With communist authorities in China openly and gleefully shredding the post-World War II liberal order, it may be time for the United States and Taiwan to show Beijing the dangers of doing so by allowing Taiwan to become a nuclear weapons power.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is on the warpath. He has abrogated the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration which guaranteed Hong Kong’s special status more than a quarter-century early. He has precipitated the worst military crisis with India since the 1962 Sino-India War. His repression and incarceration of the Uighur minority is on a scale far greater than what happened during the Balkan wars at the end of the 20th century. China’s artificial island-building in the South China Sea and its farcical and ahistorical claims to the “Nine-Dash Line” represent a land grab against the Philippines and the theft of maritime resources against other regional states.
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WNU Editor: The old order and alliances are changing. More so in Asia than anywhere else. The possibility of Taiwan rushing to build nuclear weapons to defend its freedom and independence may have sounded absurd years ago. No more now.
From a state security perspective they have every interest in going the way of Israel and acquiring nuclear weapons in as quiet a way as possible. I mean the balance of power advantage for a small state under perpetual threat of a rather hopeless conventional forces dynamic is unquestionable.
ReplyDeleteEasy peasy, Quick & no fuss. Buy one off the shelf. Buy 2 or 3 Ohios & some Tridents from Pres Trump. That'll pee on Xi's cornflakes. Peaking Duck n cover heh heh heh. Keep ducking 🖖😎
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