I'd say this paragraph from September is holding up, in light of the president's plan to sell our frontier GPU technology to China, to bail out soybean farmers from a crisis he created for no good reason. Particularly: <<... the White House is not doing “state capitalism” so

Declaring “the United States will not support Taiwan independence” isn’t bold—it’s Beijing’s favorite karaoke line, now sung with extra enthusiasm. And “welcoming unification” as a peaceful outcome? That’s not nuance; that’s narrative outsourcing.

*Wouldn’t sell out Taiwan.* True, because you can’t sell what you’ve already appraised at a discount. Telling Taipei to “restrain itself” while Beijing keeps the loaded gun on the table is like telling the hostage not to provoke the kidnapper.