China’s angry retaliation for the US speaker’s visit to Taiwan last week strips away the convenient diplomatic pretence of the One China policy. What comes next?
Nancy Pelosi has come and gone from Taiwan but the volatile chain reaction from her visit will keep building.with the US over everything from climate change to narcotics to high level military communication is only part of the detonation of any prospects of improved cooperation between the two superpowers.
The result of the Pelosi visit is a further destabilising demonstration of the limits and contradictions in the “strategic ambiguity” of America’s One China policy – also adopted by Australia and others – that has acted as a convenient diplomatic cover over decades. despite now urgent attempts to diversify supplies. But Xi Jinping, like Vladimir Putin, may be willing to damage his own country’s economy for a greater goal.
But rapidly accelerating anti-China sentiment in the US will also accelerate determination in Congress to immediately send more military equipment to Taiwan to try to deter China by complicating any direct assault.The People’s Liberation Army already practises missile strikes on mock-up Taiwanese ports and its incursions into Taiwan’s territorial waters and airspace have greatly increased in the past few years.
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