https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22405553\/taiwan-china-war-joe-biden-strategic-ambiguity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“No American president has had to choose whether to go to war to defend Taiwan against a Chinese military invasion. President Joe Biden might have the decision thrust upon him.<\/p>\n
The outgoing commander of US forces in the Indo-Pacific region, Navy Adm. Philip Davidson, told US lawmakers in March that he believes Beijing will attempt a takeover of the neighboring democratic island \u2014 which it considers part of mainland China \u2014 within the next six years. Davidson\u2019s successor, Navy Adm. John Aquilino, expressed a similar concern days later.”<\/p>\n
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“The four-stars\u2019 predictions aren\u2019t wholly shared by everyone in the administration. \u201cI\u2019m not aware of any specific timeline that the Chinese have for being able to try and seize Taiwan,\u201d said one senior US defense official, who, like others in the administration, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive foreign policy issue.”<\/p>\n
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“Experts I spoke to also felt Davidson and Aquilino\u2019s claims are too alarmist and may be in service of trying to boost defense spending for operations in Asia.<\/p>\n
But all agree that China is a more credible threat to Taiwan today than in the past. Beijing flaunts it, too. In recent weeks, China sent 25 warplanes through the island\u2019s airspace, the largest reported incursion to date, and had an aircraft carrier lead a large naval exercise near Taiwan.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,552,272,355,314,259,333,619,158],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-taiwan","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}