RE: US to cut miliatary aid to Taiwan if China Airlines gets 330
Ok, let’s end this right now. I’m not necessarily condoning what the U.S. is doing, for the record. Naturally being the only American on here, I had to say something. I’m looking at this purely from a business point of view. Obviously there are political implications involved, as well. I’m not even going to touch those, because the point you make about “BA buying from Airbus” is a very valid one, as well. I won’t deny that. Theoretically, the U.S. could be denying aid to every country that it supports, if they buy from Airbus, not just the UK, as you mentioned. I think this is a special case with Taiwan, as they have counted on the U.S. for so long for protection from Communist China. Without that, they obviously could have been taken down when Mao Zedong was still in power. Given that, U.S. is using the ‘ace in the hole,’ so to speak, as bargaining leverage. My father owns a business, all of my uncles own businesses, my cousin who is younger than I just opened a business. In a world of competition, people are ruthless. Some of the stories I’ve heard, people will do anything and everything to keep potential, current and future customers. Roughly 90% of these tactics could be seen as coldblooded, even borderline blackmail. It’s sad Kev, but that’s business. Everybody does it, you just don’t necessarily hear about it. The U.S. gov’t in siding with Boeing here, is using business tactics. Right or wrong, world police or no world police, it’s business. They are protecting their own, as wrong as it seems.
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