Military officials have been warning for months that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could be a turning point for the United States and its allies, which could determine the fate of the Asia-Pacific region for decades to come.
But U.S. lawmakers who traveled to the embattled island earlier this week in a further sign of warming—but strictly unofficial—ties between Taipei and the Biden administration said Taiwan has emerged as a front line for the emerging tussle between the United States and China for supremacy in another arena: vaccinating the rest of the world.
