Taiwan Flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific Region: ’Russian’ lessons for Xi Jinping?

With regard to the Russia’s wide-ranging invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a growing number of US military and foreign policy analysts are voicing concern that China may accelerate its enduring plan to take Taiwan by force at any cost. In 2021, the US Indo-Pacific Combatant Commander Admiral Philip Davidson warned that China might seek to achieve its reunification with Taiwan “in the next six years.” Catherine Yuk-ping Lo answers the question whether a full-scale Chinese military attack on Taiwan is imminent.

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Catherine Yuk-ping Lo

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Taiwan, China, Russia, Jinping, Xi, US, Indo, Pacific

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