I never said the U.S. was likely to uphold their promise to prevent an invasion. The U.S. is however providing the Taiwanese with advanced military equipment. A

I never said the U.S. was likely to uphold their promise to prevent an invasion. The U.S. is however providing the Taiwanese with advanced military equipment. And their threat of defending Taiwan, no matter how hollow you judge it to be, is perhaps the only reason Taiwan is still an independent nation in 2021.