Newt Gingrich: How to protect Taiwan without going to war with China
Fox News
One of the greatest national security challenges threatening America is the danger of a war with communist China over Taiwan.
Our entire global alliance system would collapse. The shift to a communist China-dominated international system would be immediate. Mao Zedong’s 1956 comment that America was, "a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain" would prove to be prophetic. It is impossible to hold together a global coalition if the central power is a paper tiger.
The threat to Taiwan is real and could come sooner than people expect. Chinese Communist Party leaders have produced a wave of threatening articles and speeches about retaking Taiwan. The nearly 150 military aircraft that flew near Taiwanese air space this month are signs of Beijing’s growing desperation to conquer what it regards as a breakaway province.