To counter China’s ever-increasing threats and the nuclear blackmail from N Korea and China, Japan, S Korea and Taiwan will have no choice but to have their own nuclear deterrences. It has been the US that has prevented them from developing nukes. Time has come for the US to permit and even aid these countries in developing nuclear capabilities to restore balance of power in the Far East and maintain peace. Otherwise it’s just a matter of time before Xi and/or Kim launch preemptive strikes.