Commentary I think it is more than fair to say that the United States does not have a Taiwan policy. Believing in strategic ambiguity, which is what many in the administration and lots of so-called smart scholars think is a policy, definitely does not measure up as one. In fact, if your strategic concept is ambiguous then you have no firm direction and no reason to execute any program, other than sit on a log and scratch your head, or whatever else you scratch. A policy implies one has a program that can be applied. In regard to Taiwan, there isn’t one. There is, of course, “guidance” in the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 (TRA). The TRA was a desperation measure by Congress after President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger decided to abandon Taiwan and embrace China. But what does the TRA do? In effect not much except for one key …
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