If the US thinks it can solve the next problem in Asia by selling out Taiwan to the Middle Kingdom of Pollution and Poison, it will have dug a much bigger hole for itself to climb out of than it can ever have imagined.
Which brings us back to where we began. Does the US really have a valid strategy for Taiwan's democracy? Is the US a supporter of democracy? Judge for yourself.
The collateral damage created by the US' strategies (or lack of them) continues to mount and there seems to be no one at the State Department with any grasp of the mentality and manipulativeness of the rulers of China. Or if there is, no one is listening to him.
Instead, the State Department's only creative solution is to drone on about the danger of Chen saying the unthinkable and even daring to ask that Taiwan's 23 million be represented in the UN.
Jerome Keating is a Taiwan-based writer.
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