This year has witnessed growing tensions and escalations of conflict that can, at times, be described as avoidable. Russia’s incursion into neighboring Ukraine, for example, has become a destabilizing force in ways that were not clear for both opponents and proponents of Russia’s actions. Another potentially dangerous incident this year in August was the visit to Taiwan by the third most powerful political figure in the United States of America (USA). This trip to Taiwan by the US Speaker of the House of Representatives has been widely criticized as utterly provocative to China and perhaps unnecessary. The purpose of that visit did not appear to propose a mutually beneficial peace between Taiwan and China. For now, China has resolved to remind he world – and Taiwan- of its military force but without surging into Taiwanese territory as Russia did in Ukraine. Taiwan and China are neighbours in the same way Ukraine and Russia are neighbours. Further, […]
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