Before taking office earlier this year, Elbridge Colby, the U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy, asserted that Taiwan should be “laser focusing on implementing a denial defense against invasion.

This was because, following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Cheney became an outspoken critic of Donald Trump. In 2022, when his daughter Liz Cheney was running for reelection as a ...