I don't hate Taiwan, but I don't feel a close affinity.

I like China a lot more.

Taiwan's history is complex; I find it different from mine, and I have regarded it as a potential security concern that, in my view, has been addressed.

I think Western media have at times emphasized the Taiwan story in ways that criticize China or portray Xi Jinping negatively.

A lot of the time, they rely on portraying Chinese as inferior, to make them into clowns, to laugh at or ridicule which is cheap.

I draw parallels between Japan in WW2, with today's ugly cartoons of Xi Jinping, which has escalated from taking potshots at Kim Jong Un or his dad over the last century; don't mistake the two.

However, I feel the issue has been exaggerated.

It's a small island of 36,200 sq km, which I consider part of China, or has been a part of China, nobody gave Taiwan island to the Chinese leader who lost the civil war, and fled there, he claims he was emperor over all China, and therefore had the authority to do so, as it belonged to him, but I disagree with that, as much as I respect his not inconsequential support of the Allies during WW2.

I feel in next 10 - 20 years, that Taiwan which is a semi, partially free-to-self-rule, autonomous area, will be inevitably unified.

Although I won't make the same mistake in history as JFK's racist father Joseph to dissuade FDR from helping UK with Nazis, I will suggest to Trump to let China resolve their own internal, domestic disputes on their own.

They're half the size of SL

We're also 23m people

Hong Kong is 3 sq km

It's 8m

Sri Lanka was independent for 1,000s of years, our borders were drawn from ocean coastlines, which don't change frequently.

I'm happy to be nice to Jensen Huang or Kai Fu Li, but I want to do things with Trump, as I see him as a political leader who gets to decide what the USA does

I believe Trump can buy 10% of Intel as US gov't or determine whether TMSC is worth $4 trillion or $0 (or minus $4T) with the stroke of a pen or the post of a Truth Social message.

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I don't think we can succeed by aligning with parties I believe are unlikely to prevail.