Taiwan, China, and the Chip War: Peace Through Strategic Reality

For more than seventy years, the world has lived inside a carefully constructed ambiguity. Taiwan governs itself.China claims it.America protects it—without fully saying so. The policy became known as “strategic ambiguity.” It also became increasingly dangerous. Because ambiguity works—until it doesn’t. Taiwan and the Origins of the Crisis In 1949, after the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. The People’s Republic of China controlled the mainland.The Republic of China remained on the island. Both claimed to be the legitimate government of [...]