Taiwan insists it is independent after Trump warning

[SouthBayDem]

Source: BBC

Taiwan has insisted it is a sovereign, independent nation, after US President Donald Trump cautioned it against formally declaring independence from China.

Trump's remarks came after a two-day summit in Beijing, after which he said he had "made no commitment either way" about the self-governing island - which China claims as part of its territory and has not ruled out taking by force.

After talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump also said he would soon decide whether to approve an $11bn ($8bn) package of weapons to be sold to Taiwan.

The US administration is bound by law to provide Taiwan with a means of self-defence, but has frequently had to square this alliance with maintaining a diplomatic relationship with China.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2132w81jqo

[ImNotGod]

1. tRump doesn't like sovereign, independent nations which is why he wants the US to be a russian satellite. nt

[progree]

2. archive (short article)

Last edited Sun May 17, 2026, 04:45 AM - Edit history (3)

https://web.archive.org/web/20260517064611/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2132w81jqo
(edited to replace the archive site with a very reputable one after receiving the warning from SouthBayDem below)

On Saturday, presidential spokesperson Karen Kuo said it was "self-evident" that Taiwan was "a sovereign, independent democratic country".

She added, however, that Taiwan was committed to maintaining the status quo with China - in which Taiwan neither declares independence from China nor unites with it.

[SouthBayDem]

4. Did you know the Archive.xx sites are banned by Wikipedia?

According to ArsTechnica:

In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.

“There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links), and remove all links to it,” stated an update today on Wikipedia’s Archive.today discussion. “There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users’ computers to run a DDoS attack (see WP:ELNO#3). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today’s operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable.”

(Archive.is, archive.ph, archive.xx, etc. are different from web.archive.org or ghostarchive.org)

[RoseTrellis]

3. Taiwan belongs to China

Most of the world recognizes that Taiwan is a part of China, it’s been like this forever.

“According to a Lowy Institute tally in January 2025, about 74 percent (142) of the UN member states explicitly endorse the PRC's position that Taiwan is part of China, 23 of those states do not endorse the one-China principle, and others merely acknowledge or respect rather than recognize the PRC position.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Taiwan]