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US President Joe Biden’s trip to South Korea and Japan last month has strengthened the relationship with such US allies as Japan, South Korea, Australia and India to checkmate China’s hegemony in the Indo-Pacific region. The key plank of his policy platform is that the US would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan.
Did he misspeak? Not really.
Biden had on three previous occasions mentioned the US policy of military intervention on behalf of Taiwan. His trip to Asia provides an opportunity to showcase such a policy on the international stage.
Such a policy is not new. In December 2017, under
As the Soviet Union was collapsing in the late 1980s and Russia seemed to be starting the process of democratization, 36-year-old US academic Francis Fukuyama had the audacity to assert that the world was at the “end of history.”
Fukuyama claimed that democratic systems would become the norm, and peace would prevail the world over.
He published a grandiose essay, “The End of History?” in the summer 1989 edition of the journal National Interest. Overnight, Fukuyama became a famous theorist in the US, western Europe, Japan and even Taiwan.
Did the collapse of the Soviet Union mark the end of an era as