I doubt DeSantis would make a coherent case why getting entangled in a territorial dispute between Taiwan and China is any more a pressing US interest than doing so re Ukraine and Russia - even in the unlikely event that he could. We have European allies who would be prejudiced if Russia got away with murder, and Asian ones who are threa…
I doubt DeSantis would make a coherent case why getting entangled in a territorial dispute between Taiwan and China is any more a pressing US interest than doing so re Ukraine and Russia - even in the unlikely event that he could.
We have European allies who would be prejudiced if Russia got away with murder, and Asian ones who are threatened by Chinese imperial ambitions.
DeSantis's main rival for the GOP nomination hasn't shown perceptibly more sympathy for countries like South Korea, Japan and Australia than he has for members of NATO. (Except maybe Turkey, which is run by one of his favorite dictators.)
The big difference seems to be that Trump has made a personal fetish out of insulting the Senate Minority Leader's Taiwan-born wife, whose family has important business ties to China. So I guess DeSantis wouldn't want to play second fiddle.
I doubt DeSantis would make a coherent case why getting entangled in a territorial dispute between Taiwan and China is any more a pressing US interest than doing so re Ukraine and Russia - even in the unlikely event that he could.
We have European allies who would be prejudiced if Russia got away with murder, and Asian ones who are threatened by Chinese imperial ambitions.
DeSantis's main rival for the GOP nomination hasn't shown perceptibly more sympathy for countries like South Korea, Japan and Australia than he has for members of NATO. (Except maybe Turkey, which is run by one of his favorite dictators.)
The big difference seems to be that Trump has made a personal fetish out of insulting the Senate Minority Leader's Taiwan-born wife, whose family has important business ties to China. So I guess DeSantis wouldn't want to play second fiddle.