Taiwan smart to respond with calmBy Collins Chong Yew KeatTaiwan has been under constant pressure from Beijing for decades, with increasing intensity since Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) ascension to power in 2013. Beijing’s coercive attempts to isolate and tie the hands of Taiwan, and to seek to cut off Taiwan’s international participation, can only yield greater resilience and hardened perceptions and sentiments of Taiwanese against Beijing’s tactics. It would invite Beijing to assume a risky and unproven posture, and venture into the conflict with early strategic missteps as it loses sustaining morale. Collins Chong Yew Keat provides analysis and opinion to international media on contemporary global and regional issues. His areas of focus include strategic and security studies, US foreign policy and regional conflict.
