China poses a threat to Taiwan and aligns with Russia on many issues that harm America. So old agreements are due for revision to take into consideration today's realities:
President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that would allow U.S. officials to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts, a move certain to anger China, which views Taiwan as a wayward province.
The Chinese complained that this harms the "one China" policy that says that all of China, including Taiwan, are one entity that Peking should rule.
China doesn't mention the part about not using force to achieve that goal, which we've long insisted be observed.
Now that China has the ability to invade Taiwan (if it wants to pay the price, of course) and now that China no longer helps us contain Russia (and indeed, now that China is a long-term threat greater than Russia), I don't understand why America should consider the old deal written in stone.
Further, it was one thing to stand apart from Taiwan when China couldn't invade and when Taiwan was an authoritarian state.
But now Taiwan is a free and prosperous democratic state under threat from a one-party (and increasingly one-man) dictatorship.
Of course, official visits don't replace spending a lot more on defense which Taiwan still doesn't do given the scale of the threat Taiwan faces.
