re: Why don't we give Taiwan a few Nukes

I’m struggling to think of a worse idea than shipping nukes to Taiwan. You know, the country that operated as a de facto military junta for most of its existence.

It would do nothing whatsoever to deter anything that China wants to do, and would only make the United States look (even more) hypocritical.

It would give russia, China, etc free reign to proliferate their nukes whereever they wanted and oh yea, it would start world war three in the Taiwan strait.