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What is the U.S. policy of 'strategic ambiguity' towards Taiwan?

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I know some people who have spent their entire lives in "strategic ambiguity."

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I don't think it matters much what a President says or doesn't say. The US Congress is what matters and support for Taiwan is ironclad among Republicans and Democrats in both houses. Woe to the US President who fails to come to Taiwan's aid were China to invade.

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As long as Winnie the Pooh wants his honey and China is running out, he will get his honey somewhere else, like Taiwan.

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The only way USA could stop China reuniting Taiwan by force is by using nukes. We could say goodbye to 5000 years of Chinese civilization and 400 years of USA civilization. Civilization in Japan, Korea, Mongolia, most of SE Asia, parts of India ,Pakistan and Mexico would be in mortal danger. Canada would be gone.

Taiwan is considered to be part of China by almost every country representing over 95% of the global population. Lets hope they can sort their differences out peacefully but if not, it would hardly be the first time in history, especially over the last 30 years, regimes have been overthrown by force.

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The only way USA could stop China reuniting Taiwan by force is by using nukes. 

Nope. The required build up of forces at Chinese ports will take time and be painfully obvious. The US can lay mines from a distance using JDAM like wing kits on air droppable sea mines Any aircraft that can drop bombs can lay sea mines. US and Taiwanese forces could put an awful lot of mines in the strait. Mine clearance is slow work and that would slow down a Chinese invasion massively giving air and missile forces time to attack the landing force at sea. Taiwanese forces have lots and lots of rockets that and other munitions that can make a landing beach a killing zone. Anti ship missiles can engage their landing ships long before they can get close enough to deploy troops. Kill enough of the landing force in the water and the invasion fails. The US Marines no longer plan on the kinds of massive beach landings we saw in WWII. Those are not survivable today against modern weapons. Too much of the landing force would be lost to make the assault a success. It would be no different for the Chinese. Modern cruise missiles can literally hit landing force ships that are still in port in China.

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I know, let's make up some story about WMD in China. It worked great in the past many times.

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What is the U.S. policy of 'strategic ambiguity' towards Taiwan?

It is called incompetence. Everything the current regime in Washington touches gets mishandled, including the Taiwan situation.

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The only problem with this analysis is “Strategic Ambiguity” predates this administration by decades. Don’t let that stop you, though.

Biden promised, but given his 48 years of troubled political history, I just don’t believe this guy.

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I hope all these world leaders get their act together. I don't want any future generation, especially the kids, to live through a world war like my grandparents did. And next time, it will not be only two cities that are atom bombed.

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Taiwan is considered to be part of China by almost every country representing over 95% of the global population

And yet the populations themselves consider Taiwan to be separate and independent. You confuse business with governments to opinions of the populations. I do not know of anyone I have ever met who considers Taiwan to be part of CCP China.

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What is the U.S. policy of 'strategic ambiguity' towards Taiwan?

It is called incompetence. 

It has been US policy since 1979 when Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act shortly after the US and PRC established formal diplomatic relations. So there is no official change in US policy but the slip on Mr. Biden's part let the Chinese know how the US really thinks. in any event, if Mr. Biden balked at defending Taiwan, which I seriously doubt, Congress would boot him in a minute so broad and deep is the support for Taiwan among members of Congress from both parties.

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For about the next ten years, China will not be able to best the USA militarily in a battle for Taiwan. After ten years, all bets are off. The Taiwanese themselves will have to make it clear to the Chinese dictator that they will fight to the death to preserve their independence. The battle for Taiwan may be more costly than what it is worth to own it.

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Why doesn’t the US make a pretext of something or other and invade Taiwan?

It worked with Iraq,didn’t it?

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