Trump Administration Wants Japan and Australia to Clarify their Positions Over a Contingency with Taiwan
The Pentagon is putting both the Japanese and the Australians in a difficult spot because it is in both countries interest to keep things ambiguous considering their business ties to China. It is even more complicated for Japan considering their pacifist constitution. However any conflict with China will likely lead to U.S. bases in Japan being attacked that would draw the Japanese into the conflict regardless:
The Pentagon is urging Japan to make clear the role it would play in the event of a U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan, a media report said Saturday, with the U.S. Defense Department’s No. 3 official later appearing to confirm the push.
U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby has been broaching the sensitive issue in meetings with Japanese and Australian officials in recent months, the Financial Times (FT) quoted unidentified sources as saying.
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Best for everyone to know, and agree on, the plan before anyone needs to use it…
This is very simple.
As soon as TSMC’s fab opens in America so there is a supply of Nvidia chips that America controls, Taiwan becomes competition and a liability.
Supply it with weapons and let China attack.
In the end, China gets ruins, it was very expensive to get them, and America fills Taiwan’s place.
Australia and Japan only need to donate weapons and supplies while making a big show of standing with the global rules-based order against the unprovoked aggression of communist tyranny.
They also need to help lead the global boycott and support the sanctions designed to destroy China’s export economy and import supply chains.
Agreed. So why hasn’t Trump’s America come clear on this question? Trump has hinted, he would sit this one out because Taiwan is not worth his time. Now you’re demanding answers from your allies? STFU.