{"id":1348289,"date":"2022-02-28T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348289"},"modified":"2022-02-28T07:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:30:47","slug":"taiwan-deserves-better-than-a-joe-biden-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taiwan-deserves-better-than-a-joe-biden-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Deserves Better Than A Joe Biden Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaiwan-deserves-better-than-a-joe-biden-presidency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tsai_Ing-wen_20170613.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As Russia continues its military onslaught against Ukraine, the impending threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan has also become a hot topic among foreign policy analysts in legacy media. <\/p>\n<p>For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made clear its intention to capture the island nation, with incursions into Taiwan\u2019s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) and threats of military force becoming more frequent in recent years. With the outbreak of war in Ukraine, however, there is growing concern that such long-held desires by China to forcefully annex Taiwan could materialize sooner than originally anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of Russia\u2019s blitzkrieg against Ukraine, the CCP has wasted no time in ramping up its propaganda efforts over its fictitious territorial claims to Taiwan. During a press conference last week, Beijing\u2019s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/asia-pacific\/595461-beijing-says-taiwan-is-not-ukraine-has-always-been-part-of\">declared<\/a> that \u201cTaiwan is not Ukraine\u201d when discussing comparisons between the two geopolitical flashpoints, while adding that Taiwan \u201chas always been an inalienable part of China\u201d and that such a claim \u201cis an indisputable legal and historical fact.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s state-run media has also joined in the fray, with Global Times commentator Hu Xijin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuXijin_GT\/status\/1496867274132578304?s=20&#038;t=38DEfeb_Xk6PIu2e5dV_iQ\">saying<\/a> on Thursday that Taiwan should \u201cget used to\u201d People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft entering their airspace, while also threatening that there \u201cmay be more PLA aircraft fly there [Friday].\u201d The tweet came in reply to a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoNDefense\/status\/1496837845092548609?s=20&#038;t=dbyIXTro8RRsk3rtKIej6A\">report<\/a> from Taiwan\u2019s defense ministry that documented nine PLA aircraft entering the southwestern region of the country\u2019s ADIZ.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a potential uptick in military aggression from China, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has taken precautionary measures to maximize her nation\u2019s regional and national security efforts. During a meeting with a working group tasked with overseeing the Ukraine crisis by her National Security Council last week, Tsai reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/taiwan-says-must-raise-alertness-over-ukraine-crisis-2022-02-23\/\">emphasized<\/a> that all military and defense forces on the island \u201cmust raise their surveillance and early warning of military developments around the Taiwan Strait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in the face of foreign forces intending to manipulate the situation in Ukraine and affect the morale of Taiwanese society, all government units must strengthen the prevention of cognitive warfare launched by foreign forces and local collaborators,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"joe-biden-s-weakness-invites-aggression\">Joe Biden\u2019s Weakness Invites Aggression <\/h2>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s the invasion of Ukraine or the prospect of military action against Taiwan, the ability of rogue actors like Russia and China to advance their geopolitical goals without fear of significant consequence can be traced back to the weakness of one man: U.S. President Joe Biden. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout his short tenure as president, Biden has overwhelmingly failed to institute a foreign policy that instills fear and uncertainty in antagonistic nations on the international stage, thus leading to a much more unstable global political climate. As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/22\/the-ukraine-crisis-is-a-direct-result-of-bidens-weak-foreign-policy\/\">noted<\/a> by Federalist senior editor John Daniel Davidson for instance, the current invasion of Ukraine can be directly attributed to the feckless approach to Russian aggression perpetuated by Biden and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he United States needed to have a firm, steady hand in its dealings with Moscow,\u201d writes Davidson. \u201cIn this, Biden failed miserably, coming into office with a lot of bluster about how he was going to take a firm line on Putin, that he alone knew how to deal with Moscow \u2026 The time to put pressure on Putin and declare that an invasion of Ukraine would be a \u2018red line,\u2019 has passed. Now, Biden is reduced to haggling publicly with our European allies over sanctions that will certainly be watered down given Europe\u2019s energy dependence on Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and willingness to leave his own country\u2019s borders wide open to potential foreign hostiles, Biden\u2019s weakness telegraphs to the world that America isn\u2019t led by a serious commander-in-chief who\u2019s willing to enforce red lines when needed. For countries like China, which seeks to dethrone the United States as a regional and global hegemon, Biden\u2019s four years in office are a political gift that permits them to fast-track and achieve objectives that were unattainable under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"taiwan-deserves-better-u-s-leadership\">Taiwan Deserves Better U.S. Leadership<\/h2>\n<p>For the people of Taiwan, the looming prospect of a Chinese invasion now threatens to destroy all that they\u2019ve built over their nation\u2019s history. What was once an island under strictly enforced martial law in 1949 has now become a fully-fledged democratic, capitalist society where the concepts of individualism and personal liberty are widely cherished.  <\/p>\n<p>With Biden sitting in the White House, however, such remarkable accomplishments are now at risk more than ever. As Biden continues to fumble the ball on major foreign policy ventures and exemplify weak U.S. leadership to the world, Xi Jinping and the CCP are likely to become even more emboldened to escalate their military activities in the Taiwan Strait and accelerate plans for forced annexation of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>With its sovereignty and safety under increasing threat, the very least U.S. leadership could do for Taiwan is to emulate strength and dominance in the face of Chinese aggression. Instead, Taiwan is left with an American president whose incompetence jeopardizes the free society they\u2019ve fought so hard to achieve.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a student at the University of Mary Washington, where he plans to major in Political Science and minor in Journalism. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action. 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