David Frum

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But as China has escalated toward demanding real-world actual sovereignty over Taiwan, "strategic ambiguity" has ceased to keep peace. It's begun to invite aggression by sowing doubt about what the US would really do - especially after then-President Trump shrugged off Taiwan — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 24, 2022

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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

Posted May 24, 2022

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Now-president Biden is providing China with information it needs to know. Biden is securing peace by confirming long-standing US policy that was confused by Trump's "Taiwan is doomed" blathering. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 24, 2022