Originally posted by Parmaniac
👆But (without intending to start a conspiracy theory or something) I've read an article on another site that this is maybe an economical trick cause the US "threatened" china with punitive tariff dutys for chinas exports. So that china in a way uses taiwan as a second way to get their "Made in china" stuff into america under the "made in taiwan" stuff. Hope everybody understands what I want to say.
sure, all nations have back room plans that and goals for everything that they do. China is clearly, in all of its new openness and economic ties, trying to displace US power in the world and become dominant, but moreso in terms of soft and economic power.
The fact is, they are now negotiating with Taiwan, where as recently as 2007 there was talk of declaraing independance and provoking war with china (afaik the declaration and referendum failed, in 2008 a pro-china party was elected in Taiwanese elections [thanks wiki]). Nations who have strong economic entanglement are much less likely to go to war, and basically have to learn to cooperate with eachother, because the major power brokers of their society (the economic leaders) will now have interests in both nations and the destabalization of the economies would be disasterous for both.
This is certainly not the case with Taiwan and China yet. Whatever economic ties these negotiations and deals produce wont give Teipai too much leverage in Beijing, but it does mark a change and descalation of potential conflict areas.
You could argue it is escalating conflict with America, but that whole issue is largely sabre rattling on both sides. Without their current relationship America has nothing to buy and China only cheap plastic American crap to eat.