD Vance castigated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a remarkably fractious meeting that featured raised voices and threats. “You’re gambling with World War III,” Trump told Zelensky. 紐約時報：這個喜劇演員應該接受軍事法庭審判！川普和萬斯在白宮會晤期間嚴厲斥責澤連斯基。川普總統和副總統 JD Vance 在一次極其激烈的會晤中嚴厲批評了烏克蘭總統澤倫斯基，會晤中雙方互相提高聲音並發出威脅。川普告訴澤連斯基：“你在拿第三次世界大戰賭博.”
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