The Middle East is a very problematic region to be involved in.

Whenever we try to "stabilize" the region, it ends up creating more problems, and making the region worse, let the Middle East resolves its own issues, they used to be fairly classically liberal at one point.

My stance on Hong Kong, and Taiwan is that these regions are a representative of a generally free, open, and prosperous society that have grown because they didn't have the same Governmental entity as mainland China.

Even if you argue that North Korea, and South Korea are one Korea, same in the case of Taiwan, and Hong Kong, while they "technically" are part of China, I feel like the world benefits when we hold The CCP at bay because of its massive, and prevelant spying infrastructure, and censorship with things like The Great Firewall.

While this is also true of The United States, I believe that Western Hegemony is better because The United States has armed citizenry.

Taiwan, I support in the short run because letting Microchip development fall into the hands of China would be catastrophic to global freedom but it may not be viable for The United States to defend forever, I support domestic production, and fiscal responsibility but its hard to say either way.

Overall, I see supporting those two as critical for The U.S. maintaince in the global power dynamic.