Is the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting a preview of what the US is going to do to Taiwan?

Every year, taiwan office-holders make a beeline for America, hoping to drum up publicity for their cause.

First, all bilateral visits are officially private, non-state visits. But that is as farcical as insisting Nancy's Taipei visit in 2022 was a private trip, when she was on board a US government jet and escorted by USN assets on a circuitous route to the island.

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People have short memories.

And the Taiwanese press is gleefully complicit, churning out headlines of xxx meeting congressman A or Cabinet secretary B. The most brazen headlines are reserved for the Taiwanese president in the white house or Capitol, or photo-ops with the secretary of state or president/vice president.

But if you listen to the right Taiwanese media, they will inject and explain details that change the fundamental understanding of the information chain.

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Second, Taiwanese office-holders do not fly direct to America. Instead they make official diplomatic visits to central America (Belize/Guatemala) or the carribbean (Haiti), before making a “stopover” stateside in their private capacity. This odd travel itinerary almost never draws the Anglophone media's attention.

So why the odd state of affairs? The US DOESN'T RECOGNIZE TAIWAN as a state. Not since throwing Chiang Kai-Shek's KMT government under the bus, when it still represented China on the UNSC P5 seat in the 1970s!

Donald has similarly thrown Volodymyr under the bus, a complete turn of fortunes from the time he was honored at the table by Joe and friends. Remember the standing ovation at Congress cheering him on with “war war war”?

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Taiwan already experienced the Volodymyr moment 5 decades ago. Richard and Henry did not keep chiang in the loop about rapprochement, and chiang found out through the news, after the UNGA resolution was tabled.