Given Taiwan’s geostrategic location as first in a chain of islands, if the self-governed island falls into the hands of China, America will no longer be able to project power in Asia, according to James Carafano, director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies.
“If the Communist China controlled everything in the first island chain, by force, from Taiwan to the South China Seas, that is a strategic blow to the United States, that really ends the United States as an Asian power,” Carafano said in an interview with “China in Focus” program on NTD.
