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Dave Troy :toad: (davetroy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 02:48:53 JST Dave Troy :toad:

📃 NEW: "Reality in Taiwan Differs from Perception in DC," my latest for Washington Spectator. While US media hints at an imminent war over Taiwan, the facts on the ground tell a different story altogether. Politics and economics, not war, are the focus in Taipei.
https://washingtonspectator.org/reality-in-taiwan-differs-from-perception-in-dc/
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  The Wide Angle: Reality in Taiwan Differs from Perception in DC
  
  from Dave Troy
  
  It has become an article of faith in Washington circles that conflict between China and Taiwan is a palpably real near-term concern. Most recently this idea has been given new life because funding for Taiwan is baked into the Biden administration’s massive $105 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — even though the total allocation for Taiwan in that bill is a mere $2 billion. Interested to learn more about the facts on the ground in Taiwan, I spent the first week of October in Taipei and, in a stroke of coincidence, departed for Seoul the afternoon of

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