EXISTENCE EXISTS

Donald Trump says America’s Taiwan policy has not changed. In one narrow diplomatic sense, perhaps that is true. But foreign policy is not made by formulas alone; it is made by signals, emphases, hesitations, omissions, and moral commitments. When the president of the United States discusses Taiwan’s defense with Xi Jinping, refuses to commit clearly to arms sales, and speaks as if Taiwan’s survival were merely another item in a negotiation with Beijing, the words matter. Pol