What have we just witnessed in Taiwan?

IS EVERYTHING NOW JUST ABOUT IMAGERY WITHOUT SUBSTANCE? 

DOES ANYONE KNOW OUR TAIWAN POLICY ?

We just witnessed a lot of hullabaloo about House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, going for a visit to Taiwan. What was the purpose of this visit? Even Pelosi has not made it clear what was the goal of this trip. The pentagon and the state department have stated that Taiwan is part of China and our policy has not changed. Some Democrats and Republicans are talking like Taiwan is a sovereign country and we need to defend democracy at all costs. Is our China policy about to change? Are we going to encourage Taiwan to declare independence from China? Did Pelosi encourage Taiwan to declare independence? It seems no one know what is going on and there are indeed contrary messages being sent. Our foreign policy is disintegrating as we watch. Who is actually forming our foreign policy?

All this started when Jimmy Carter recognized the Chinese Communist Party as the only legitimate government of China and that Taiwan was part of China, this happened in 1979. Every president since has reaffirmed this policy, including Trump and Biden.

This would have all become irrelevant if Carter had declared Taiwan as an independent country in 1979 and recognized them as such. It is likely he was prompted to throw Taiwan under the bus because of the possibility of huge profits for American and international companies doing business with China. China at the time was a third rate military power and was in no position to challenge such a declaration. It is not the same situation now and China considers Taiwan part of their country and is not going to change its policy.

Now we are sending advance weapons to Taiwan, moving military assets to the Asia region and talking about our willingness to defend Taiwan from China. This signals to everyone that a policy change is coming. 

It seems the leaders in Washington seem to believe we can change the rules whenever we want and the threat of U.S. military might will just cause the other side to submit. The fact is, we cannot defend Taiwan against an all out war with China and our sending these unclear messages is creating a situation that is very dangerous to the people of Taiwan. Much like Ukraine the people of Taiwan are going to do the dieing, if this is just our effort to weaken China.

We hear politicians spouting that China needs our market or they will have economic collapse. So out of touch with reality. While they will suffer if they lose our market, we can say goodbye to Walmart, Target, Amazon and most every company in America, we will see an economic crisis beyond our comprehension. China will still have some alternative markets, but we will have little product left in this country.

This administration lacks any credible diplomats or real world negotiators. They believe the United States is the ruler of the world and we can impose our will on everyone without consequence to our nation. This may have been true, when we we were dealing with Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Kosovo and other week adversaries. It does not apply to Russia and China. Many people will suffer if this administration does not learn about its limitations very quickly.