#Trump shows his hand on Taiwan

“As more than one #China analyst put it this weekend, Taiwan is no longer at the negotiating table. It’s on the menu.

Reducing #Taiwan to a transaction also strips away the larger case for why any of this matters. America defends democracies. We defend allies.”

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Trump shows his hand on Taiwan

Trump's Beijing summit lowered the temperature. It also raised the stakes.

^{Elise Labott (Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott)}