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• The longer that the US-Israel war on Iran continues, the more that the discourse surrounding the war will start to absorb strategic tensions between the West and China surrounding Taiwan,...
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The longer that the US-Israel war on Iran continues, the more that the discourse surrounding the war will start to absorb strategic tensions between the West and China surrounding Taiwan, and indeed, this started almost as soon as the first airstrikes began a little over a week ago. Xi and Trump are still scheduled to meet at the end of the month, and Trump has reportedly delayed an arms package shipment to Taiwan announced last December, a move that’s seen as a way to cool things down a bit going into the summit.
While Taiwan is a nation of over 20 million human beings, in a world where resource wars are treated as a reasonable negotiating tactic, Taiwan = chips. Aside from its status as a bargaining chip between global superpowers, and inextricably related to that status, the most well-