The Importance of Understanding the Culture of an Organization

Cato Institute senior fellow Eric Gomez says the U.S. is trying to rush a bunch of things through on Taiwan in order to shore up this idea that, yeah, we will defend Taiwan no matter what. "I think it misreads the serious challenges the PLA has internally in getting itself ready to do anything," he says. The goal for restraint-minded members of Congress would be to lasso out of control threat inflation and pull Washington's commitment back to at least the middle, Gomez says.