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Should Taiwan Pay $40 Billion Annually for US Defense?

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Should Taiwan Pay $40 Billion Annually for US Defense?
Armed Taiwanese soldiers ride on motorcycles next to a U.S.-made CH-47 helicopter during the "Han Kuang" (Han Glory) life-fire drill, some 4 miles from the city of Magong on the outlying Penghu islands in Taiwan on May 25, 2017. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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On July 16, Bloomberg released the transcript of an interview with former President Donald Trump. Correspondents asked former President Trump whether he would defend Taiwan if it were attacked. A U.S. admiral in March testified that communist China will be ready to attack Taiwan by 2027.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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