No need to panic about China aggression in Taiwan—yet

No government of Taiwan has ever seriously considered abandoning the sacred fiction that there is only one China including Taiwan. There is just a persistent non-violent dispute over which government is legitimate, Beijing or Taipei.
Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping will never rule out using force to ‘recover’ Taiwan, writes Gwynne Dyer.

LONDON, U.K.—“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we [the U.S. and China] will fight in 2025,” wrote Gen. Mike Minihan, head of U.S. Air Mobility Command, in a private memo two years ago. There’s still five months to go, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say tha...

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