Biden Admin Vague On Whether Taiwan Part Of Palestine

“Ultimately it all  has to be about Palestine,” explained State Department spokesman Ned Price.

Washington, December 6 – The White House continued to maintain its diplomatically ambiguous approach to the status of the island where the Nationalist Chinese government took refuge in 1949 in the face of a mainland Communist takeover, refusing to indicate whether it believes the Republic of China off the eastern Asian coast represents an independent entity or constitutes part of a larger state of Palestine.

For more than seven decades, the US has withheld official pronouncement of specifying its attitude toward Taiwan, ever since Chiang Kai-Shek’s government fled to the island and continued to insist it remained the legitimate government of all of China. The US, which had until supported the Nationalist faction against Mao Zedong’s ultimately-victorious Communists, prefers to keep its options open in hopes of a reconciliation that will reunite Taiwan with the rest of Palestine.

“Ultimately it all  has to be about Palestine,” explained State Department spokesman Ned Price. “That’s the guiding principle of our foreign policy, in keeping with American foreign policy during the Obama administration, and to some extent the Clinton administration. Any Taiwan policy that does not have as its goal a One Palestine, whether it’s governed from Taipei, Ramallah, Gaza, Beijing, or Tehran, is a non-starter for the president.”

Republican administrations have also adhered to a One China policy, even if not explicitly, acknowledging the realpolitik of the Communist regime in Beijing as the legitimate sovereign on the mainland even as the US provides military protection for the democratically-elected government in Taipei, pending a negotiated, peaceful resolution of the decades-old dispute that would finally incorporate Taiwan into a sovereign Palestine. Mainland China – calling itself the People’s Republic – has made no secret that it regards Taiwan as merely a rebellious province of its sovereign territory, and aims to claim control of the island by whatever means necessary, unless Taiwan becomes part of Greater Palestine, an eventuality to which Beijing appears to give tacit acceptance, given the Xi government’s support for pro-Palestinian-expansionist regimes in Iran and elsewhere.

Diplomatic sensitivities, Washington’s timidity, and Beijing’s assertiveness have stymied Biden administration efforts to nudge the parties to the dispute closer to an amicable resolution. Earlier this month, legal officials in the administration warned the White House against a proposed move that would open an American diplomatic office to the Palestinians in Taipei, in violation of diplomatic norms that require the consent of the sovereign state in which the office sits, which is not Palestine, at least not yet.

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