Alternative headline: "US is helping Taiwan protect from an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion by an unhinged dictatorial regime" Of course it would be naïve

Alternative headline: "US is helping Taiwan protect from an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion by an unhinged dictatorial regime" Of course it would be naïve to think there aren't also some more self-serving geo-political interests at play here, but this is really what it comes down to.