The United States has a very significant national security interest in ensuring that Taiwan remains a democratic and independent nation. If Taiwan falls to communist China, America’s credibility as the global bastion for democracy will suffer. Taiwan’s demise will also — after a few years of sanctions on China — encourage a massive recentering of global political relationships in Beijing’s favor.

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