Yes, the official premise at this point is we will talk about Taiwan and China as if they were one entity, while we do things that support Taiwan... I don't want to say secretly, cuz it's not secret, but we do not make a big deal of it.

I honestly do not know enough about the balancing act of officially not recognizing Taiwan while still practically recognizing Taiwan, but I do know enough about the Trump Administration to know they don't know they walked into a minefield by merely putting that name on the list

Fun fact that the American Media has not noticed but China sure as hell has: The tariffs list Taiwan as a separate country from China. Probably cuz the list was generated by AI.

That...um... Look, I don't actually like our One China policy, and think we should do a little more to help Taiwan, but not only is it dangerous for us to stop it, I don't think these are the guys that are smart enough to transition us away from it.

And these geniuses have almost certainly done it because they are literally too stupid to know that listing Taiwan separate from China in a political document has Implications.

Toddlers are running our government. Vicious, petty, evil toddlers.

I find myself wondering if China is going to respond as if competent adults have changed US policy, or do they understand that it is pure incompetency over here?

Or will they understand but sort of be required to pretend that the US did this on purpose. Like, 'I know this guy is an idiot and didn't break the rules on purpose, but I still have to make an example of him keep order because if I let him get away with it, other people will start pushing the boundaries'.

There are a lot of people trying to figure out things in China right now, and the US government literally might not even understand conceptually what has happened.