To really understand today's tensions in the Taiwan Strait, we need to go back to a UN resolution adopted in 1971. UN Resolution 2758 recognized the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations and Taiwan is a province of China. Yet in the decades that followed, this principle was quietly hollowed out in the United States. The US has played a careful balancing act: acknowledging One China in words, while steadily eroding it in practice. Congress

If China were to make a military invasion of Taiwan, it might begin by targeting the Quemoy or Matsu Islands, much like it did in the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis. Miles Yu joins PolicyEd to examine how the responses from America and Taiwan reveal that defense treaties act as an effective deterrent. Learn more: https://hvr.co/42xXLHD | Hoover Institution