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Jazzme's avatar

Your nuts. Defend Taiwan with our young kids blood and guts. No way. Taiwan is part of China. If Taiwan wants to talk autonomy or some other arrangement with China; fine with me. But we should bud out of this dance china and Taiwan has been dancing to since the dyspora. You go and your kids and kin to bleed but keep me and my kin out. Get a gun and join their revolution. Here in the states I'm fighting my own revolution for my dwindling rights. Again: YOUR NUTS! Let's work on our system which needs radical change imho.

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Charles's avatar

Beautifully stated, Daniel. The advocates of so-called "strategic clarity" don't want to deter Beijing, they want to provoke Beijing. They cannot possibly think reversing a policy that has resulted in a peaceful status quo for nearly a half-century in the face of an unresolved territorial dispute is going to promote peace.

Say what you will about the American foreign policy establishment (I say many things about them, mostly curse-words) but strategic ambiguity is a masterful policy. It achieves the best possible outcome for the U.S., China, and Taiwan. Abandoning it would be another step towards World War III.

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