If the US is willing to compromise even in a non-military standoff, imagine their willingness in an actual military conflict that emerges in Taiwan. This is no

If the US is willing to compromise even in a non-military standoff, imagine their willingness in an actual military conflict that emerges in Taiwan. This is not great news for Taiwan. Besides empty assurances, I am now certain that Taiwan is largely on its own. No nuclear armed nation is going to fight another nuclear armed major power.