The Pushback Plan: How Taiwan Can Win Diplomatically Against China

Reuters
March 20, 2019 Topic: Security Region: Asia Tags: TaiwanMilitaryStrategyXi JinpingDiplomacy

The Pushback Plan: How Taiwan Can Win Diplomatically Against China

It would be short-sighted to judge Taipei solely on the basis of diplomatic bean-counting.

Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. He formerly served as the daily intelligence briefer to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs at the Pentagon. This piece is based on research recently presented at “Monitoring the Cross-Strait Balance: Taiwan’s Defense and Security,” a workshop hosted by the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.

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