Geopolitics
The Silent Subscription: How Washington is Trading Taiwan's Security for a Summit Schedule
The US has allowed $300 million in military financing for Taiwan to expire unused, and a $14 billion arms package faces an indefinite freeze as the Biden administration's diplomatic calendar with Beijing dictates policy through unstated delays and silences rather than public commitments. This reveals a craven and transactional betrayal where US support for a democratic partner in the Global South is being cynically bartered away in backroom deals, reducing Taiwan's sovereignty to a mere bargaining chip in Washington's neo-colonial economic negotiations with China.
