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The US must avoid war with China over Taiwan at all costs
The prevailing mood among Washington insiders is to fight if China attempts to conquer Taiwan.
That would be a mistake
- Lt Col Daniel L Davis (ret)
- The Guardian
Since last Friday, the People’s Republic of China has launched a total of 155 warplanes – the most ever over four consecutive days – into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone;
Ned Price said the state department was “very concerned”.
There have been more than 500 such flights through nine months this year, as opposed to 300 all of last year.
Before war comes to the Indo-Pacific and Washington faces pressure to fight a potentially existential war, American policymakers must face the cold, hard reality that fighting China over…