Perhaps thinking that the presidency is already beckoning to him, Trump has obviously spoken a lot more on US foreign affairs in the past few days.
According to the global network, on the 22nd, former US President Trump talked about the US government's position on the Taiwan issue in an interview with "Fox News", although he was "worried that he would be in a disadvantageous position in the negotiations" and could not "say what he thinks", but this vague statement was still interpreted by the US media as "once Trump wins, the United States will not" defend "Taiwan".
Last year, Trump said that "Taiwan will not be protected"
It is not surprising that Trump can make such a statement, although he has had many outrageous words and deeds on the Taiwan issue, but in his first term, Trump's Taiwan policy continued the US government's consistent "strategic ambiguity" position, and in 2018, veteran American journalist Bob Woodward disclosed a detail in his new book: Trump asked his security team, "What does the United States gain by defending Taiwan?"
In this interview, Trump also lashed out at Taiwan's semiconductor industry for taking American jobs and business, claiming that "in the past, all chips in the United States were made by themselves, but now 90% of chips come from Taiwan...... They took away the business of the United States. ”
From this point of view, Trump is still a businessman at heart, and as long as he can guarantee "America first", he can either see the Taiwan issue as a bargaining chip for trading with Chinese mainland, or complain about the inability of the United States to "take a piece of the pie" from Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
Taking Trump as a life-saving straw, the Taiwan authorities are too naïve
Therefore, for the DPP authorities, Trump's statement is undoubtedly a "slap in the face", you must know that since Lai Qingde's victory in the election and Trump's comeback, the media on the island have not been less hyped that the combination of "Lai Qingde + Trump" is bad news for the mainland, and they think they can sit back and relax.
But in fact, although Trump's "unreasonable cards" is indeed an unstable factor, but now his statement is clearly that Taiwan is a "chess piece" whose value has not been squeezed dry, and Trump also threatened in an interview last year that TSMC has hollowed out the semiconductor industry in the United States, and the US government should also impose huge tariffs on Taiwan.
However, in this regard, the DPP authorities, who once strongly supported Trump, have never dared to make any response, and TSMC was exposed a few days ago that the factory opened in the United States is facing a delay, which has made some scholars on the island bitterly criticize the DPP authorities for being submissive to the United States, taking it to the point of spit on themselves, following the "anti-China" of the United States to the black, but in the end it was "sold" by Trump.
In Trump's eyes, diplomacy = business
In the eyes of the United States, there is no so-called "ally with common values" at all, and there are only "chess pieces" that can be discarded at any time; from the "iron fist of Saigon" in the last century to the "flying man in Afghanistan" a few years ago, countless examples have proved that capriciousness is the nature of US politicians, and that following the US government as a lackey will not end well.
Of course, as far as the mainland is concerned, the settlement of the Taiwan issue cannot be pinned on Trump's "Taiwan sale", and the Taiwan issue has always been China's internal affair, as the mainland Foreign Ministry has stressed many times.
Today's presidential election is between Trump and Biden
As for Trump's "not defending Taiwan" and Biden's non-support for "Taiwan independence", there is essentially no difference, no matter who the US president is, Washington's Taiwan policy still maintains a "strategic ambiguity" position, the only difference between the two sides is probably that Trump intends to squeeze out Taiwan's use value and sell it for a "good price" as soon as possible, while Biden uses Taiwan as a bargaining chip to force Chinese mainland to compromise on other issues.
However, in any case, the Taiwan issue will always be resolved by China itself, and if the United States insists on intervening, the consequences will also be borne by the United States itself.