INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A US war in the Middle East could leave its armed forces stretched too thin to respond swiftly to a Taiwan Strait crisis, analysts on the
island warned after the US launched multiple precision strikes on nuclear-related sites in Iran on the weekend.
While US President Donald
Trump was quick to describe the operation as a “very successful attack”, defence analysts and lawmakers in Taipei suggested that
American attention could be diverted from the Taiwan Strait.
Their core concern: that the...
