David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island

David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island

Donald Trump offered to sell weapons to China while hosting its leader, Xi Jinping, last week, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday.

David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday: “President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point.”

The extraordinary claim came during an interview about US policy on Taiwan, which has been waiting for months for Trump to approve a new arms sales ⁠package worth $14bn, after a record multi-billion dollar deal was unveiled in December last year.

Trump’s level of commitment to protecting Taiwan has previously been questioned. At a meeting with Xi in Beijing in May, ⁠Trump said he was keeping the $14bn Taiwan arms sales package in abeyance, describing it as a “very good negotiating chip” in dealings with China.

  • hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip
    1·
    18 hours ago

    According to him, now it is. And we’ll be governed from the corporate board rooms of hedge funds and multinationals.

    Prepare for healthcare brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

      • hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip
        1·
        13 hours ago

        IDGAF if I can buy a mountain of cheap Amazon products and keep it all in my storage unit, right? Wash my triple cheeseburger down with not one, but two American Dews? Drive my massively oversized coal-rolling truck that gets 5 miles per gallon?

        • WizardOfFrobozz@lemmy.ca
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Hell, you’re making yourself sound much worse than I was.

          I thought you were just a mostly decent person with generally good intentions who was just too fucking pants-pissing cowardly to get off your ass and do something about it, hoping that “being one of the good ones” was enough.

          I mean, feel free to self-essentialize as you like, though. Enjoy MAGA.