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Article: Future war: Taiwan.
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Washington, June 10, 2013
IN LAST week's U.S.-Chinese war over Taiwan, the president was propelled towards conflict by strategic miscalculation, rather than a bold defense of a popular but geopolitically dispensable ally, according to a senior administration official. The president had hoped to repel China's rising bellicosity with a show of force, rather than the actual use of force. After Beijing responded by ratcheting up tensions in the Taiwan Strait, both sides feared that a subsequent climb-down would damage their global credibility and leadership, the official said.
In addition, Washington misread Taiwan's own perceptions of its national ...