
Challenging the Consensus on China with Jessica Chen Weiss
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The Pros and Cons of Xi Jinping's Intent to Invade Taiwan
Xi Jinping doesn't feel confident today that the People's Liberation Army has a credible military option to take Taiwan and hold the United States at bay. It's a very difficult military task to launch that kind of amphibious invasion, Particularly if you've never done one before. The challenges that trends in Taiwan politically look really bleak, particularly after her, his own actions in Hong Kong have really made that prospect of unification under one country, two systems just politically toxic in Taiwan.
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