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by stale2002 822 days ago
> Is the US chinaphobic or something?

Well, china makes many threats to invade our allies, like Taiwan. (Officially declared or not. We give them weapons)

China is quite literally on a list of military enemies.

Yes, it is reasonably to be fearful of countries that are likely going to go to war with your allies. Just like it is reasonable for the government of ukraine to be afraid of the invading russian army.

Our cold war relationship with china could change in the future. They are going to have to make a lot of changes first, such as swearing off invading our allied country taiwan.

But, until that happens, china is right now on the path to actual war with the US in around 5 years.

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Technically, the US official position on Taiwan is that they are not even independent, let alone an ally.

Of course it would be silly to sell them Aegis missile systems if we really believed that. But that's our official position.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-05/us-upgrad...

> US Upgrades Taiwan Weapons Package With Newer Patriot Missiles

Not an ally though.

Correct. Not even officially recognized as a country, it came out of the Nixon talks.

Yes, it's silly.

They can be both an ally and not officially recognized as a country due to complicated political and diplomatic reasons.
Not without sprinkling the word "unofficially" in front of various nouns, including the key noun "ally".
In the context of my comment, any group that receives significant military funding or support from the US counts as an Ally.

The dictionary definition is irrelevant to my point, because I wasn't using your definition of the word ally.

So my original point stands.