Forsaking Taiwan?
Some key Cabinet picks bode ill for Taiwan in its struggle for independence from Red China. Obama’s intelligence czar, for one, doesn’t think the key island democracy is worth protecting.
In fact, Adm. Dennis Blair regards Taiwan much like the Chinese Communists regard it — as a nuisance. His exact words are more colorful. At a late 1999 Capitol Hill meeting, Blair told staffers that Taiwan had become “the turd in the punch bowl” of U.S.-Chinese relations, as Bill Gertz reported in his book “The China Threat.”
China boosters Feinstein and Blair.
If Taiwan were to declare itself an independent nation, Blair asserted, “I don’t think we should support them at all.”
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