Moreover, Taiwan is important because the political standoff with the PRC makes the Taiwan Strait one of the flashpoints in the Pacific, especially given the PRC's growing military might.
這其中，兩岸政治型態的對峙，特別是兵力越來越強大的中共，被認為是亞太地區隨時可能引爆戰爭的不穩定因素之一。