David Frum

David Frum @davidfrum

Biden's clear, forceful, and repeated statementsTaiwan are not Trump-like random noises. They are terse, precise commitments by a president who previously served as chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has been thinking about the region for nearly half a century. — PolitiTweet.org

David Frum @davidfrum

The rationale of "strategic ambiguity" re Taiwan was that PRC would be content with a fiction of theoretical sovereignty. If US indulged that fiction, the doctrine held, China would peacefully let Taiwan govern itself democratically. Hence policy: defend Taiwan, but don't say so — PolitiTweet.org