Faced with China, "Taiwan is worried about the credibility of its American ally"

Barthélémy Courmont is a lecturer in History at the Catholic University of Lille.

He is also research director at IRIS and head of the Asia-Pacific program.

A fine connoisseur of Taiwan, where he lived for 7 years, he accompanied senatorial delegations to the Chinese province on several occasions.

LE FIGARO.

- In this new crisis around Taiwan, some claim that the United States provoked China, others that Beijing overreacted.

Who threatened whom?

If the United States had wanted to break

maintained on the question of the "

" for decades, Joe Biden would have made the trip to the island himself.

On the contrary, Nancy Pelosi's trip thrilled Washington.

This trip was not the occasion of any signature, no announcement, but looked more like a last stand for the Democrat, aware that her position as president of the House of Representatives could end at the end of the midterms.

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