Don’t Use the Ukraine Crisis to Inflate the China Threat

Don’t Use the Ukraine Crisis to Inflate the China Threat

It is doubtful that Beijing is poised to invade Taiwan or that it would assume that the deployment of sizable U.S. ground forces to Europe provided an opportunity to strike the island.

Michael D. Swaine is the Director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

J. Stapleton Roy is the former US ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Founding Director Emeritus, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.

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