"US-China Tensions Escalate Over Taiwan and Ukraine"

The possibility of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, drawing in the US and possibly other countries, could dwarf the Ukraine crisis both in scale and danger. The longstanding US policy of “strategic ambiguity” has helped keep a lid on cross-strait tensions, but the dynamic has changed radically with the rise of China’s president, Xi Jinping, to a position of supreme power and the advent of his aggressive approach to Taiwan and international relations as a whole. An American shift towards deterrence with teeth could help head off an Asian Ukraine – and is necessary and urgent.