Dana Rohrabacher: “America is now facing a potential military confrontation in the Straits of Taiwan, or the Taiwan Straits as they are…”

“America is now facing a potential military confrontation in the Straits of Taiwan, or the Taiwan Straits as they are called. We should all come together, and that is what this piece of legislation does, to make certain that the Communist regime on the mainland understands that we are united in our opposition to any use of force by the mainland on Taiwan, and that the United States will respond militarily, if necessary, if force is used against the Republic of China on Taiwan. But this situation was a long time in coming. It was a long time in the making. Mistakes have been made, and let us quit making those mistakes. The official policy of this administration has been strategic ambiguity with the Communist dictatorship on the mainland. Ambiguity with dictatorships does not work. If anything is a lesson we should have learned in the past, it is that. The Chinese communists have mistaken our ambiguity for weakness.”