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US wants new trade talks with China, but would be politically toxic for Biden to hold out an olive branch - report:

If handing out a peaceful/friendly olive branch is deemed as toxic, what other actions have not been politically more toxic, dangerous, threatening..

Goodness gracious..

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China deserves no olive branch until they retract their 9-dash line claim over the South China Sea, allow a full open international investigation into the origins of Covid19 including all WIV material, the same for the Uighur detention centers, re-instate democratic rule of Hong Kong until the agreed handover date, recognize the Senkakus as Japanese territory, denounce the use of force against Taiwan and recognize it's self determination, etc etc etc etc....China, what a toxic country.

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The White House said last week it did not have a position on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was passed by the U.S. Senate in July.

Shame.

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The U.S. also signaled this week that for the time being it plans to stick with tariffs levied against China during the Trump administration.

I must say that I am surprised by this.

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Still, the U.S.-China relationship has been under strain, exacerbated recently by the Chinese military's flying dozens of sorties near the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing considers part of its territory.

> I think that china should just give it up because they don't own Taiwan and if they invade, and will probably happen then that will start WWIII and every one knows that.

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The White House said last week it did not have a position on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was passed by the U.S. Senate in July.

Here is the exact exchange with the Press Secretary during that October 6th briefing:

Q And then one foreign policy question. Does the White House have a position yet on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which passed unanimously in the Senate?

And just broadly in that same context, how do you respond to the criticism from Senator Rubio and some Republicans that the administration is sort of letting Beijing have some advantage on human rights abuses to try to win over their cooperation on climate issues?

MS. PSAKI: Well, we would absolutely dispute that notion. Unlike the former President, this President has spoken out against human rights abuses, has raised his concerns about human rights abuses directly with President Xi, and we have done that at every level from our national security team.

In terms of the legislation, obviously we have spoken out about our concerns of human rights abuses in Xinjiang. And I would also note that the President also led an effort to have coordination on the international stage to address this issue, unlike his predecessors.

But I’d have to talk to our legislative team about specific views on the — in the piece of legislation. I know I spoke to it briefly last week, but I’ll — I’ll come back to you with that.

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 I think that china should just give it up because they don't own Taiwan and if they invade, and will probably happen then that will start WWIII and every one knows that.

Not necessarily. There are non-nuclear ways to do enough damage to an invasion force, example heavily mining the straits from the air, heavy use of land based cruise missiles and rockets to attack landing force ships, an amphibious force can suffer enough losses to make a viable assault impossible. The US Marines certainly do not plan to conduct old fashioned beach assaults onto defended beaches like WWII. Today with enemies who have hundreds, maybe thousands of cruise missiles that can be fired at landing force ships and ballistic missiles that can pound a landing beach the old fashioned D-Day style assault is no longer survivable. If China thought they could prevail they would have attacked long ago. There is a lot Taiwan can do alongside US and maybe Japanese, Australian and Canadian forces to break up an amphibious attack. The Chinese leadership knows this too and in some ways as the US fields new weapons and aircraft it isn't really getting better for them.

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