We should support Taiwan's bid for independence from China by making sure the deal to sell American anti-missile defense systems, diesel-electric submarines and aircraft goes through.
Taiwan is a fledgling democracy and we should not allow a democracy to fall to the evil of communist aggression without lifting a finger. If we can deter Chinese aggression against one of our trading partners, and encourage the Chinese to come to a peaceful settlement, that would be even better. The best-case solution would be for China to unilaterally recognize Taiwan's freedom and independence from China. That will, of course, never happen. If it did, the entire world could recognize Taiwan's government immediately and establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Taiwan cannot beat China in an arms race, or in a war if Chinese shock armies and marines invaded the island. The Red Chinese numbers are too great.
By selling the Taiwanese the defensive weapons, we could possibly help Taiwan delay the Chinese onslaught and buy some time to come up with a diplomatic solution in the event that Red China ever did decide to take over Taiwan by force.
The Nationalist army settled on Formosa in 1945 after being driven into the sea by the Chinese communist armies on the mainland. This happened after the end of World War II and following a Chinese civil war. The Nationalists rejected communism as foreign to their way of life and fought for control of the mainland. They lost.
For us to allow Red China to take over Taiwan by use of force would be like Europe handing over Austria and Czechoslovakia to Hitler (in 1938-1939) in exchange for peace. I hope China's new leaders take advantage of the goodwill it would earn IF it forgot about conquering Taiwan and sponsored Taiwan's membership in the United Nations as a free and independent state.
Taiwan's latest bid to join the U.N. failed three weeks ago due to China's interference as it still clings to outdated "one China" diplomacy. There are two Chinas, one a communist superpower, and the other a struggling democratic nation that we should support.
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