Posted on 05/28/2020 12:55:02 PM PDT by PghBaldy
The Taiwan Relations Act does not guarantee the USA will intervene militarily if the PRC attacks or invades Taiwan nor does it relinquish it, as its primary purpose is to ensure the US's Taiwan policy will not be changed unilaterally by the president and ensure any decision to defend Taiwan will be made with the consent of Congress. The act states that "the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capabilities". However, the decision about the nature and quantity of defense services that America will provide to Taiwan is to be determined by the President and Congress. America's policy has been called "strategic ambiguity" and it is designed to dissuade Taiwan from a unilateral declaration of independence, and to dissuade the PRC from unilaterally unifying Taiwan with the PRC.
The act further stipulates that the United States will "consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States".
This act also requires the United States to have a policy "to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character", and "to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan." Successive U.S. administrations have sold arms to Taiwan in compliance with the Taiwan Relations Act despite demands from the PRC that the U.S. follow the legally non-binding Three Joint Communiques and the U.S. government's proclaimed One-China policy (which differs from the PRC's interpretation of its one-China principle).
“Why have we never sold nuclear weapons to Taiwan?”
Big money from cheap slave labor.
We have become so dependent that an immediate break from China may lead to full economic collapse here
I doubt it.
Good God I hope we never send American men and women to die for Taiwan.
Good question. Our own government slept through the years from 1990 to about now.
China is like a pet cat. Being nice is just an act to get food, if they were bigger, they’d eat you.
[CCP has become more bellicose since Xi arranged to get himself named president for life, further consolidating the identification of the Party and the government. It appears he has calculated that this is a time for decisive aggressive initiatives in several domains, following the Party’s holistic approach of a unified mission on all fronts, economic, military, diplomatic, and more.]
China is getting away with crushing HK, so Taiwan is next.
For 30 years, EVERYONE in America’s leadership, has been full-on sold out to China.
Everyone. Both parties.
Thirty years.
Oddly, I read somewhere that Xi had initially been a compromise candidate between different factions, and wasn't seen as a particularly strong executive. And, that that's one of the reasons he achieved the premier-ship.
Bad call, if that was true.
There is nothing peaceful about power, control, and manipulation; all of these concepts are part of the "Thirty year plan".
If you want to think "peaceful", China is the last thing that comes to mind !
- Souring relationship with USA,
- Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan right there with us,
- Deteriorating situation on the border with a billion Indians,
- Rubbing Australia and Indonesia the wrong way,
- A Vietnam that would love to spar with them while ROC is distracted,
- Even the Euroweenies are not in the best of terms with them.
Correct that - should read: Red China
A close relative of mine lives in Taiwan. Has for decades.
Yep. Only President Trump being in the White House is saving them. It is all that is saving us too. Once the Communists, a/k/a,Democrats regain control its Katie Bar the Door and Heaven help the hindmost. For them and us.
[Oddly, I read somewhere that Xi had initially been a compromise candidate between different factions, and wasn’t seen as a particularly strong executive. And, that that’s one of the reasons he achieved the premier-ship.
Bad call, if that was true. ]
I think he will go against Taiwan first and Manila almost simultaneously to ensure access to the entire Pacific - without the Philippines he is bottled up, and Duterte has fallen inline with Beijing as of late.
What if we restored the treaty?
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