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Taiwan is the most likely reason that the US and China may go to war with each other. If it happens, it will be WW3 because when superpowers clash, many nations will be drawn into the fight whether they like it or not.
The big questions are: Why does the US insist protecting Taiwan? What are the US interests? Is it really about protecting democracy (Taiwan) from autocracy (China)?
This influential youtuber Nathan Rich has done an excellent job answering those questions. He did an in-depth research in the history of US-China-Taiwan relations and presented the evidences.
The answers to the big questions are:
REASON #1
The US wants to control Taiwan and uses it as a military base in case they have to go to war with China. Together with Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan is a strategic place for the US to contain China and prevent China from projecting power to the Pacific Ocean. Imagine how suffocated China would feel being surrounded by these US forces (below map).
This is an extract of a document by the US State Department (same as Foreign Affairs Ministry in other countries)
"This would enhance, from the strategic viewpoint, the potential value to the United States of Formosa (Taiwan) as a wartime base capable of use for staging of troops, strategic air operations and control of adjacent shipping routes"
(Source: Nathan Rich Youtube Channel)
(Source: ips-dc.org )
REASON #2:
It's never about democracy. The US can't obviously state the real reason #1 to the international community because it's too arrogant and provocative. But, they must have a reason and they have chosen "democracy".
This is an extract of a document by the US State Department (same as Foreign Affairs Ministry in other countries)
"Such intervention should be publicly based not on obvious American strategic interests but on principles which are likely to have support in the international community, mainly the principle of self-determination of the Formosan people"
(Source: Nathan Rich Youtube Channel)
Link to the video is here.
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