Taiwan should defend Taiwan

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As usual, everybody is asking the wrong question. AFR.

The Trump administration’s undersecretary for policy, Elbridge Colby, is already leading a review into the AUKUS agreement between Australia, the US and the United Kingdom, and increasingly pushing for firmer commitments about how nuclear submarines would be used.

Citing five sources, the Financial Times reported that Colby had asked Australia and Japan what they would contribute to defend Taiwan from China.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.