Commentary: Why Taiwan matters to the world

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A dangerous rise in tensions with Beijing is a price worth paying to protect a flourishing Asian democracy, says Gideon Rachman for the Financial Times.

In reality, few expect European militaries to get directly involved in a conflict over Taiwan. But the attitudes of European politicians such as Macron matter, since they will affect Chinese calculations of the economic and diplomatic costs of any attack.

The Chinese Communist Party argues that one-party rule is the perfect system for China. The US, it insists, should stop trying to promote liberal, democratic values - which are not working well in the West and which would spell disaster for a communitarian culture such as China’s. Beijing has already crushed aspirations for democracy in Hong Kong. If Xi Jinping were allowed to do the same in Taiwan, autocracy would be entrenched across the Chinese-speaking world.

The idea that mainland China will one day embrace political freedom remains a distant prospect. But the Indo-Pacific region as a whole has several thriving democracies including Japan, South Korea and Australia. They all depend to some extent on a security guarantee from the US.

 

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根據1971年在聯合國通過的憲法第2758號決議,中華民國被中華人民共和國了。

Really? if Taiwan matters to the world how come until today only 13 country recognise rot instead of the rest? The world only consist of 13 country? Ops should be roc

Small states like SG must fully be on board with Tw independence. What China do to Tw it can do to sg and other small states in the region .

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