While the leaders of the DPP are bent on independence, hostile to the PRC and very close to the US foreign-policy elite, the other two seek to develop understanding with the mainland and preserve the status quo. … The combined vote for the mainland-friendly parties, the KMT and TPP, was 58.2%. … How does the American political class feel about foreigners who die for the goals of the US? Here are the widely quoted words of the minority leader of the US Senate, Mitch McConnell: “No Americans are getting killed in Ukraine. We’re rebuilding our industrial base [for producing weapons]. The Ukrainians are destroying the army of one of our biggest rivals. I have a hard time finding anything wrong with that [italics added].”
He does not mention the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who are being sacrificed to “weaken” Russia, to use the phrase of the US secretary of defense. This disregard for human life is cruel and barbaric in the extreme. … As with Ukraine, a proxy war in Taiwan would be waged with “our bullets, their blood,” in the words of one Oliver North. In fact, the DPP government has already made a decisive step in the direction of turning young Taiwanese into US cannon fodder by extending the period of compulsory military service from four months to one year, beginning in 2024. That is the “blood” part. «
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