Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/24
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan
Taipei, July 24 (CNA) Taiwan should embrace “creative thinking” about what
Image taken from Hudson Institute’s website
the United States’ “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” strategy should be in six months if it wants to prevent statehood becoming a condition of entry, a visiting United States China expert said Tuesday in Taipei.
“If this is not done in the next six months, it’s too late, in my humble opinion,” Michael Pillsbury, a senior fellow and director for Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute in the U.S. told the Ketagalan Forum: 2018 Asia Pacific Security Dialogue.
Interviewed by reporters afterwards, Pillsbury, a consultant to U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, said that timeframe was given because Trump will deliver his second State of the Union address in January 2019.
The “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” strategy, as stated in the administration’s 2018 National Defense Strategy, seeks to expand Indo-Pacific alliances and partnerships to create a free and open Indo-Pacific region that provides prosperity and security for all. [FULL STORY]
