What is Behind the Growing US-China Crisis Over Taiwan?

What is Behind the Growing US-China Crisis Over Taiwan?
The New Atlas Published October 21, 2022Show more

As the US wages proxy war against Russia through Ukraine, it is attempting the same process through Taiwan against China.

AHowever, there are some major differences that make America’s hostility and encroachment on China even more dangerous including the fact that even Washington, officially, recognizes Taiwan as part of China while openly arming Taipei’s administration, encouraging separatism, and even placing US troops on what is internationally recognized as Chinese territory.

Besides military tensions, economic tensions continue to grow as China is positioned to surpass the collective West economically. The US has responded with growing lists of sanctions and coercive policies targeting not only China but Washington’s own supposed “allies.”

The Chip 4 Alliance seeks to assert US hegemony over the global semiconductor industry but is instead producing a similar backfiring effect as US and EU sanctions on Russian energy exports.

References:

US Department of State - US Relations with Taiwan:
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-taiwan/
Guardian - Secret group of US military trainers has been in Taiwan for at least a year (2021):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/taiwan-us-military-trainers-china
Atlas of Economic Complexity (Harvard) - Taiwan:
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=249&product=undefined&year=2020&productClass=HS&target=Partner&partner=undefined&startYear=undefined
BBC - The farmers caught up in Taiwan's tensions with China:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63128392
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy:
http://www.tfd.org.tw/opencms/english/
US National Endowment for Democracy - TAIWAN FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY TAIPEI:
https://www.ned.org/taiwan-foundation-for-democracy-taipei/
Taipei Times - US group pressures Ma on TFD shuffle (2009):
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2009/06/21/2003446725
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - The Activist Legacy of Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement:
https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/08/02/activist-legacy-of-taiwan-s-sunflower-movement-pub-76966
Wikileaks - TSAI ING-WEN COMMENTS ON DPP TURMOIL (2005):
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05TAIPEI4870_a.html
Wikileaks - DPP CHAIRPERSON TSAI ING-WEN ON CHALLENGES FACING PARTY AND U.S. ARMS SALES (2008):
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08TAIPEI892_a.html
Wikileaks - DPP CHAIRPERSON TSAI ING-WEN ON CROSS-STRAIT ISSUES, JUDICIAL CASES, UPCOMING ELECTIONS (2009):
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09TAIPEI183_a.html
Wikileaks - DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN ON CHEN SHUI-BIAN AND PARTY POLITICS (2008):
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08TAIPEI1746_a.html
Wikileaks - DIRECTOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN (2009):
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09TAIPEI754_a.html
FT - US struggles to mobilise its East Asian ‘Chip 4’ alliance:
https://www.ft.com/content/98f22615-ee7e-4431-ab98-fb6e3f9de032

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