ack in the late 1880s German naval officers used to clink glasses and drink to “Der Tag!”, the day of reckoning with the British. Do Chinese officers make similar toasts with an eye on America, the country that has to be challenged at sea if an insurgent power is to make the grade? A heavyweight think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), warns that Taiwan is becoming the most dangerous flashpoint in the world for a possible war that involves the United States, China and probably other big powers. That might just be a bit of early-term alarmism (after all, plenty of other foreign policy crises are jostling for Joe Biden’s attention) but it’s certainly remarkable how little a Taiwan crisis is publicly discussed in the West given the earth-shattering bang that would follow from an armed showdown between Washington and Beijing.
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