Well it's a single trading block with free internal trade, it would be Impossible have different import tax levels for different countries within the union without them being trivial to circumvent.

At this point in time, China is just sitting back and laughing as Trump weaken the US.

Remember, don't correct an enemy as they are making a mistake.

I don't think so, I think he'd be on the side of whoever is fighting China. He's got it in for them, and has for a very long time.

My worst case scenario is that HitlerPig keaves NATO, and joins an alliance with Russia, China, North Korea, etc.

As a show of good faith to his new "friends," he will give Alaska back to Russia, and Taiwan back to China. He will claim it's a good deal, because they gave him Canada and Geeenland, even though those countries aren't theirs to give.

He'll act like the lonely rich kid, bribing the cool kids to let him hang with them, but they'll just use him for what they can get from him, and hate him all the same.

Art of the Green Deal

looking for a silver lining.... good on you friend. thank you for the perspective shift

That's kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.

The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.

As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don't think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the "rightful" rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.

As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being. War would be devastating for Taiwan in particular.