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Taiwan and the Thucydides Trap

With the tide of history turning, Xi has no need for a strategic error

Mar 27, 2023
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By: B A Hamzah

The accelerating pace of US and allied encirclement of China is generating debate among policymakers in Washington and Tokyo over whether a surrounded Beijing might be considering an invasion or blockade of Taiwan before its options are proscribed altogether. Beijing might be paranoid, as the saying goes, but it has plenty to be paranoid a…

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