Are we today crossing the Formosa Strait into a dangerous geopolitical phase that will remind us of the Balkan Europe phase of the early summer of 1914? Are China, the United States, and Taiwan now moving like sleepwalkers toward armed confrontation, as Austria-Hungary did against Russia’s ally Serbia after the Sarajevo attack?
We can ask ourselves the question when we see the unnecessary risky positions chosen first by the Americans and then by the Chinese.
Did American Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, really have to visit Taiwan on August 3, 2022, knowing that this visit would anger the Chinese Communist power? Was it not enough for the morale of Taiwan’s courageous democracy that Joe Biden assured in a press conference in Tokyo on May 23, 2022 that America would intervene militarily if the island was attacked by the forces of Communist China? then…
Source: Le Figaro
