Would Losing Taiwan Be An Unrecoverable Blow To America’s Strength And Influence?

Michael Allen, FOX News: China conquers Taiwan, it would be huge blow to US national security, economy  

Battlefield success would put China in a position to dominate rest of Asia 

Imagine deterrence fails and China successfully takes Taiwan. How would it affect the U.S. economy and inform whether the U.S. should fight China for Taiwan’s freedom? 

Losing Taiwan would be an unrecoverable blow to America’s strength and influence. An absorption of Taiwan’s GDP into China would give it enhanced market power. Taiwan’s centrality to the sea’s busiest lanes of international commerce would give China an even greater launching pad to dominate Asia. Would China abuse its economic superiority and new position atop the strategic crossways of Asia? Its current economic behavior suggests it would.  

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