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Taiwanese people are human beings, not video game parts gremlins. And then what if it doesn't stop there? (South China Sea, Japan, Philippines, etc)

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I very much sympathize with Taiwan and have known some wonderful Taiwanese people in my life who will suffer greatly if there is a war. I just don't think America should get into a hot war with China over the island. We didn't for Tibet, Macau, Hong Kong, etc. The reason the hawks care more about Taiwan rather than Tibet is because of semiconductor manufacturing.

I also think we should host a sovereign election and ask the Taiwanese people what they think we should do.

No, they care because it would allow the MIC to make bank once more.

>I also think we should host a sovereign election and ask the Taiwanese people what they think we should do.

Taiwan already has a democractically-elected President. Instead of holding a "sovereign election," you could just listen to her:

>Tsai expressed her solidarity with Hong Kong protesters, remarking that Taiwan's democracy was hard-earned and had to be guarded and renewed. Pledging that as long as she was Taiwan's president, she would never accept "one country, two systems", Tsai cited what she considered to be the constant and rapid deterioration of Hong Kong's democracy over the course of 20 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsai_Ing-wen

The US is not the World Police.

Imagine if the US had that attitude during WW2.

Forgive me if I'm missing your joke, but most of the American public did think that way. Most of the American public was against war until Japan attacked America. And responding to an attack is not what I would call being "world police". Nor is going to war with Germany after Germany declared war on America.

This is why America entered the war so late. If America were thinking of itself as world police at the time, why did it take America so long to actually go to war?

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