China is adding new diplomatic moves to justify its military threat to coerce Taiwan into submitting to rule from Beijing. In a formal position paper delivered to the United Nations last month, China declared that China’s sovereignty over Taiwan was guaranteed by the 1971 UN resolution that recognized the Peoples Republic of China as the…
Reports that a senior Pentagon official has been telling America’s European allies to stay away from the Indo-Pacific may be a sign that Washington will ask its Asian allies to shoulder more responsibility for countering China, according to some analysts. The report cited sources who interpreted the Pentagon’s No 3 as “basically saying ‘You have…
President-elect Donald Trump named Elbridge Colby as his next undersecretary of defense policy. In February, Colby said “disabling or destroying TSMC is table stakes” if China invades Taiwan. Colby made the same point in 2023, saying the US should never allow TSMC to fall into Chinese hands. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for undersecretary of defense…