News from the Ukraine battlefront some 5,000 miles away has dominated headlines and airwaves in Taiwan—and spurred new interest in battle readiness
Self-ruled island is now paying more attention the possibility of a Chinese invasion, as U.S. seeks to reassure; ‘Ukraine is a revelation for Taiwan’
As tensions between China and Taiwan escalate, WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib examines the debate on whether the time has come for the U.S. to change its long-standing strategic ambiguity approach and openly declare that it would come to the island’s defense.
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