{"id":55104,"date":"2020-09-21T06:47:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55104"},"modified":"2020-09-21T06:47:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:47:02","slug":"the-taiwan-strait-getting-hot-hot-hot2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55104","title":{"rendered":"The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot\u20262.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/global-macro-monitor.com\/2020\/09\/21\/the-taiwan-strait-getting-hot-hot-hot2-0\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot\u20262.0<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=macromon&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1307931709577596934&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fglobal-macro-monitor.com%2F2020%2F09%2F21%2Fthe-taiwan-strait-getting-hot-hot-hot2-0%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1307931709577596934\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We originally posted the following in October 2018 after President Trump threw Montenegro, then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/topics_52044.htm\">the newest member of NATO<\/a>\u00a0under the bus a few months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>We suspected POTUS\u2019 loose lips would someday sink ships, at least metaphorically, if not literally.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63932 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/image.png?w=632\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/image.png?w=328 328w, https:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/image.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/image.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/image.png 632w\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"326\" data-attachment-id=\"63932\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/global-macro-monitor.com\/image-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/image.png\" data-orig-size=\"632,628\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/image.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/macromon.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/image.png?w=632\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The flapping of his jaws back in July 2018, we believe, triggered the geopolitical dynamics, sending a signal to Moscow and Beijing that the U.S. was not committed to its allies and we now find ourselves on the verge of a geopolitical hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>As if the market didn\u2019t have enough on its plate dealing with its<a href=\"https:\/\/global-macro-monitor.com\/2020\/08\/27\/time-for-some-context-again\/\">\u00a0extreme overvaluation<\/a>\u00a0and the current American political shit show.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/global-macro-monitor.com\/2018\/10\/21\/the-taiwan-strait-getting-hot-hot-hot\/\">The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot,\u00a0Hot\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Posted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global-macro-monitor.com\/2018\/10\/21\/the-taiwan-strait-getting-hot-hot-hot\/\">October 21, 2018<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global-macro-monitor.com\/author\/macromon\/\">macromon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/macromon.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/18\/the-day-strategic-ambiguity-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted the following in July<\/a>\u00a0after President Trump threw Montenegro under the bus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em><strong>Taiwan may be about to get hot, hot, hot in the next year after last night\u2019s Commander in Chief\u2019s ambiguous message on defense treaties.\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/macromon.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/18\/the-day-strategic-ambiguity-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GMM<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>One of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/macromon.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GMM<\/a>\u2018s most excellent followers, who we very much like and respect, responded with this:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em><strong>This whole article is a science-fiction of oh, this could happen, and oh that could happen\u2026. And we could be hit with an asteroid tomorrow. Just sit back and watch the hands that are dealt and how they are played. This article is either Sci-fi or false news. Your choice!<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We still like and respect the reader, by the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Montenegro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the way, in case your wondering about Montenegro?\u00a0 It didn\u2019t take a Ph.D. in international relations to figure out Trump\u2019s interview with Fox would lather up Putin and wasn\u2019t difficult to anticipate the outcome.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an interview with Fox\u2019s Tucker Carlson last night, President Trump seemed to question the raison d\u2019\u00eatre of NATO and foreign alliances in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot\u20262.0 We originally posted the following in October 2018 after President Trump threw Montenegro, then\u00a0the newest member of NATO\u00a0under the bus a few months earlier. We suspected POTUS\u2019 loose lips would someday sink ships, at least metaphorically, if not literally. The flapping of his jaws back in July 2018, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2045,130,15450,10908,542,553,22454,827],"class_list":["post-55104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-global-macro-monitor","tag-montenegro","tag-moscow","tag-nato","tag-taiwan-strait","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55105,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55104\/revisions\/55105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}