News Analysis President Joe Biden’s increasingly public commitment to defend Taiwan from China furthers a trend followed by George W. Bush and Donald Trump, which increases America’s understanding of Taiwan as a sovereign and a democracy worth defending. Biden is extending this approach on a global scale. Through the Three Communiques of 1972 to 1982, and the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, America has been more than accommodating of Beijing’s 70 years of belligerence. Taiwan’s political diversity, and now democracy, represents the world’s only majority-Chinese country with successful democratic participation of its citizens. For that reason, it serves as a shining example of what China and Singapore, which are also majority-Chinese, could achieve if they turn from authoritarianism to democracy. Given the changing political landscape of the last 70 years, in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly powerful and belligerent, and Taiwan has evolved from authoritarian to democratic, …