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- Why China-Taiwan Relations Are So Tense | Council on Foreign Relations
- ROC = Republic of China = Taiwan – 23 million people (~98% want status quo)
Taiwan is the world’s top contract manufacturer of semiconductor chips.
Companies in Taiwan were responsible for more than 60 percent of revenue generated by the world’s semiconductor contract manufacturers in 2020.
TSMC = Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chip maker and the top supplier for US companies. It is one of only two companies in the world (the other is South Korea-based Samsung) that has the technological know-how to make the smallest, most advanced chips.
- KMT = Kuomintang party that ruled Taiwan (1949-1987) under martial law
- DPP = Democratic Progressive Party - President Tsai (Taiwan)
- PRC = People’s Republic of China = mainland China (Beijing)
President Xi (CCP PRC) reiterated China’s long-standing proposal for Taiwan: that it be incorporated into the mainland under the formula of “one country, two systems.” This is the same formula used for Hong Kong.
China rejects Taiwan’s participation as a member in UN agencies and other international organizations that limit membership to states.
No government has ever simultaneously maintained formal diplomatic ties with both China and Taiwan.
Xi has emphasized that unification with Taiwan is essential to achieving what he calls the Chinese Dream, which sees China’s great-power status restored by 2049.
PLA = China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
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- Donald Trump - (Drumpft) - Former USA President - Impeached twice
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- Donald Trump - Wikipedia
- Summary (according to the media): chronic inveterate serial liar and cheater, convicted criminal (felon), philanderer and convicted sexual abuser (Jean Carroll), business failure, fraudster & six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, traitor, coup plotter (= instigator of insurrection), thief of national secrets, impeached twice, self-declared martyr (when caught breaking rules or laws), etc...
- Evaded US military obligations; failed in business (at least six bankruptcies); plaintiff or defendant in more than 4,000 legal actions; successful TV reality series
- Loser of 2020 USA election, convicted felon in 2024 (34 counts of falsifying business records); indicted in 54 other felony counts related to his mishandling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election; found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in 2023, defamation in 2024, and for financial fraud; indicted on several other criminal charges
- Donald Trump Is the Tyrant George Washington Feared - The Atlantic - Subscription $
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- Family of Donald Trump - Wikipedia
- The family descended from Hanns Drumpf, who settled in Kallstadt, a village in the Palatinate, Germany.
- Variations in spelling of the surname: Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, Dromb, ...
- Friedrich Trump, the grandfather of Donald Trump, was born in 1869 in Kallstadt, DE (Kingdom of Bavaria). (NOT Sweden). In 1885, Friedrich Trump - the father of the late Fred Trump and the grandfather of President Donald Trump - immigrated from Germany to New York.
Then 16, Friedrich left before he could legally have been conscripted into the German military service, according to journalist. PolitiFact
- Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, grew up in a mainly German-speaking environment until he was ten years old. His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod (1912–2000), was from Scotland.
- Opinion: Trump’s video referencing Nazi Germany isn’t exactly a surprise | CNN
- RICO law = Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations = type of law originally created to prosecute the Mafia
- Inmate number: P01135809, GA 2023-08-24
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- c.f. - Antifa (United States) - Wikipedia - Anti-Fascists. Left-wing. Not a group, but just a decentralized array of peaceful groups promoting freedom.
- Trump Isn’t Merely Unhinged - The Atlantic
- Full PDF: Read Georgia's indictment of Trump in 2020 election
- 2023-08-14
- Full PDF of Trump indictment in Jack Smith's 2020 election and Jan. 6 probe
- Opinion | Coup-Coup-Ca-Choo, Trump-Style - The New York Times
- 2023-08-05
- "Exquisite projection. In Trump’s warped view, it’s always the other guy who’s doing what Trump is actually doing."
- Opinion: The United States v. Donald Trump: Trump cannot win. That’s what makes him so dangerous - The Globe and Mail
- We have far more to fear from stupidity than evil - Big Think
- Lion - Trump is a lion, the king of the jungle
- How One Legal Expert Frames The Case Against Trump As A RICO Conspiracy - YouTube - see graphic (on right)
- Attempted Self-coup (failed) | self-coup, also called autocoup (from the Spanish autogolpe)
- How Does the U.S. Classify Its Most Sensitive Documents? | HowStuffWorks
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- Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) - AcqNotes
- Special Access Program (SAP) - AcqNotes
- Human Intelligence Control System = Human Clandestine Sources (HCS) = a form of SCI
- Signals Intelligence = Special Intelligence (SI) = a form of SCI that is “designed to protect technical and intelligence information derived from the monitoring of foreign communications signals by other than the intended recipients.
