Defend Taiwan: The Reason Why – Center for Security Policy

Defend Taiwan: The Reason Why – Center for Security Policy

Sometimes it’s worth thinking about why you think what you think. Take the Republic of China on Taiwan. Defending Taiwan is an article of faith in some quarters. Yet not everywhere. A year-and-a-half ago an Asia security expert advising the American military and reportedly now under consideration for a job in the Trump administration told a small group, including me, that Taiwan should not be defended. The argument? The Chinese military is too s…