China's move on Taiwan is all but inevitable unless Biden stops it
Joseph Bosco, opinion contributor - Tuesday
Deception and surprise are supposedly the stock-in-trade of China's way of war, as famously articulated by the legendary ancient sage, Sun Tzu. In the modern era, communist and erstwhile communist powers - China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, North Vietnam, Serbia under Milosevic, and Vladimir Putin's Russia - consistently have put that teaching into practice.
Of course, duplicity in the service of aggression is not the exclusive domain of communist powers, as the tyrannical raging of Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan demonstrated. But those powers are long gone, whereas China under Xi Jinping and autocratic Russia under Putin are, regrettably, still very much with us, as are their partners in international crime, North Korea and Iran.
So, Washington and the West, and those countries that rely on them - especially Taiwan - should be particularly on alert now that Beijing and Moscow have assured the world that all is calm in their regions and that talk of resurgent cold wars, let alone hot ones, should be put aside as historically outmoded thinking and self-serving histrionics. No doubt, Xi repeated that assurance to President Biden when they spoke last night.
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