Do You Really Want Your Deterrence to Be Credible?

Jude: It's hard to imagine a world in which a U.S. president is staring at a 5% hit to an instant recession and says, you know what, Taiwan, they didn't try that hard. They're really far away. It's not worth it. I mean, this comes to the key question of how credible do you really want your deterrence to be, right? Jude: If we have no allies in Asia, we don't really have much of a problem with China. A lot of the reason we are rubbing up against China is because we have our most trusted partners who expect the United States to be a key security provider.