On 5/14/26 4:16 AM, *skriptis wrote:

Pelle Svansl”s <pelle@svans.los> Wrote in message:r

Xi warns Trump China and US could 'come into conflict' if Taiwan issue mishandled.Xi Jinping has told Donald Trump their countries could come into conflict if the issue over self-ruled Taiwan claimed by Beijing is mishandled, Chinese state media said.?The Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations,? Xi said at their summit, according to state broadcaster CCTV.If mishandled, the two nations could collide or even come into conflict, pushing the entire China-US relationship into a highly perilous situation.?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/may/14/donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-live-updates-talks-meeting-summit-visit-beijing-latest-newsI wonder what Xi is trying to say?-- "And off they went, from here to there,The bear, the bear, and the maiden fair"-- Traditional

I'd say he want to say the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations.

Taiwan is to the US a lot like what Castro's Cuba was to the USSR.

Just as Israel is the US's North Korea.

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On 5/14/2026 8:42 AM, Sawfish wrote:

On 5/14/26 4:16 AM, *skriptis wrote:

Pelle Svansl”s <pelle@svans.los> Wrote in message:r

Xi warns Trump China and US could 'come into conflict' if Taiwan
issue mishandled.Xi Jinping has told Donald Trump their countries
could come into conflict if the issue over self-ruled Taiwan claimed
by Beijing is mishandled, Chinese state media said.?The Taiwan
question is the most important issue in China-US relations,? Xi said
at their summit, according to state broadcaster CCTV.If mishandled,
the two nations could collide or even come into conflict, pushing the
entire China-US relationship into a highly perilous
situation.?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/may/14/
donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-live-updates-talks-meeting-summit-
visit-beijing-latest-newsI wonder what Xi is trying to say?-- "And
off they went, from here to there,The bear, the bear, and the maiden
fair"-- Traditional

I'd say he want to say the Taiwan question is the most important issue
in China-US relations.

Taiwan is to the US a lot like what Castro's Cuba was to the USSR.

Just as Israel is the US's North Korea.

I would venture that Cuba, besides Bay of Pigs and the Missiles, was far
less of a North Korea than Israel has been.
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On 5/14/26 4:05 PM, Scall5 wrote:

On 5/14/2026 8:42 AM, Sawfish wrote:

On 5/14/26 4:16 AM, *skriptis wrote:

Pelle Svansl”s <pelle@svans.los> Wrote in message:r

Xi warns Trump China and US could 'come into conflict' if Taiwan
issue mishandled.Xi Jinping has told Donald Trump their countries
could come into conflict if the issue over self-ruled Taiwan claimed
by Beijing is mishandled, Chinese state media said.?The Taiwan
question is the most important issue in China-US relations,? Xi said
at their summit, according to state broadcaster CCTV.If mishandled,
the two nations could collide or even come into conflict, pushing
the entire China-US relationship into a highly perilous
situation.?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/may/14/
donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-live-updates-talks-meeting-summit-
visit-beijing-latest-newsI wonder what Xi is trying to say?-- "And
off they went, from here to there,The bear, the bear, and the maiden
fair"-- Traditional

I'd say he want to say the Taiwan question is the most important
issue in China-US relations.

Taiwan is to the US a lot like what Castro's Cuba was to the USSR.

Just as Israel is the US's North Korea.

I would venture that Cuba, besides Bay of Pigs and the Missiles, was far less of a North Korea than Israel has been.

We may be mismatching.

I see N Korea, a Chinese client state, as serving China's interests as
being a powerful force for disruption, but if you be nice to China,
China can help to rein them in.

Israel projects power quite promiscuously into the middle east, and
often it is similar to the US interests, and they certainly are
nominally a US client state. So we can use our position to seemingly
control them, much like China can with North Korea. But Israel has far
more power in the US than N. Korea does in China.

Cuba and Taiwan are a bit different. They are a potential forward base
very close to the borders of a large powerful nation, but are
ideologically and economically aligned with that powerful nations major competitor.

Both the US and China, and the US and the former USSR, have made a big
deal out of these "forward bases" and used them when bargaining with
each other. NATO is a giant Cuba, so far as Russia and the USSR are
concerned. As if Canada and Mexico were members of the Warsaw Pact.

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