Taiwan: America’s strategic confusion

In its policy towards China, has America gone from “strategic ambiguity” to “strategic confusion”? A responsible great power is expected to know how to rank its priorities. But does America have the means, and the will, to manage three virulent crises at the same time: with Russia, with China, if not with Iran?

The short but highly symbolic trip of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, to Taiwan, the third person in the state, is the perfect example of what not to do in international politics. He is the further illustration of what can happen when exceptional circumstances meet personalities who are not.

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