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- Classification of official information. | CFR | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
- The Affidavit for the Search of Trump’s Home, Annotated - The New York Times - $subscription
- The Shovel’s view on the Donald Trump FBI raid | The Shovel
- Five Times Donald Trump Has Bashed Pleading The Fifth | MTP Daily | MSNBC - YouTube
- Future-proofing the Presidency - The Boston Globe - June 2021
- Capitol Violence - 2021-01-06 - FBI Investigation into Trump's Insurrection
- How Trump Could Lose the Election—And Still Remain President | Opinion - PDF
- Every Day That Trump Remains in Office Is a Dangerous Day for America
- Negligent Homicide Defined
- Negligent homicide is typically classified as involuntary manslaughter, due to the implied lack of malice and intent.
- Republican Voters Against Trump = RVaT
- Personality of DTrump
- A letter from mental health professionals on Trump’s dangerous psychopathology - Anti-Psychopath Political Action Committee
- Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
- Just "Positive" or "Negative" Experiences, Are More Meaningful in Life
- Mary Trump | Interview Analysis | Donald Trump & Attachment Theory - YouTube
- Amazon.com: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (9781982141462): Trump Ph.D., Mary L.: Books
- Sociopathy, Psychopathy
- Psychopathy - Wikipedia
- Psychopathy Checklist - Wikipedia - Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) protocol
- Psychopathic Personality Inventory - Wikipedia
- Antisocial personality disorder - Wikipedia
- The lack of remorse, and disregard for the feelings of others, along with not being able to distinguish between right and wrong.
They’re extremely manipulative, lie constantly and are adept at cultivating those willing to do their bidding. Always planning. Always plotting. Always 10 steps ahead. Leaving a wake of destruction.
Sociopaths are "charming and glib" controllers always and forever seeking to benefit themselves.
He thrives on chaos, delights in hurting people, has no respect for the rule of law and sees everything through the lens of his own self interest.
Sociopathy is subsumed under antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) which can apply can apply to someone whose behavior aligns with the accepted definition of either sociopathy or psychopathy (it's hard to differentiate).
- Solipsism - Wikipedia
- As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. Only the existence of one’s thoughts is known for certain.
- Egotism - Wikipedia
- Egotist has an overwhelming sense of the centrality of the "me" regarding their personal qualities.
Egotists have a strong tendency to talk about themselves in a self-promoting fashion, and they may well be arrogant and boastful with a grandiose sense of their own importance. Their inability to recognise the accomplishments of others leaves them profoundly self-promoting; while sensitivity to criticism may lead, on the egotist's part, to narcissistic rage at a sense of insult.
- "Never apologize, never retreat" (source? Roy Cohn?). It was Trump who erased “shame” from the political vocabulary.
- Deflect and distract, never give in, never admit fault, lie and attack, lie and attack, publicity no matter what, win no matter what, all underpinned by a deep, prove-me-wrong belief in the power of chaos and fear.
- Quote Origin: Never Retract. Never Explain. Get It Done and Let Them Howl | by Quote Investigator® | Medium
- Who Said... - quotes | Ask MetaFilter
- Roy Cohn's three rules for winning — always attack, deny everything, and never admit defeat — remain core tenets of Trump's political playbook.
- "Malignant narcissism is a psychological syndrome comprising a mix of narcissism, antisocial behavior, sadism and a paranoid outlook on life.
Some signs include: a sense of entitlement; a significant need for attention, admiration and recognition; an inflated sense of self-importance; a tendency to take advantage of others or exploit people for personal gain; arrogant or conceited behavior and attitudes; a tendency to react angrily when others don’t seem to regard them with the admiration they need and feel they deserve; a pattern of irresponsible, arrogant or disrespectful behavior; disdain for authority and social norms, shown by continued illegal or law-breaking behavior; a pattern of deceit; little or no remorse for harmful or illegal actions; and a generally hostile, irritable, aggressive, restless or agitated mood.
Does that sound like anyone we know?"
Stan Sano, Makiki
- Trump's Promises Made, Promises Broken
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- Trump's Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance - The New York Times
- Trumpisms - Rhetoric of Donald Trump - Wikipedia
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