John J. Tkacik, Jr. On Taiwan: Nixon: “What In Hell is the Taiwan Independence Movement?”
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Last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travelled to Beijing on a mission “to cool exploding tensions” (as the Associated Press puts it). The Secretary’s counterparts on the Chinese side aver — as they have for fifty years — that blame for exploding tensions is entirely with the Americans. And exploding tensions now, as … [Read more…]