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"China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation" (Simon Tisdall, The Guardian)
"The US hasn’t just left Ukraine vulnerable; it is also provoking Xi’s intensifying attitude towards what he considers a renegade province"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/china-donald-trump-xi-jinping-taiwan-trade
🔸Which probably explains Japanese media finally (albeit timidly) daring to point out US admin's for-profit attempt to throw Ukraine to the Russian bear. (As if we haven't had a surfeit of bears to worry about)