![]() ![]() ![]() As Japan has focused on its extended defense, Australia upon the integration of its forces with a capability also for the extended defense of Australia and with U.S. ![]() “Both the technology available to the United States and the policy shifts of core allies in the Pacific are enabling the forging of a deterrence in depth strategy. Taiwan needs to be part of the wider strategic effort of the liberal democracies to rework their defense relationships so that Taiwan is not an isolated tidbit to be eaten by the Chinese dragon.Įd Timperlake and I wrote about a possible way ahead along these lines in an article we wrote in December 2016. It will be the start of a major conflict, similar to what the Japanese did when they slaughtered the Chinese in 1938 at Shanghai. One way to avoid this is to convince the Chinese leadership that this will never be a clean quick takeover of people who live in a free democracy. There is a NATO-Russian war in Ukraine: are we going to see a similar war in the Pacific? ![]() Forget the “rules based order”: welcome the new authoritarian order. The Chinese threats are not about Taiwan but changing the world in their favor. It is not Americans: It is Filipinos and Japanese. Leaving aside the question of why the Communist Party ruling the mainland has any right to seize a free democracy, such a focus misses the question of who lives in the first island chain. Too often, the focus is upon Taiwan as a U.S.-Chinese problem or confrontation. ![]()
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