US should ditch Taiwan: New York Times op-ed

http://www.nma.tv/us-ditch-taiwan-new-york-times/
Commie pandas must have slipped something into the water cooler at the New York Times yesterday, because the paper ran a shockingly ignorant and naïve op-ed suggesting that the US sell out Taiwan to China if Beijing would write off the US$1.14 trillion in American debt it currently holds.

In To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan, former Marine and Harvard fellow Paul V. Kane states that America's relationship with Taiwan is a Cold War anachronism that offers little strategic benefit to the US, observing that "absorption into mainland China is inevitable." Kane notes that such a deal would benefit China economically, as it would no longer have to spend the US$30 billion to US$50 billion a year that it currently uses for things like the 1,500 missiles China has pointed at Taiwan.

Kane wants President Barack Obama to make a backroom deal with the Communists in Beijing in which the US would agree to end "American military assistance and arms sales to Taiwan and terminate the current United States-Taiwan defense arrangement by 2015."

We're Next Media Animation, not Foreign Affairs. So here it is in a nutshell: China would not stop with Taiwan. Gobbling up Taiwan is only one step in the People's Liberation Army Navy's plans (paywall) to develop a blue water navy that would project power out to Hawaii. If the US abandoned Taiwan, American allies in the region would wonder if they were next and reevaluate their own relationships with the US; if China controlled Taiwan, it would have a stranglehold on Japan and South Korea, which rely on maritime trade for survival.

Kane repeats a common misconception that since Taiwan "is gradually integrating with China economically" its "absorption into mainland China is inevitable." Taiwan is becoming deeply integrated economically with China and it shares a common culture and national language with China. So what? Canada speaks English and is tied economically to the US up the yin-yang. Is Canada's absorption into America also inevitable?

Selling out Taiwan to shed 10% of the national debt would not change the political and economic dysfunction that got the US into trouble in the first place. It would only strengthen China's hand.

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[votumseparatum1]

Who said the U.S. wouldn't throw its allies to the wolves? Taiwan is not Israel. For Israel, the U.S. will destroy itself. 

[lordinvishil]

This video is way better if you read the description first. You guys make some awesome points

[grandtheftvideo]

Why should China pay for something that rightfully belong to them in the first place?

[joseenelsur]

It is better for Taiwan to develop Tesla Technology to protect themselves before Chinese army try to force them to "reunite"

[595o]

@darklighter1 You know who started the relations with red China?

[darklighter1]

@595o Pardon?

[595o]

@darklighter1 True, unlike what that leftist Nixon started, am I right? :->

[anuthutantrum]

Somebody should throw Lims shoe at the chinese government!!

[yurianne07]

a measly $1trillion?? us total debt is $15 trillion, why not abandon taiwan for 15trillion?? surly taiwain is worth more than $1trillion! and why dont americans sell off parts of usa to those who hold us-debt while theyre at it??? :/

[polarmerr]

@stefanmuc2k interesting. i read somewhere that Singapore was the least corrupt country in the world but i guess corruption has nothing to do with how free a country is.

[stefanmuc2k]

@hackneo64 I think this is mainly showing how Paul Kane wants the US to behave, and what that would look like. It's not how Taiwanese see the US. Anyway, China needs the US at least as much as the other way round, the last thing they can afford is to dump US bonds and see the value of their huge holdings drop to 0.

If the US was more willing to assert itself they could sell jets to Taiwan and earn some serious cash. China is going to play offended anyway, no matter how much arms you sell.