End of strategic ambiguity? Ukraine war shifts thinking on Taiwan.
While the world watches Ukraine, the Taiwan Strait may be heating up. More than 70 Chinese military aircraft have encroached on Taiwan’s air defense zone this month, including fighter jets and bombers. On Wednesday, China’s military announced a large-scale air and naval combat exercise around the self-governing island that Beijing claims as its territory.
The announcement came just two days after President Joe Biden pledged that the United States would come to Taiwan’s defense militarily if China attacks. The drills are a “stern warning” against U.S. military “collusion” with armed forces on Taiwan, according to an online statement by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
The rising tensions reflect in part how lessons from the Ukraine war are
