Stephen M. Young On Taiwan: Further musings on Taiwan’s fate, in the shadow of UkraineThe ongoing war in Ukraine, precipitated by the dictatorial Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has been a disaster of monumental proportions. So how do we apply the paradigm of Putin’s Ukraine misadventure to the island state of Taiwan? First, Taiwan poses a very different military challenge to the Putin model of aggression against Ukraine. Like the odious Putin, Mr. Xi has grandiose ambitions to rule all he surveys for the rest of his life. It is all well and good for Mr. Xi to ramble on about “resolving” the Taiwan question in his lifetime.
