How the Taiwan Travel Act Could Start a U.S.-China War

On March 16, 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Taiwan Travel Act, which encourages “officials at all levels of the United States Government” to visit and meet with their Taiwan counterparts and to “allow high-level officials of Taiwan” to enter the United States and to meet with their U.S. counterparts, among other goals. The Chinese government has criticized the new law, describing it as a “mistake” and a violation of the One-China Policy. Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that “any actions and tricks to split China are doomed to failure and will meet with the people’s condemnation and the punishment of history.”
I posted last week that China may invade Taiwan [and don't think that they have the logistical capability to sustain an invasion- the US can project power globally indefinitely, most can barely project power outside of their borders for limited time.]

This latest controversy comes as China has begun exerting more military pressure against Taiwan. In recent weeks, China has increased air and naval operations in the vicinity of the island—including escorted strategic bomber encirclement flights—and deployed its aircraft carrier in waters near Taiwan, among other actions. This pressure campaign may be Beijing’s attempt to express its displeasure with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, or it may be a harbinger of a much more dangerous military campaign to come.

Whatever the motivation, Chinese operations around Taiwan will inevitably involve the United States, which is consistent with a historical pattern that has existed since at least 1950. In that year, President Harry Truman deployed the Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Strait. Explaining his reasoning, Truman stated that the future of Formosa [Taiwan] . . . should be settled peacefully [and] the mission of the Seventh Fleet is to keep Formosa [Taiwan] out of the [Korean] conflict.” Truman emphasized that the U.S. purpose was “peace, not conquest.”
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