US Could Lose East Asia If Taiwan Falls to China, Former US Diplomat Says

Two navy soldiers raise Taiwan's national flag during an official ceremony at a shipyard in Su'ao, a township in eastern Taiwan's Yilan County, on Dec. 15, 2020. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images

Losing Taiwan to China would be a disaster for the United States, and Washington needs to do more for the self-ruled island’s defense, a former U.S. diplomat said.

“If Taiwan falls into Chinese hands, Japan is totally isolated. It’s cut off. The [first] island chain is broken,” William Stanton recently told NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media. He added that Beijing would then use the island as “a base for dominating” the region.