Politics
The fighting spirit
06/29/2024
Roger Berkowitz
Ian Buruma reminds us that world wars can begin in peripheral places. Buruma, like many today, fears that the next great war will begin in Taiwan. Reviewing a series of books on how to defend a democratic Taiwan, Buruma shows that potential supporters of Taiwan are calling not only for missiles and drones, but also for the emergence of a militaristic, warrior culture. Amid calls for a resurgence of the fighting spirit, Buruma reminds us of the nuance and complexity of history. He writing:
One can agree that Taiwan is worth defending against military aggression, but what is missing from all this talk of missiles, drones and fighting spirit is any sense of politics or history. The references to the past in “The Boiling Moat” are crude: Xi Jinping is compared to Hitler; the People’s Liberation Army is called “the Chinese Wehrmacht”; and the inevitable example of Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler in 1938 is invoked as a warning against complacency.
Politics, too, is reduced to slogans about defending democracy in the framework of “partnerships against authoritarianism.” In the concluding chapter, the book’s two European contributors write: “One cannot declare oneself neutral when it comes to the front line of freedom – in the Donbass or in the Taiwan Strait.” These are fine fighting words, echoing a statement by former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen: “The rallying cry of all democracies must be one for all, and all for one.”
He can be heard saying these words in “Invisible Nation,” a documentary by Vanessa Hope, which presents a simple argument for defending Taiwan's democracy. The film offers a short story, pitting the admirable Taiwanese (and Americans) against the menacing Chinese. This interpretation is not entirely wrong, but “Invisible Nation” has the air of a campaign film for the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, now in power in Taiwan.
History, of course, is never simple. Concern for democracy and freedom has not always been the reason for defending Taiwan. President Eisenhower found himself on the brink of nuclear war with China in 1954, after Mao attacked Quemoy (Kinmen) and Matsu, two tiny islands off the mainland that formally belonged to the Republic of China, while it was under the brutal military dictatorship of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
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