Erghh

Some interesting talking points. But it’s also some very strong spin on those events that’s being presented (to at least a partly Phillipine audience by the looks of it).

Phillipines ties to US were really cemented in WW2, long before China was considered a major threat - when China and the US shared the same enemy in Japan. After Pearl Harbour, the US would not risk war unannounced on its doorstep again, hence it further developed those bases in the Philippines.

Taiwan is not a US proxy for war. Similar to the Philippines, it’s US interest is to retain an element of control or at least supervision of what is going on in the other side of the Pacific. But that means China feels exposed like the US did with Cuba, and like Russia did with NATO expansion.

It’s also now something that the US cannot afford to leave because of the chip manufacturer TSMC. If the US loses that chip manufacturing, their economy absolutely dives. Apple, Intel, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, OpenAI, and many others cannot produce their products without those chips, and the only manufacturer with that capability and capacity of production is in Taiwan.. so they’re US current greatest weakness, is sitting just offshore China.

Neither one wants casualties, but both find the current situation unacceptable. So they’re out there wheeling and dealing, puffing their chests out, trying to influence or manipulate other countries wherever they can.