President Trump should increase the U.S. military’s presence in the South China Sea to counter a rising and increasingly belligerent China before that country’s territorial ambitions become unstoppable and make it impossible for America to come to the defense of Taiwan or other allies in the region.
The failure of America to take a stand now could risk a repeat of the lessons of 1938 when attempts to appease Hitler with the annexation of the Sudetenland opened the door to Germany’s invasion of Poland and then the whole of Europe.
