The Middle East concerns me, I’ve family in Lebanon. What draws you to the issues in Hong Kong and Taiwan?
Supporting sounds a little strange to me, it sounds too much like war being like sports. However, I appreciate that for some it is.
Curious to know more of your reasoning.
The Middle East is a very problematic region to be involved in.
Whenever we try to "stabilize" the region, it ends up creating more problems, and making the region worse, let the Middle East resolves its own issues, they used to be fairly classically liberal at one point.
My stance on Hong Kong, and Taiwan is that these regions are a representative of a generally free, open, and prosperous society that have grown because they didn't have the same Governmental entity as mainland China.
Even if you argue that North Korea, and South Korea are one Korea, same in the case of Taiwan, and Hong Kong, while they "technically" are part of China, I feel like the world benefits when we hold The CCP at bay because of its massive, and prevelant spying infrastructure, and censorship with things like The Great Firewall.
While this is also true of The United States, I believe that Western Hegemony is better because The United States has armed citizenry.
Taiwan, I support in the short run because letting Microchip development fall into the hands of China would be catastrophic to global freedom but it may not be viable for The United States to defend forever, I support domestic production, and fiscal responsibility but its hard to say either way.
Overall, I see supporting those two as critical for The U.S. maintaince in the global power dynamic.
Thanks! I fully agree about interventions in the Middle East. Western meddling goes back well over a century and has done nothing but destabilise the required and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Taiwan and Hong Kong are curious. Hong Kong was essentially given to the English as they loved tea and opium. I wonder how the USA would react if China had Key West or maybe even Staten Island? Geographically that’s roughly equal.
The USA would likely benefit from having its own manufacturing base but that would effect dollar hegemony... it’s a hot mess for sure.
With regards to surveillance, the US gov passes the this onto private business in order to buy mostly Chinese made goods. It’s a strange set up for sure.
I’d rather all states reduced their surveillance of citizens but this seems only likely to increase.
Cheers.
