Trump is the worst-case accident for the democratic world. First, he wanted to sacrifice Ukraine for a deal with Putin; now he is ready to abandon Taiwan for a deal with China. The pattern is the same: imperialist great-power thinking and contempt for the struggle for self-determination.
The consequence is that no country can rely on U.S. support anymore. America is losing its allies and abandoning the West as an alliance of democracies.
American democracy will survive Trump, but the damage he is causing internationally will have long-lasting effects.
For Taiwan, the threat of Chinese aggression is dramatically increasing. The political and economic consequences would be devastating—for the United States as well.
Trump on Taiwan:
When you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful, big country. That’s a very small island.
Think of it; it’s 59 miles away. We’re 9,500 miles away. That’s a little bit of a difficult problem.
If you look at the history, Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.