Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?

The Economist Feb 20, 2025 - 5.00am Save Share Copy link Copied Email LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Copy link Copied Share via… Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe now Already a subscriber? Login For Europeans at the Munich Security Conference, the talk was all about betrayal and "appeasement". President Donald Trump's looming abandonment of Ukraine raised fears that America was renouncing its role as the guarantor of European security. Yet, the earthquake in relations across the Atlantic seemed to cause barely a ripple in the Pacific,…