> The US has a treaty to defend Taiwan against foreign aggression. The US does not have any such treaty. First off, the US doesn't have any treaties with Taiwa

> The US has a treaty to defend Taiwan against foreign aggression. The US does not have any such treaty. First off, the US doesn't have any treaties with Taiwan, because the US does not recognize Taiwan as a country. What the US has is its own national law, the Taiwan Relations Act, which is deliberately ambiguous as to whether the US would actually intervene to defend Taiwan.