Are US, Island of Taiwan Inching toward an Explicit Military Alliance?

[T]he United States had itself rendered that alliance network more fragile.

Turning the arms sales into a talking point erodes Taiwan’s trust in the United States as its protector.

History has never witnessed a leader quite like Donald Trump — a mix of ignorance, arrogance immorality, brazenness, insensitivity and sheer stupidity.

It is ... inevitable that the direction the country is going in will have to change.

The challenge for Washington is no longer whether it possesses sufficient capabilities, but whether the political system can align those capabilities behind a coherent long-term priority.

[I]t is difficult to see how the Gulf nations would agree to sign the Abraham Accords and how the Accords could be a precondition to peace with Iran.