Opinion: Taiwan: Nancy Pelosi's last hurrah

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Hence China's growing confidence, and Taiwan's belated anxiety (an $8 billion boost to defense spending last January), and President Joe Biden's attempts to reassure Taiwan by making impromptu declarations that the U.S. would indeed fight for Taiwan (which are promptly walked back by Biden's staff).
47% : As cold reality dawned in Taiwan in the past year, that long decline has gone into reverse, but it would take half a dozen years of defense spending at 5 percent or 6 percent of GDP to acquire the weapons and capabilities that might enable the country to defend itself without help.

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