CRS report says US could use clout to help Taiwan

“As US allies and hosts of US military facilities, they potentially could become a factor in any US-China conflict over Taiwan,” it said.

As the US and Japan in 2005 declared Taiwan a mutual security concern, the report says, “it is in China’s interests, then, to use its diplomatic and economic activities to exert quiet pressure on these US allies to stay out of any possible conflict over Taiwan,” the CRS report said.