What a Chinese Attack on Taiwan Would Mean – and Why It’s No Longer Just an Asian Issue
If anyone were looking for another place where ambitions, technology, the psychology of power, and the limits of deterrence are increasingly coming together, it would be Taiwan… 
If anyone were looking for another place where ambitions, technology, the psychology of power, and the limits of deterrence are increasingly coming together, it would be Taiwan. Not because war is inevitable, but because it is around this island that the willingness of the superpowers to take risks and what they still consider a "acceptable price" is being tested. While the war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed European and global thinking about power, and Venezuela provides a certain precedent, Taiwan represents another – and in many ways even more challenging – test of the world order.
Taiwan is not just a question of Chinese national identity…
