For decades, the United States has been able to project military power across the Pacific through regional bases, carrier strike groups, long-range aircraft and alliances. That posture helped sustain the regional balance of power and reinforced the assumption that Washington could intervene in a Taiwan crisis if it chose to do so. Today, China’s growing […]
The Shifting Balance in the Taiwan Strait
China is increasingly able to hold at risk the bases, ports and supply lines that underpin U.S. power projection around Taiwan.
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