Taiwan has the world's 20th largest economy, bigger than Turkey, Austria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Poland, South Afria, just to name a few. It is also a democratic country. For us to negotiate away its sovereignty and place it under a Communist dictatorship would be morally reprehensible and an act of enormous betrayal.
The similarity is the difficulty, or even impossibility, of defending it against China. If such a defense becomes a reality, I hope we would have a better commander than MacArthur was in the Philippines in 1941.
For us to negotiate away its sovereignty and place it under a Communist dictatorship would be morally reprehensible and an act of enormous betrayal.
I agree but look who is in charge: