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Originally Posted by New Era
Seems to me you answered your own question. The policy of non-engagement with Taiwan was to keep China happy. The TPP was going to be the balancing lever in all of this, and the US was quietly going to promote Taiwan's membership in the TPP, giving them the political clout they needed in their political war with China. Trump withdrawing the US from the TPP did in both and gave China a big advantage in the region. To make matters worse, Trump started a trade war, where the US got its head caved in, negatively impacting almost all industries and especially costs to main street. Trump never thought strategically about global politics, never cared for alliances, and never thought about timeframes longer than an episode of Fox & Friends. Trump was a disaster in every way and the United States (and the world) will be feeling his incompetence for decades to come. WORST president in American history.
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To be fair, Hilary in the end said she would scrap the TPP, but that may of just been pandering in a last ditch effort to get elected.
As for the trade war, from what I understand- huge short term consequences short term, however, I think there is more too it, given the Democratic agreement to not remove the tariffs.