The US has warned Taiwan for decades of the possible threat from China. The recent conflict in Ukraine has been used by the US to ratchet up fear in Taiwan.
Beijing claims Taiwan as a Chinese province and has sworn to "unify" it. Taiwan has spent billions on weapons purchases from the US, and last week the defense minister ordered a return to a full year of conscription for young Taiwanese men and ended a non-military public service alternative.
Admiral Lee Hsi-ming, the former navy chief and chief of the general staff, has called for a government-backed territorial-defense force. Lee's proposal was written with Michael Hunzeker, a military expert at George Mason University.
While speaking in Japan recently, US President Joe Biden has warned China is "flirting with danger" over Taiwan, vowed to intervene militarily to protect the island if it is attacked, and drew a parallel between Taiwan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This is the second time in recent months he has unequivocally stated the US would defend Taiwan if China attacked.
When the press asked if the US would defend Taiwan militarily, even though the US has not done so in the invasion of Ukraine, he responded, "Yes... that's the commitment we made."
During the term of Clinton, there was the US-NATO attack on Yugoslavia, under Bush there was the US attack on Iraq and Afghanistan, under Obama there was the US-NATO attack on Libya and Syria, and all of those projects were for regime change. Now there is Biden at the helm, and he has started a proxy war in Ukraine to weaken Russia. The Ukrainian conflict is only a few months old and Biden is already threatening an attack on China.
Steven Sahiounie is a two-time award-winning journalist
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