2/2: #Taiwan: Preparing in depth from Taipei to DC for the #PRC attack in order to blunt Beijing's war plans.. Michael Brown, Hoover Institution.
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2/2: #Taiwan: Preparing in depth from Taipei to DC for the #PRC attack in order to blunt Beijing's war plans.. Michael Brown, Hoover Institution.
https://reader.foreignaffairs.com/2023/01/25/taiwans-urgent-task/content.html
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS. I on the world with Michael Brown visiting a scholar at Stanford University's |
| 0:39.8 | Hoover Institution. He's the former director of defense innovation unit at the DOD. Michael |
| 0:46.4 | what is strategic ambiguity and are we in some fashion rejecting it, abending it, updating |
| 0:52.9 | it? What does it mean? |
| 0:54.3 | Strategic ambiguity comes out of the Cold War and basically says that if Taiwan were |
| 1:00.8 | under attack, our policy today is that we reserve the right to defend it. We're not |
| 1:05.5 | committing to defend it, but we reserve that right. Of course that comes out of the changing |
| 1:10.4 | nature of US Taiwan relations where the US supported Taiwan after the communist drove |
| 1:16.1 | Chen Ka-shek to the island. Then we reconsidered after Nixon went to China in 1972. Of course |
| 1:25.1 | China has one China policy which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong. Strategic ambiguity is |
| 1:32.0 | a way for us not to diplomatically recognize Taiwan, but have recognized the communist |
| 1:39.7 | party in Beijing, but say that we would reserve the right to defend Taiwan. Ironically, I |
| 1:46.6 | don't think while that policy does not serve us anymore, it's pretty clear we would not |
| 1:50.2 | want to abandon Taiwan. It's not in our interest to change the policy explicitly because |
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