Taiwan will never join in, even if they wanted to. It would stir the pot too much with China.

But Japan’s presence also means it hopes to gain aid for when China invades Japan. That may sound silly, but China claims a lot of Japanese islands as theirs. Some of which are very close to Taiwan.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

Though looking a bit deeper just now it does seem he has backpedalled his stance after the backlash. So who know what the current state is.

It’s a start. But take Proton, sure it’s based in Switzerland, but the CEO is also MAGA. So is Proton good or not?

Look interesting, thanks for sharing.

Not rhetoric. It’s a subject I know little about. My initial thoughts though are that the US more or less invited themselves and everybody was fine with that.

But who put them there? Was Europe begging the US for more troops. Or did the US decide to deploy them?

Every country is free to make it’s own agreements internationally. But it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Bargaining as the EU instead of an individual country gives you so much more bargaining power.

China for sure. Taiwan only on paper, in practice it’s fine with the territory it has and has no ambitions of ousting the CPP and regaining it’s former territories. But if Taiwan breaks this “stalemate” than China will consider it a declaration of independence. Which is also weird, since Taiwan (formally the Republic of China) has been an independent nation since 1912 and is a direct continuation of 250 years of Qing Dynasty rule. Whilst China (formally the People’s Republic of China) was split of from the ROC in 1949.

Which even weirder is that the British obtained Hong Kong from the Qing Dynasty. And since the ROC is the continuation of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong should be returned to Taiwan. But for obvious practical reasons that was not what happened.

The cloud is amazing. As long as you control the cloud. I’ve been considering a Homelab for this very reason for some time.