Only a few of the Republican presidential contenders know what they’re talking about when it comes to China.
went further than she has previously in signaling that she would send the U.S. military to defend Taiwan if China attacked.
“We will do whatever we need to do to defend Taiwan, much like we have done what we needed to do to defend Ukraine,” she told me. Ramaswamy says he would, as president, send the U.S. military to defend Taiwan, but only until 2028 when he promises the United States would achieve semiconductor independence. Ramaswamy’s kind of hawkish realism sounds appealing, but it promises the impossible, because four years is not nearly enough time to build an independent semiconductor industry. Haley told me that his proposal is not only unrealistic, but also reveals his misunderstanding of the problem, because it construes U.S.
, Ramaswamy was pressed on his suggestion that every Taiwanese household be given a gun, ostensibly to deter Beijing from invading. He defended himself by explaining this was only one part of his deterrence strategy. But his talk of “exporting our Second Amendment” to Taiwan is not only bad policy. It also reveals his ignorance of Taiwan’s domesticRamaswamy wants to coax Moscow into giving up its military alliance with Beijing by ceding parts of Ukraine, a deal Vladimir Putin would never strike.
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