The Island That Actually Matters to American Interests

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Nicholas Kristof

By Nicholas Kristof

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Taipei, Taiwan

While President Trump seemed to threaten military action this month in Greenland over a national security crisis that no one else could see, he has been nonchalant about a far more serious risk of war in the Taiwan Strait — in ways that elevate the peril.

Late last month, China launched missiles around Taiwan in live-fire military exercises that looked like a practice run for a blockade of........

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