
What Would Happen if China Invades Taiwan?
Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
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The War Game: How China Launches an Invasion
We wanted to get a large number of iterations so that we could explore a wide variety of scenarios and so that the results would be more analytically credible. There are many war games that are run once or twice but as an analytic foundation for making policy recommendations, it's very narrow because it's highly dependent on the particular scenario. We wanted to run it many times and have something that was analytically more defensible. And because you ran it many times, you saw several outcomes repeated which I want to spend most of this conversation talking with you through how a war might play out.
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