Former president Donald Trump said he “wouldn’t have to” use military force against a China blockade of Taiwan because Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping respects him and “knows I’m [expletive] crazy.”
A blockade to cut off the trade routes of the self-governed island, to cause natural resource depletion and panic among the Taiwanese, is a tactic that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could deploy in an attempt to force Taiwan to surrender to its governance.
Trump told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Oct. 18 that instead of a military response, he would raise tariffs on China-made goods to 150–200 percent if Xi or the CCP decided to besiege Taiwan….