Losing Taiwan to China would be a disaster for the United States, and Washington needs to do more for the self-ruled island’s defense, a former U.S. diplomat said. “If Taiwan falls into Chinese hands, Japan is totally isolated. It’s cut off. The [first] island chain is broken,” William Stanton recently told NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media. He added that Beijing would then use the island as “a base for dominating” the region. Stanton was the director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the de facto U.S. Embassy on the island, from 2009 to 2012. “We have huge strategic interests,” Stanton added. “If the U.S. doesn’t want to lose all of East Asia, the U.S. has to be involved in the fight.” The Chinese Communist Party claims Taiwan as a part of its territory and has vowed to take over the island one day, by force if necessary. For …
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