Taiwan: ignore China’s conniptions

The primary U.S. role should be to ensure that Taiwan urgently rebuilds its military defences, ignoring all Chinese threats and imprecations. Avoiding a Chinese-American war should be the highest strategic priority for both countries, and this, paradoxically, would be the most valuable U.S. contribution, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, left, had a courtesy meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan on April 5 in California. Beijing reacted by issuing a 'stern warning' to the United States, and then 'encircled' the island (its own words) with Chinese fighters, bombers, naval destroyers, and missile boats.Photographs courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 13, 2023

LONDON—China has been having conniptions again.

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