https://taiwanstrait.com/tags/beijing-summit/ Recent content in Beijing Summit on Taiwan Strait Hugo en-us Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://taiwanstrait.com/taiwan-paid-for-the-war-in-the-gulf/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://taiwanstrait.com/taiwan-paid-for-the-war-in-the-gulf/ <p>The war in the Strait of Hormuz is ending. The accounting for Taiwan has not yet begun.</p> <p>Every resource consumed in the Gulf over the past weeks came from the same strategic account that underwrites deterrence in the Pacific. The aircraft carrier gap — no US carrier in the Pacific for more than two months — is not a logistical footnote. It is a signal. China read it. Taiwan felt it. The question now is what Beijing concludes about the durability of American commitments when a second crisis materializes in a different theater.</p>