Given the conduct of this current USG administration, it would not surprise me if they actually did start pushing all these asian nations to start developing nukes; it fits their destructive MO of wanting to burn the place down if they can't have it.Taiwan and Japan getting encouragement to develop nukes is also hilariously stupid. Neither of these countries will want to do that for obvious reasons I can't even be bothered explaining. If think tanks honestly are writing about this, they are filled with underqualified morons. Anyway, there's good reason China and Russia have never assisted with nuclear or missile development for any strategic state or potential proxy. One good reason is because no one wants to rock the boat so violently that it could come back to bite them in the ass or at least burn many bridges with nations they don't have any interest in offending and threatening indirectly.
Secondly, you have a cat lady in the President's office in taiwan; she has no stake in the future, only her ego for being remembered in history, and what better way to be remembered than the one who declared taiwan independence and/or martyrdom? Cat ladies like the "wuhan citizen reporter" have nothing going for them in life, no-one wants to fuck a baby into them so all they have to look forward to is a sterile existence of their corporate jobs. Small wonder they'd much rather choose martyrdom and death.
What i'm saying is that a confluence of
1) cat lady in taiwan
2) christian evangelists/race war white supremacists in the White House
means that a nuclear strategy event can't be ruled out.