U.S. Officials Fear a Squeeze Play for Taiwan

“For years the deliberate ‘strategic ambiguity’ in Washington’s China policy has left unclear how the United States would respond to a full-scale, amphibious invasion of Taiwan,” the New York Times reports.

“But an equally hard question — maybe harder, in the minds of many senior White House and defense officials — is how to respond to a slow squeeze of the island, in which Chinese forces cut off much of the access to it, physically or digitally.”

“That question may soon be tested for the first time in a quarter of a century.”