The US kept the Republic of China afloat against the People’s Republic of China, and after #Taiwan could “stand on its own feet,” the #US continued to support the island because the Washington elite considers it an unsinkable aircraft carrier in East Asia, just as #Israel is in West Asia. An autonomous Taiwan is a link in the Pacific first island chain that is of crucial strategic military importance to the US, a pillar of US hegemony, and a loyal and good customer of its arms industry.
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Is that so?