Though we have a favorable impression of Vivek Ramaswamy, we hope that someone in the GOP debate tonight will draw him out in respect of Free China. For it’s hard to see what he was thinking when, the other day, he suggested that he would cut China’s only democracy loose after 2028. He couched this heresy in his vow to bring back the American computer chip industry that a generation ago departed our shores for the Republic of China on Taiwan.

“Xi Jinping should not mess with Taiwan,” Mr. Ramaswamy said, “until we have achieved semiconductor independence.” It’s his vow, as our M.J. Koch reported the other day, that bringing back home the computer chip manufacturing industry would take until 2028. “Our commitments to Taiwan,” the entrepreneur turned presidential candidate declared, “will change after that, because that’s rationally in our self-interest.”