Why China won't invade Taiwan
Chinese Whispers
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The Risk Calculus for Xi Jinping
I don't think it would seem rational to the Chinese Communist Party to take that enormous risk, which we've just talked about going into Taiwan. It's a very big risk. Okay, they might, the PLA might win. But there's a good chance it would lose. And the consequences of that, I think, would be catastrophic for the Communist Party and for Xi Jinping. The degree of control that Putin has and the degree of autocracy far exceeds even what Xi Jinping has. So you have to consider the circumstances in which that sort of behavior might come about.
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