Pelosi’s Taiwan visit and the limits of American strategy
It’s time for American leaders to stop framing international politics as a competition between democracies and autocracies.
It’s time for American leaders to stop framing international politics as a competition between democracies and autocracies.
The speaker said her trip “in no way contradicts” long-standing US policy. But experts aren’t so sure.
The “foolish” proposal would be the biggest change to U.S. policy toward Taipei in 40 years.
The leaders spent a lot more time on pointing fingers than discussing substantive issues like Taiwan and climate change.
Plans to further militarize the U.S. territory put the island and its inhabitants at the center of U.S.-China tensions.
From Beijing, the trip looks a whole lot like the US recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign state, experts say.
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