As Taiwan gains support from the U.S. by scrubbing off its Chinese identity, it's the dollar that's calling the shots. Taiwan's current leadership pays a fortune to fund extensively and opaquely multiple U.S. think tanks that bang the drum for "Taiwan independence." Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit last year caused a great furor. Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's party has kept splurging on PR companies to exploit the distance from the mainland and turn Taiwan into "a running dog" of the U.S.