Taiwan is the Only Democratic China

Why this is not Trivial in Terms of Security

Liberty Square, Taipei, Taiwan, November 9, 2017. Photographer: Duvda

Whoever reads the best documented commentaries on Taiwan in the global strategic order cannot but be struck by a form of ambiguity in the positions taken. Hardly anyone—except Beijing’s hardliners—considers the island a secondary issue to be sacrificed on the altar of so-called realism…