Brahma Chellaney On Taiwan: Is US prepared for a Taiwan invasion? There are ominous signs that Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is preparing his country for a war over Taiwan. In fact, US President Joe Biden recently plunged the US deeper into the Ukraine war by permitting Kyiv to use American-donated weapons to strike inside Russia. More fundamentally, the drawn-out Ukraine war is crimping America’s China policy and weakening its deterrent posture in the Indo-Pacific, thereby making a Taiwan Strait crisis more likely. Indeed, the last thing Xi wants is an end to the Ukraine war because that would leave the US free to pivot to Asia.

Source: Taipei Times June 16, 2024 16:39 UTC