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.

  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    People won’t change if they don’t want to and offering what you suggest open us up to significant risk. Offering compassion, understanding and acceptance of ppl who are already killing others doesn’t seem wise to me. Some of these people are epsychopaths and sociopaths, their empathy, neurologically, physically doesn’t function. No amount of love can change that.

    Secondly those apes successfully got us to the top of the food chain and out of the reach of most natural hazards and predators. Those same apes getting more power is a massive liability though so the rest of us seem stuck between psychos with nukes and lovers who can’t protect themselves from physical harms.

    I don’t think love is the answer here, certainly not on this own.

    • hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip
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      11 hours ago

      Well, if you were hurt or bullied by people in the past, I hope someone shows you love and compassion today. If everyone were truly given those things in life, we wouldn’t have so much evil in this world. Hurt people hurt others.

      • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        Thanks? This isn’t about me, it’s about people like Donald Trump, who raped children and enjoyed it. I don’t think we can afford the cost of loving them until they stop desiring to do horrible things to others.