Donald Trump tweets re China

HAL9000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-38167022

Will he be having tea with the Dali Lama soon?

Is the past tense of tweet 'twat'?

Brize

The guy really needs to hand his Twitter account over to a press officer to avoid starting WW3.

hywelg

HAL9000 said:

Is the past tense of tweet 'twat'?

No, that's the person tweeting. 

RandallFlagg

How to upset the world 140 characters at a time

Bucket

I'm sure this will end perfectly well.

Bucket

Gosh, this is just a MAD world sometimes isn't it. Totally MAD. Donald Trump must be MAD, I tell ya.

MAD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

rolls1392

Push the button Don!!

merlin

Chalky

I don't think appeasement of China should be the first item on foreign policy.

ICBM

Chalky said:

I don't think appeasement of China should be the first item on foreign policy.

There's a big difference between appeasement and not blundering in and kicking over the tables before finding out what was on them.

Trump is like a bull in a china shop .

FX_Munkee

ICBM said:

Chalky said:

I don't think appeasement of China should be the first item on foreign policy.

There's a big difference between appeasement and not blundering in and kicking over the tables before finding out what was on them.

Trump is like a bull in a china shop .

I always liked the turn of phrase:-

"Kicks open the outhouse door and comes staggering out, trousers round his ankles, with both guns blazing".

Somehow this mental image seems appropriate for Mr Trumps diplomacy skills.

Ravenous

FX_Munkee said:
"Kicks open the outhouse door and comes staggering out, trousers round his ankles, with both guns blazing".

Donald, Where's your trooousers!

octatonic

ICBM said:

Chalky said:

I don't think appeasement of China should be the first item on foreign policy.

There's a big difference between appeasement and not blundering in and kicking over the tables before finding out what was on them.

Trump is like a bull in a china shop .

Exactly.

Winny_Pooh

Chalky

BBC tax-wasting twats this morning: "The White House said officials had assured China of their "continued commitment to a one-China policy".

This was announced by Josh Earnest, who will be out of his job next month. How can he or anyone else in the soon-to-be-redundant White House folks give commitment to anything?

The BBC did something similar when Reagan won, trying to make out Carter was still in charge and keep pronouncing Reagan as "Ray-Gun".

China is the way Trump will get Republicans on his side.

ewal

So the US has a one China policy and as far as I know no-one has formally stated any intention to change this. Therefore no matter what the fuckwit tweets, the US is still committed to a one China policy. Obama is still the President, Earnest is still the press secretary, therefore if they think it is in their country's interests to issue this statement, then they are perfectly right to do so. The BBC is also absolutely right to report on it - it wasn't an opinion or analysis piece, just simple news reporting.

Chalky

@ewal said "Therefore no matter what the fuckwit tweets, the US is still committed to a one China policy".  

I see. You know better than Trump what the US is committed to.

goldtop

Several things ought to be clear by now:

1) continuing to think of Trump as a fool/joke/idiot is daft
2) the USA's foreign policy has been broken for a very long time
3) treating China and Putin differently is no accident

earwighoney

It's not like the Chinese actually give a shit about Donald Trumps tweets. 

They can't access Twitter. 

ewal

Chalky said:

@ewal said "Therefore no matter what the fuckwit tweets, the US is still committed to a one China policy".  

I see. You know better than Trump what the US is committed to.

Selective quoting - nice.

Obama is still in charge. Earnest is still the press secretary. No-one has said the policy will change. The statement was justified. The BBC were right to report it.

I've tried to re-word my argument so it is simple enough for you.

Brad

Winny_Pooh said:

Watched this last night. It will be interesting/worrying to see how things play out.