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After Lai Ching-te was elected President of Taiwan on May 20, and then again after National Day on October 10, China conducted military exercises near Taiwan. These exercises – respectively called United Sword-2024A and United Sword-2024B – were conducted on a scale that was somewhat smaller than the exercises China put on in the wake […]
The Falklands War of 1982 holds several modern geopolitical and tactical precedents that apply to a potential conflict between China and the United States over Taiwan. In both cases, the contested islands are located near a continental nation-state aimed at reunifying such islands to the mainland, despite long periods passing wherein the island residents either […]