[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Sprinter Observer [@SprinterObserve](/creator/twitter/SprinterObserve) on x 781.9K followers Created: 2025-07-12 22:38:12 UTC Trump under secretary of defense for policy Eldridge Colby has asked US allies in the Asia-Pacific theater to commit to the defense of Taiwan – a commitment the Trump administration has yet to make itself. 🔴 Sources familiar with discussions told FT that Japan and Australia have been “frustrated” by Washington’s approach, which a US official assured is designed “to intensify and accelerate efforts to strengthen deterrence in a balanced, equitable way.” 🔴 Besides promising troops for a potential conflict over Taiwan, Colby wants allies to get involved in “concrete operational planning” and military exercises, and to increase defense spending. 🔴 The US demand “caught Tokyo and Canberra by surprise because the US itself does not give a blank check guarantee to Taiwan,” one person said, referencing the US’s decades-old policy of “strategic ambiguity” vis-à -vis the island. 🔴 Colby’s appeal is said to have caused a “collective raising of eyebrows” among Japanese, Australian and other allied nations’ representatives.  XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [australia](/topic/australia) [japan](/topic/japan) [told](/topic/told) [taiwan](/topic/taiwan) [stocks defense](/topic/stocks-defense) [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) [Post Link](https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1944164415516860649)
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Trump under secretary of defense for policy Eldridge Colby has asked US allies in the Asia-Pacific theater to commit to the defense of Taiwan – a commitment the Trump administration has yet to make itself.
🔴 Sources familiar with discussions told FT that Japan and Australia have been “frustrated” by Washington’s approach, which a US official assured is designed “to intensify and accelerate efforts to strengthen deterrence in a balanced, equitable way.”
🔴 Besides promising troops for a potential conflict over Taiwan, Colby wants allies to get involved in “concrete operational planning” and military exercises, and to increase defense spending.
🔴 The US demand “caught Tokyo and Canberra by surprise because the US itself does not give a blank check guarantee to Taiwan,” one person said, referencing the US’s decades-old policy of “strategic ambiguity” vis-à -vis the island.
🔴 Colby’s appeal is said to have caused a “collective raising of eyebrows” among Japanese, Australian and other allied nations’ representatives.
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